Synonyms for tons
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : tuhn |
Phonetic Transcription : tÊŒn |
Top 10 synonyms for tons Other synonyms for the word tons
- a lot
- abundance
- acres
- agglomeration
- aggregation
- all kinds of
- alp
- amassment
- amplitude
- aplenty
- appreciable amount
- assemblage
- bags
- bank
- barrel
- barrels
- batch
- billions
- breadth
- bulk
- bunch
- bunches
- bundle
- bundles
- butte
- cargo
- clump
- cluster
- collection
- completeness
- concentration
- congeries
- copiousness
- crag
- deposit
- dome
- drift
- eminence
- excess
- expanse
- exuberance
- flock
- fullness
- galore
- gathering
- glob
- gob
- gobs
- great deal
- great quantity
- harvest
- haul
- heap
- heaps
- height
- hill
- hoard
- horde
- hump
- hunk
- jillion
- jumble
- large number
- large numbers
- legion
- legions
- load
- loads
- lot
- lots
- lump
- magnitude
- many
- many and then some
- mass
- masses
- mesa
- mess
- million
- millions
- mint
- mound
- mount
- mountain
- much
- mucho
- multiplicity
- multitude
- ocean
- oodles
- overage
- oversupply
- pack
- palisade
- passel
- peck
- pike
- piles
- plentifulness
- plenty
- plethora
- pot
- precipice
- profuseness
- profusion
- pyramid
- quantity
- range
- realty
- ream
- reams
- riches
- scad
- scads
- score
- scores
- shock
- sierra
- slat
- slathers
- slew
- stack
- stacks
- stock
- stockpile
- store
- sufficiency
- sum
- superabundance
- superfluity
- supply
- thousand
- thousands
- throng
- ton
- tons
- tor
- total
- trillion
- umpteen
- very much
- volcano
- volume
- wad
- wealth
- whole
- whole slew
- whopper
- zillions
Définition of tons
Origin :- late 14c., tonne, unit for measuring the carrying capacity of a ship, originally "space occupied by a tun or cask of wine," thus identical to tun (q.v.). The two words were not differentiated until 1680s. The measure of weight is first recorded late 15c.; the spelling ton is from 1530s, and became firmly established 18c.
- As in many : noun abundance; a lot
- As in mountain : noun very large hill
- As in much : noun a great deal
- As in oodles : noun a lot
- As in scads : noun large quantity,
- As in lots : noun great quantity
- As in jillion : noun heap
- As in million : noun heap
- As in multiplicity : noun heap
- As in passel : noun heap
- As in ream : noun heap
- As in scad : noun heap
- As in slew : noun heap
- As in trillion : noun heap
- As in amount : noun quantity
- As in heap : noun pile, accumulation
- Now, only 15,000 tons are made per annum by Leblanc's process.
- Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 » by Various
- Of acid it would take 60 times the weight of the gas, or nearly 76 tons.
- Extract from : « Flying Machines » by W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell
- One of 'em weighed twenty-one tons, and none on 'em weighed less'n five.
- Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
- These were schooners, salt droggers, of about sixty or eighty tons.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- She was of about two hundred tons burthen, but must have-been old and rotten.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- To-night we grapple for the heavy cable, eight tons to the mile.
- Extract from : « Heroes of the Telegraph » by J. Munro
- The keel was laid for a ship of thirty-five tons, to be named the Pilot.
- Extract from : « Cleveland Past and Present » by Maurice Joblin
- In two or three years business increased to a hundred tons daily.
- Extract from : « Cleveland Past and Present » by Maurice Joblin
- By the close of 1869, it is expected the product will reach a thousand tons daily.
- Extract from : « Cleveland Past and Present » by Maurice Joblin
- To produce this it is estimated that 225,000 tons of coal and coke were consumed.
- Extract from : « Cleveland Past and Present » by Maurice Joblin
Antonyms for tons
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