Tonne — meaning in English

English meaning

• barrel noun A large, round wooden or metal container, usually bulging in the middle, used to store liquids or other goods.
• bin noun A container used to hold or throw away items.
• buoy noun A floating marker anchored in water to warn of danger, mark a channel, or show a location.
• cask verb To store or age something, typically a drink, in a barrel.
• ton noun A unit of weight — roughly 907 kg (short ton, US), 1016 kg (long ton, UK), or exactly 1000 kg (metric tonne).

Senses

Tonne is used for these senses in English:

• barrel (countable) A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). The word is sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
• bin A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
• buoy (nautical) A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a navigational channel or for other purposes
• cask A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks. (See a diagram of cask sizes.)
• metric ton (chiefly, _, US) A unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms, about 2204.6 pounds avoirdupois.
• ton Any of various units of mass, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun, particularly:

barrel — full definition

1. noun A large, round wooden or metal container, usually bulging in the middle, used to store liquids or other goods.
2. noun A unit of volume, especially for measuring oil.
3. noun The long metal tube of a gun through which a bullet travels.
4. verb To move very fast, often in an uncontrolled way.

bin — full definition

1. noun A container used to hold or throw away items.
2. verb To throw something away.
3. verb To sort data or items into discrete groups or categories.

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