Ton

Definition

ton /tʌn/ n ၁။ [C] တန္။ (ၿဗိတိသွ်သံုး ေပါင္ ၂၂၄၀ရိွ တန္ရွည္ႏွင့္ အေမရိကသံုး ေပါင္ ၂၀၀၀ရိွ တန္တို ဟူ၍ ျပားသည္။ ) Compare TONNE ၂။ [C] (သေဘၤာ၏ ထုထည္ကို ၁၀၀ ကုဗေပလွ်င္ တစ္တန္ႏႈန္းျဖင့္တြက္ေသာ) ဆံ့ႏိုင္စြမ္းပမာဏ။ a 20 000-ton liner. ၃။ tons [pl] ~ s ( of sth ) ( infml ) အေျမာက္ အျမား။ They've got tons of money. ❍ I've still got tons (of work) to do. ❏ do a/the ton [ IDM ] ( Brit sl ) တစ္နာရီမိုင္၁၀၀ႏႈန္းႏွင့္ အထက္(ကား၊ ေမာ္ေတာ္ ဆိုင္ကယ္)ေမာင္းသည္။ He got caught doing a ton on the motorway. ❏ (come down on sb) like a ton of bricks [ IDM ] ( infml ) ပယ္ပယ္နယ္နယ္ႏိွပ္(ႏိွမ္)လႊတ္သည္။

Examples

1. The horse could pull up to 50 tons.
2. Transporting the coal costs £40 per ton.
3. A 40-ton lorry (=weighing 40 tons)
4. [ton of] : She put on about a ton of make-up.
5. [tons of] : I’ve got tons of things to do.
6. [weigh a ton] : That bag of yours weighs a ton!