Ton

(-) pl. of Toe.

(n.) The common tunny, or house mackerel.

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

(n.) A measure of weight or quantity.

(n.) The weight of twenty hundredweight.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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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• I am sufficiently well off to keep a hundred and fifty ton steam yacht, which is at present lying at Southampton, ready to start when I wish. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• The heaviest British gun at that time was of 111-ton weight. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Capacity freight engine, ten tons net freight; cost of handling a ton of freight per mile per horse-power to be less than ordinary locomotive. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The heating furnace and oil tank are served by a sixty-ton traveling crane and forty-ton jib crane. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• We may say then that this figure represents a 100-ton silo. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• The press is served by two 200-ton cranes with hydraulic lift and pneumatic travel. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Eight chambers had been left, requiring a ton of powder each to charge them. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I soon fell into the company of some Dutch sailors belonging to the Amboyna, of Amsterdam, a stout ship of 450 tons. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Capacity freight engine, ten tons net freight; cost of handling a ton of freight per mile per horse-power to be less than ordinary locomotive. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• These engines weigh as much as 31 tons, which is seven times more than the weight of the Rocket. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• To this plunger is attached a weighted case filled with one or many tons of metal or other coarse material. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Light cruisers are vessels of from 1,500 to 7,500 tons, used in scouting, as commerce destroyers, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Many tons of pins are made in the United States weekly, and it is said that 20,000,000 pins a day are required to meet the demand. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The steam-shovel did not discriminate, but picked up handily single pieces weighing five or six tons and loaded them on the skips with quantities of smaller lumps. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• To avoid this it is washed first in water and then immersed in a chloride of gold toning bath and fixed. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The boy drew his chubby face down to a formidable length, and commenced toning a psalm tune through his nose, with imperturbable gravity. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• It might justly be compared with a sketch which is all right as far as it goes, but which requires toning down and elaboration before becoming a finished work of art. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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