ton vs tonne
Definitions
noun
- a United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds
- a British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds
Examples
A few fields have the remains of small sunken stone dwellings, intimate as those at Skara Brae.
She also lent me a couple of Ben Elton books which were good, but not as good for relaxing as they have a whole dark seedy side.
Here we did everything but lift up the old-fashioned coal-burning Aga cooker, which must have weighed a couple of tons at least.
Definitions
noun
- a unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms
Examples
Just the tongue from such a mouth can weigh up to 4.22 tonnes.
Not content with appropriating to their own use the goods of others, they from mere wantonness spoiled what they did not use, so as to be of no use to the owners. deep waters -- that is, "limpid," as deep waters are generally clear.
The spacecraft's mass at launch was some 13 tonnes, most of which was the propellants unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) and dinitrogen tetroxide (DTO).
