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Tons vs Tong - What's the difference?

tons | tong |

As nouns the difference between tons and tong

is that tons is while tong is tone, shade.

tons

English

Noun

(head)
  • (colloquial) A lot; a large quantity (of something).
    • I have tons of pens, but none of them work.
    I love him tons .

    Synonyms

    * a lot * a thing or two * loads

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    tong

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) tange'', from a Germanic root. Cognate to Old Norse ''t?ng'' (modern Icelandic .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands.
  • * 1998 , Alberdina Houtman, Marcel Poorthuis, Joshua Schwartz (editors), Sanctity of time and space in tradition and modernity , page 232:
    • these attributes are concrete expressions of God's care and providence and therefore not man-made. This explains the quite bizarre presence of a ‘pair’ of tongs' in some lists: in order to make a '''tong''' one needs a '''tong''', and how could the first '''tong''' be made without a ' tong ?

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To use tongs.
  • To grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs.

    • See also

    * tongs

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A Chinese secret society or gang.

    • See also

    * triad * yakuza ----