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The synonyms of “Tons” are: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, wads
Tons as a Noun
Definitions of "Tons" as a noun
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “tons” as a noun can have the following definitions:
- A United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds.
- A British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds.
- A large number or amount.
Synonyms of "Tons" as a noun (14 Words)
dozens | A large number or amount. |
gobs | A large number or amount. |
heaps | A collection of objects laid on top of each other. |
lashings | A copious amount of something, especially food or drink. Chocolate cake with lashings of cream. |
loads | Electrical device to which electrical power is delivered. |
lots | A large number or amount or extent. Made lots of new friends. |
oodles | A very great number or amount of something. If only I had oodles of cash. |
piles | Battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta. |
rafts | A large number or amount. |
scads | A large number or quantity. They raised scads of children. |
scores | A number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student’s performance. |
slews | A large number or amount or extent. |
stacks | A storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO. She amassed stacks of newspapers. |
wads | A wad of something chewable as tobacco. |
Associations of "Tons" (30 Words)
abundance | Plentifulness of the good things of life; prosperity. An age of abundance. |
accumulate | Get or gather together. The toxin accumulated in their bodies. |
agglomeration | A mass or collection of things; an assemblage. The arts centre is an agglomeration of theatres galleries shops restaurants and bars. |
amass | Gather together in a crowd or group. The soldiers were amassing from all parts of Spain. |
armful | A large quantity. Most of us will end up with armfuls of stuff we do not need. |
bale | Make into a bale. The straw is left on the field to be baled later. |
bounty | Generosity. For millennia the people along the Nile have depended entirely on its bounty. |
bundle | Make into a bundle. A thick bundle of envelopes. |
caisson | Large watertight chamber used for construction under water. |
cluster | Form a cluster or clusters. Noble metal clusters supported on an acidic carrier. |
countless | Too many to be counted; very many. She d apologized countless times before. |
gram | A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram. |
heap | Form a heap. She heaped logs on the fire. |
inch | As a unit of map scale so many inches representing one mile on the ground. Eighteen inches of thread. |
liter | A metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints. |
load | Place a load or large quantity of something on or in a vehicle ship container etc. They go to Calais to load up their vans with cheap beer. |
lot | The choice resulting from deciding something by lot. He will need a second lot of tills to handle the second currency. |
many | A quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `as’ or `too’ or `so’ or `that’; amounting to a large but indefinite number. A good many. |
metric | Relating to or denoting a metric. It s easier to work in metric. |
ounce | A unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a pound. Robyn summoned up every ounce of strength. |
pack | A quantity of fish fruit or other foods packed or canned in a particular season. A pack of cigarettes. |
pile | Place or lay as if in a pile. The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested. |
plurality | The number by which plurality exceeds the number of votes cast for the candidate placed second. A plurality of critical approaches. |
pound | A symbol for a unit of currency especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain. Unlicensed dogs will be taken to the pound. |
ream | Enlarge with a reamer. He wrote reams and reams. |
sheaf | A bundle of grain stalks laid lengthways and tied together after reaping. The corn and barley had to be sheafed and stooked. |
stack | Fill or cover a place or surface with stacks of things. The new premises provided a reading room and a stack room. |
stacked | Arranged in a stack. Full sized washer dryers are replacing stacked units. |
unit | The smallest measure of investment in a unit trust. The team is a unit. |
weigh | Balance in the hands to guess or as if to guess the weight of. Weigh yourself on the day you begin the diet. |