Crossword clues for tons
tons
- Great weights
- Thousands of pounds
- Copious amount
- Huge quantities
- Freight weights
- Certain cargo measures
- Massive amounts
- An awful lot
- Coal quantities
- Billions and billions
- A passel
- 8,000 pounds, for four
- 2,000-pound weights
- Weights for carloads
- Weight units for elephants
- Very heavy weights
- Fun units?
- Freight units
- A host (of)
- A bushelful
- 2,000-pound measures
- 2,000-pound loads
- 12,000 pounds = six ___
- Weighty units
- Weights that may be "short" or "long"
- Weight of the world
- Vessel displacement units
- Units used to measure carloads
- Truck loads
- Truck capacity units
- They're short in the U.S. and long in the U.K
- The Clash "The 16 ___ Tour"
- Tennessee Ernie Ford "Sixteen ___"
- Some cargo weights
- So, so many
- Short and long
- Really heavy units of measurement
- Railcar capacity measures
- Quintals upon quintals
- Mega quantities
- Many pounds
- Lots of pounds
- Large units of weight
- Heavy cargo weights
- Heaviest units I can think of
- Haulers' units
- Displacement units
- Clash's '80 outing The 16 ___ Tour
- Carload lots
- Cargo weight units
- Cargo calculations
- Boxcar capacity units
- Barge load
- A heck of a lot
- A buttload
- A boatload
- 6,000 pounds, for three
- 4,000 pounds, for two
- "Sixteen ___" (classic country/folk song about a coal miner)
- "16 ___" Tom Jones
- Scads
- Oodles and oodles
- Plenty
- Shipping units
- Oceans
- A bundle
- A good deal
- A slew
- Zillions
- Weigh station units
- Cargo weights, perhaps
- A huge amount
- Gobs
- Heaps of CDs
- A load
- Loads and loads
- More than plenty
- A lot
- Lots and lots
- Bunches
- Truckloads
- Atom parts
- Rafts
- Cargo measures
- A whole bunch
- A large number or amount
- Heavy weights
- Steel units
- A gazillion
- "Sixteen ___," Ernie Ford hit
- Quite a bit
- A whole lot
- Great quantity
- "Sixteen ___," Tennessee Ernie Ford hit
- Truck scale units
- "Sixteen ___" Tom Jones
- Large quantities
- Kin of oodles
- Great amounts
- Large amounts
- Cargo units
- Coal measures
- A large amount of cement on sale
- Lots going in contrary directions
- Very much
- Whole bunch
- More than enough
- Large quantity
- A bunch
- To a great extent
- Vast amount
- Quite a lot
- A great deal
- Vast quantity
- A heap
- Huge quantity
- Weight units
- Great quantities
- Lots (of)
- Cargo quantities
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of ton English) 2 (context colloquial English) a lot; a large quantity (of something).
WordNet
Wikipedia
Tons can refer to:
- Tons River, a major river in India
- the plural of ton, a unit of mass, force, volume, energy or power
:* short ton, 2,000 pounds, used in the United States
:* long ton, 2,240 pounds, used in countries such as United Kingdom which use the imperial system
:* metric ton, also known as tonne, 1,000 kilograms, or 2,204.6 pounds
- slang: for many of something, "there were a ton of people at the party"
- Tons (band), an American rock band
Usage examples of "tons".
I will authorize the use of federal funds to buy the futures for the expected surplus of fifty million tons of grain.
Now, this breaks down into goal targets of one hundred twenty million tons of wheat, sixty million of barley, fourteen million of oats, fourteen million of corn, twelve million of rye, and the remaining twenty million of a mixture of rice, millet, buckwheat, and leguminous grams.
The other sixty percent of the Soviet crop, nigh on one hundred forty million tons, comes from the great tracts of the Virgin Lands in Kazakhstan, first put under the plow by Khrushchev in the middle fifties, and the black-earth country, butting up against the Urals.
It was agreed in scientific committee that because the USSR, following the unfortunate damage through frost to the winter wheat crop, would need at least one hundred forty million tons of crop from the spring wheat plantings, it would be necessary to sow six and a quarter million tons of seed grain.
The production of the two hundred eighty tons of this chemical would take less than forty hours.
The two hundred eighty tons of new compound were all affected by the jamming hopper valve.
Can the Soviet Union survive for one year on no more than one hundred million tons of grain?
Even in 1975, their worst year for a decade and a half, they needed seventy million tons for the cities.
Maybe fifty million tons over domestic requirements for both us and Canada considered together.
It had also, paradoxically, sent the oil-tanker business into a seven-year decline, with millions of tons of tanker space partially built, laid up, useless, uneconomic, loss-making.
On behalf of the Soviet government he has proposed the sale by the United States to the Soviet Union by next spring of fifty-five million tons of mixed cereal grains.
Their own Condors and our offer to buy fifty-five million tons of grain must have told them what position we are in.
Even with probable requirements for domestic consumption taken care of, even with existing aid levels to the poor countries of the world maintained, the surplus would nudge sixty million tons for the combined harvest of the United States and Canada.
In his apprenticeship days, tankers had never gone beyond 30,000 tons, and it was not until 1956 that the world’s first over that tonnage took the sea.
But Komarov was forced to concede the imminent arrival of ten million tons of animal winter feed would enable him to release the same tonnage from hoarded stocks immediately, and prevent wholesale slaughter.