Definition of Ton

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Definition of Ton

Ton

pl. of Toe.

The common tunny, or house mackerel.

The prevailing fashion or mode; vogue; as, things of ton.

A measure of weight or quantity.

The weight of twenty hundredweight.

Forty cubic feet of space, being the unit of measurement of the burden, or carrying capacity, of a vessel; as a vessel of 300 tons burden.

A certain weight or quantity of merchandise, with reference to transportation as freight; as, six hundred weight of ship bread in casks, seven hundred weight in bags, eight hundred weight in bulk; ten bushels of potatoes; eight sacks, or ten barrels, of flour; forty cubic feet of rough, or fifty cubic feet of hewn, timber, etc.

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Ton Quotations

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Tony Robbins

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.
Bill Gates

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.
Jim Carrey

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.
Eminem

There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.
Ron White

I have a ton of Holocaust stuff, and some of it is really hard core.
Sarah Silverman

Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
Samuel Beckett

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
Steve Wozniak

I wanna survive an avalanche. I wanna be one of those people a dog finds buried under a ton of snow, almost dying of starvation.
Tre Cool

Ton Translations

ton in Dutch is ton
ton in French is tonne
ton in German is Tonne
ton in Hungarian is tonna
ton in Portuguese is tonelada
ton in Spanish is tonel
ton in Swedish is ton = 1000kg

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