Won vs Ton - What's the difference?
won | ton |
(win)
To live, remain.
*1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), XII, xxxiii:
*:I long'd to leave this wand'ring pilgrimage, / And in my native soil again to won .
To be accustomed to do something.
The currency of Korea, making 100 jun in North Korea and 100 jeon in South Korea.
A unit of weight (mass) equal to 2240 pounds (a long ton) or 2000 pounds (a short ton) or 1000 kilograms (a metric ton).
A unit of volume; register ton.
In refrigeration and air conditioning, a unit of thermal power defined as 12,000 BTU/ (about 3.514 kW or 3024 kcal/h), originally the rate of cooling provided by uniform isothermal melting of one short ton of ice per day at 32 °F (0 °C).
(colloquial, hyperbole) A large amount.
(slang) A speed of 100 mph.
(slang) One hundred pounds sterling.
(cricket) One hundred runs.
(darts) One hundred points.
Fashion, the current style, the vogue.
* Thackeray
Fashionable society; those in style.
As a pronoun won
is he.As a noun ton is
lineage, ancestry.won
English
(wikipedia won)Etymology 1
* Past participle of (win), from (etyl) winnan.Verb
(head)Etymology 2
From (etyl) wunian. Cognate with (etyl) wonen, (etyl) wohnen.Alternative forms
* woneVerb
(d)Etymology 3
(etyl) ).Noun
(won)Synonyms
*See also
* (North Korean won) * (South Korean won) * (Korean won) * * , ch?n, jeon) *ton
English
(wikipedia ton)Etymology 1
Variant of .Noun
(en noun)- I’ve got a ton of work to do.
- I've got tons of work to do.
Synonyms
* (large amount) heap, load, pile * (one-hundred runs) century * See alsoDerived terms
* displacement ton * long ton * measurement ton * metric ton (tonne) * register ton * short tonEtymology 2
From (etyl) , from (etyl) tonus.Noun
(-)- (Byron)
- If our people of ton are selfish, at any rate they show they are selfish.
