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τόνος — meaning in English

tonos

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English meaning

  • accent noun A distinctive way of pronouncing a language, typical of a region, country, or social group.
  • ton noun A unit of weight — roughly 907 kg (short ton, US), 1016 kg (long ton, UK), or exactly 1000 kg (metric tonne).
  • tuna noun A large, fast-swimming saltwater fish prized as food.

Senses

τόνος is used for these senses in English:

  • accent (orthography) A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent, or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked.
  • 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:
  • tonos (orthography, and, typography) The Modern Greek stress-marking diacritic: ⟨ ΄ ⟩, written atop a vowel in a given word’s stressed syllable.
  • tuna Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.

accent — full definition

  1. noun A distinctive way of pronouncing a language, typical of a region, country, or social group.
  2. noun A mark placed over a letter to show pronunciation or stress.
  3. noun A detail that stands out and adds emphasis or contrast, especially in design.
  4. verb To emphasize or draw attention to something.

ton — full definition

  1. noun A unit of weight — roughly 907 kg (short ton, US), 1016 kg (long ton, UK), or exactly 1000 kg (metric tonne).
  2. noun Informal: a huge or overwhelming amount of something.

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