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ton — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • pitch noun A persuasive presentation intended to sell or promote something.
  • shade noun An area of relative darkness where direct sunlight is blocked.
  • teen noun A person aged between thirteen and nineteen; short for teenager.
  • ton noun A unit of weight — roughly 907 kg (short ton, US), 1016 kg (long ton, UK), or exactly 1000 kg (metric tonne).
  • tone noun The quality or character of a sound, especially its pitch, timbre, or emotional colouring.
  • voice noun The sound a person produces when speaking or singing.

Senses

ton is used for these senses in English:

  • teen Used to form cardinal numbers from thirteen to nineteen.
  • metric ton (chiefly, _, US) A unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms, about 2204.6 pounds avoirdupois.
  • shade A very small degree of a quantity, or variety of meaning
  • ton Any of various units of mass, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun, particularly:
  • ton (figuratively) Any large, excessive, or overwhelming amount of anything.
  • tone (language, dated) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm and a regular rise and fall of the voice.
  • tone (language, literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed, especially the aspects of diction (word choice), connotation, emotiveness, and register.
  • voice (grammar) A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.

pitch — full definition

  1. noun A persuasive presentation intended to sell or promote something.
  2. verb To throw, especially a ball toward a batter.
  3. verb To promote or attempt to sell an idea or product.
  4. noun The playing field used in sports such as football, rugby, or cricket (chiefly British English).
  5. noun How high or low a sound is perceived to be.

shade — full definition

  1. noun An area of relative darkness where direct sunlight is blocked.
  2. noun A particular variation of a color.
  3. noun A subtly insulting remark (often "throw shade").
  4. verb To block or shield from light.

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