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  1. Ton
    Ton is British slang for a score or achievement of a hundred, especially a hundred miles per hour.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  2. Ton
    Ton is British slang for a score or achievement of a hundred, especially a hundred miles per hour.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  3. TON
    acronym: total organic nitrogen
    Found on http://cdiac.ornl.gov/pns/acronyms.html#

  4. Ton
    Ancient Measurement Terms: 20 hundredweight or 2240 pounds. The 'Long Ton.'
    Found on http://www.hemyockcastle.co.uk/measure.h

  5. Ton
    £100.
    Found on http://www.hemyockcastle.co.uk/money.htm

  6. Ton
    A derived unit of mass in the British system of units.Conversions1 ton (UK long)=1016.047 kg1 ton (US short)=907.1847 kg1 ton (UK long)=2240 lb1 kg=2.20462 pound (lb)ttle='Mass';xiunt='kg';yiunt='ton';mconv=1.016047e3;cconv=0.0; See also: Mass, Tonne.
    Found on http://www.diracdelta.co.uk/science/sour

  7. Ton
    Ton (tŏn), obsolete plural of Toe . Chaucer.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/67

  8. Ton
    Ton (tŭn) noun [ Confer Tunny .] (Zoology) The common tunny, or horse mackerel.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/67

  9. Ton
    Ton (tôn) noun [ French See Tone .] The prevailing fashion or mode; vogue; as, things of ton . Byron. « If our people of ton are selfish, at any rate they show they are selfish.» Thackeray. Bon ton . See in the Vocabulary.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/67

  10. Ton
    Ton (tŭn) noun [ Middle English tonne , tunne , a tun, AS . tunne a tun, tub, a large vessel; akin to G. & French tonne a ton, tun, Late Latin tunna a tun; all perhaps of Celtic origin; confer Ir. & Gael...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/67

  11. ton
    The prevailing fashion or mode; vogue; as, things of ton. 'If our people of ton are selfish, at any rate they show they are selfish.' (Thackeray) Bon ton. ... Origin: F. See Tone. ... A measure of weight or quantity. Specifically: ... The weight of twenty hundredweight. ... In England, the ton is 2,...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  12. Ton
    • (n.) The weight of twenty hundredweight. • (n.) The prevailing fashion or mode; vogue; as, things of ton. • (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, eig...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  13. ton
    unit of weight in the avoirdupois system equal to 2,000 pounds (907.18 kg) in the United States (the short ton) and 2,240 pounds (1,016.05 kg) in ... [1 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/t/60

  14. Ton
    Ton is a Welsh boy name. The meaning of the name is `name from legends` The name Ton doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Ton seems to be unique!
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/boys/Ton

  15. Ton
    $100 million in bond trader`s terms.
    Found on http://www.duke.edu/~charvey/Classes/wpg

  16. Ton
    A short or net ton is equal to 2,000 pounds; a long or British ton is 2,240 pounds; a metric ton is approximately 2,205 pounds.
    Found on http://www.coaleducation.org/glossary.ht

  17. Ton
    A unit of weight equal to 2000 pounds.
    Found on http://www.areforum.org/up/GeneralStruct

  18. ton
    British slang for 100, especially the sum of 100 pounds, a speed of 100 miles per hour, or a score of 100 in darts or cricket. The origin of this usage is not clear.
    Found on http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictT.

  19. ton
    ton: see English units of measurement.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A09196

  20. Ton
    The ton is a unit of measurement of the avoirdupois scale equivalent to 20 hundredweight, 2240 pounds or 1.016 tonnes.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  21. ton
    (mass) Imperial unit of mass. The long ton, used in the UK, is 1,016 kg/2,240 lb; the short ton, used in the USA, is 907 kg/2,000 lb. The metric ton or tonne is 1,000 kg/2,205 lb
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  22. ton
    (volume) In shipping, unit of volume equal to 2.83 cubic metres/100 cubic feet. Gross tonnage is the total internal volume of a ship in tons; net register tonnage is the volume used for carrying cargo or passengers. Displacement tonnage is the weight of the vessel, in terms of the numb...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  23. Ton
    Clay
    Found on http://www.edenwines.co.uk/Glossary_t.ht

  24. Ton
    The `ton` is a unit of measure. It has a long history and has acquired a number of meanings and uses over the years. It is used principally as a unit of weight, and as a unit of volume. It can also be used as a measure of energy, for truck classification, or as a colloquial term. It is derived from ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton

  25. Ton
    (le bon ton) The `ton` is a term commonly used to refer to Britain’s high society during the Georgian era, especially the Regency and reign of tɔ̃--> in French language|French). The full phrase is le bon ton, meaning good manners or "in the fashionable mode&qu...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton



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