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TONS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large number or amount
Example:
she amassed stacks of newspapers
Synonyms:
dozens; gobs; heaps; lashings; loads; lots; oodles; piles; rafts; scads; scores; slews; stacks; tons; wads
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("tons" is a kind of...):
large indefinite amount; large indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude)
Context examples:
Around 26 million tons of peppers were grown commercially around the world in 2007.
(Grafting helps pepper plants deal with drought, SciDev.Net)
And the World Economic Forum estimated that Americans threw away over 33 million metric tons of plastic in 2014.
(Researchers Discover Microplastics in 100 Percent of People Studied, VOA)
I soon fell into the company of some Dutch sailors belonging to the Amboyna, of Amsterdam, a stout ship of 450 tons.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
It is estimated there are 7,500 tons of trash in space.
(Australia Developing Lasers to Track, Destroy Space Junk, VOA)
Making it cheaper to do so could help the global community remove the 100 billion to 1 trillion tons of carbon necessary to avoid catastrophic global warming by mid-century.
(Scientists Turn CO2 into Solid Coal, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The water crisis currently facing the Central-West could be aggravated by the loss in the cerrado coverage, and the emission of greenhouse gases would reach 8.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide.
(Species native to Brazil savanna likely to face extinction, Agência Brasil)
Tomatoes are one of the most eaten vegetables—although they actually are fruit botanically—with a worldwide annual production of 182 million tons, worth more than $60 billion.
(Tomato Pan-Genome Makes Bringing Flavor Back Easier, Agricultural Research Service)
The ceiling of this small chamber is really the end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of many tons upon this metal floor.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And what will you do, Janet, while I am bargaining for so many tons of flesh and such an assortment of black eyes?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Every year, millions of tons of plastic enter the ocean.
(Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch Growing Rapidly, Study Finds, VOA)
