Tonne — meaning in English
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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
- noun A large, round wooden or metal container, usually bulging in the middle, used to store liquids or other goods.
- noun A unit of volume, especially for measuring oil.
- noun The long metal tube of a gun through which a bullet travels.
- verb To move very fast, often in an uncontrolled way.
bin — full definition
- noun A container used to hold or throw away items.
- verb To throw something away.
- verb To sort data or items into discrete groups or categories.