Ton is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TON in dictionary:

RESIDUAL:
• (in units of measurement) tera- (10¹²)
• tesla.
• Thailand (international vehicle registration).
• (in names of sports clubs) Town
• temperature.
• the hydrogen isotope tritium.
• (in units of measurement) tera- (10¹²)
NOUN:
• a unit of weight
• the twentieth letter of the alphabet.
• denoting the next after S in a set of items, categories, etc.
• a shape like that of a capital T
• 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.
• a United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds
• a British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds
• unit of weight
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• pl. of Toe.

Words related to TON

tonish9 tonishly14 tonne5 tonnish10 tonnishly15 tons4

How to use TON in a sentence

• At last we climbed into two great caverns out of which they had taken the finest gold, nineteen thousand dollars to a ton of rock.
• More coal and more iron are required to move a ton of freight by rail than by water, three to one.
• Atkinson looked for him to reach One Ton Camp between March 3 and 10.
• The foundry has 16 moulding benches, an oven for core baking, and a blast furnace of one-half ton capacity.
• In addition, 50 cents per ton per mile was paid for hauling pipe, and extra compensation for setting valves.
• But the price per ton of his product was out of proportion to the expenses.
• It is a block of irregular shape 3 feet long and 2 feet wide, and about 1 foot thick, weighing probably not less than one-third of a ton.
• It was a very profitable business for the wood then sold at L25 or L30 a ton.
• Or, so to speak, the railroad that brings one ton of superphosphate from the seaboard, might, as the result of its use, have fifty tons of freight to carry back again.
• A ton or two of water was also procured from some holes in the rocks on the island.
• Government were to pay four pounds four shillings per ton for such stores as should be put on board, and for the convicts at the rate of twenty-two pounds per head.
• He could not have shown more satisfaction had it been a ton of gold or a lottery-ticket of twenty thousand sterling.
• At Liverpool it sells for no more than L4 per ton, the duty out of which is L2 per ton.
• Every available ton of shipping was accordingly taken up for Spain.
• We had above seventy ladies, all of the first ton in the State, and between three and four hundred gentlemen.
• Ton pere etait DICKENS, le grand romancier anglais.
• The circular represented a 7000-ton steamer ready to take on board the cargo of ammunition which was arranged neatly on the pier in the foreground.
• He, or his chief, has apparently not grasped the fact that buying a meal is not like buying a ton of coal.
• Holroyd, of Sydney, some time since, imported a ton of it for a friend near Bathurst.
• A ton and a-half the acre is said to be no uncommon yield.
• The imports of red Sanders wood from Calcutta and Bombay chiefly into London are to the extent of 700 or 800 tons a year, worth L6 to L9 per ton.
• About 1,100 tons are annually shipped from Naples, worth about L30 per ton.
• More than sixteen tons of silver are required as the equivalent of one ton of gold.
• If the Coal Barons, as they are called, asked ten dollars a ton for coal, we would still be obliged to use it.

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