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ドン — meaning in English

don

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English meaning

  • bang noun A sudden loud noise, such as an explosion or a hard impact.
  • dit noun In Morse code, the short signal represented by a dot (as opposed to a "dah").
  • don noun A senior member of the teaching staff at a British university, especially Oxford or Cambridge.
  • dong noun The basic unit of currency in Vietnam.
  • ton noun A unit of weight — roughly 907 kg (short ton, US), 1016 kg (long ton, UK), or exactly 1000 kg (metric tonne).

Senses

ドン is used for these senses in English:

  • bang A sudden percussive noise.
  • dit The spoken representation of a dot in radio and telegraph Morse code.
  • don A mafia boss.
  • 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:

bang — full definition

  1. noun A sudden loud noise, such as an explosion or a hard impact.
  2. verb To hit something hard, often producing a loud noise.
  3. noun In plural, a fringe of hair cut straight across the forehead (chiefly US).

dit — full definition

  1. noun In Morse code, the short signal represented by a dot (as opposed to a "dah").
  2. verb A dialect word (Scots and northern English) meaning to block or close up an opening.

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