See metric ton in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for metric ton meaning in English (7.4kB)
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "metric tons",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "metric ton (plural metric tons)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "American English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant transliterations",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Khmer terms with redundant script codes",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant script codes",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
"parents": [
"Terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "SI units",
"orig": "en:SI units",
"parents": [
"Units of measure",
"Metrology",
"Quantity",
"Applied sciences",
"Mathematics",
"Sciences",
"Formal sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "metric fuckton"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion",
"text": "One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms, about 2204.6 pounds avoirdupois."
],
"id": "en-metric_ton-en-noun-jq~fK0~B",
"links": [
[
"unit",
"unit of measure"
],
[
"mass",
"mass"
],
[
"equal",
"equal"
],
[
"kilogram",
"kilogram"
],
[
"pounds avoirdupois",
"avoirdupois pound"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly US) A unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms, about 2204.6 pounds avoirdupois."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"often",
"proscribed"
],
"word": "ton"
},
{
"word": "tonne"
},
{
"word": "t"
},
{
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "T"
},
{
"tags": [
"uncommon"
],
"word": "megagram"
},
{
"tags": [
"archaic"
],
"word": "millier"
},
{
"word": "MT"
}
],
"tags": [
"US"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ṭunn mitriyy",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "طُنّ مِتْرِيّ"
},
{
"code": "acw",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ṭann",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"Hijazi-Arabic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "طَنّ"
},
{
"code": "br",
"lang": "Breton",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tonenn"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "metričen ton",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "метричен тон"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "公噸"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "gung¹ deon¹",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "公吨"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "公噸"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gōngdūn or gōngdùn",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "公吨"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "噸"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dūn, dùn",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "吨"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tuna"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ton"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "tuno"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "tonni"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tonne"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tonelada métrica"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tonelada"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Tonne"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "tónos",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "τόνος"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "ton",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "טון"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tonnellata"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "メトリックトン"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "グラムトン"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "トン"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "屯"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "taon",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "តោន"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "toon",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "តូន"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "tan metrik"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "tan"
},
{
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "ṭaṇ",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "ടൺ"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tona"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tonelada métrica"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tonelada"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "metríčeskaja tónna",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "метри́ческая то́нна"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tónna",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "то́нна"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tona"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tonelada métrica"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tonelada"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "ton"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "dtan",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "ตัน"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"singular"
],
"word": "ton"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "tấn"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Tonne"
]
}
],
"word": "metric ton"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "metric fuckton"
}
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "metric tons",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "metric ton (plural metric tons)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"American English",
"Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms with quotations",
"Khmer terms with redundant script codes",
"Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
"en:SI units"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion",
"text": "One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms, about 2204.6 pounds avoirdupois."
],
"links": [
[
"unit",
"unit of measure"
],
[
"mass",
"mass"
],
[
"equal",
"equal"
],
[
"kilogram",
"kilogram"
],
[
"pounds avoirdupois",
"avoirdupois pound"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly US) A unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms, about 2204.6 pounds avoirdupois."
],
"tags": [
"US"
],
"wikipedia": [
"Tonne"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"often",
"proscribed"
],
"word": "ton"
},
{
"word": "tonne"
},
{
"word": "t"
},
{
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "T"
},
{
"tags": [
"uncommon"
],
"word": "megagram"
},
{
"tags": [
"archaic"
],
"word": "millier"
},
{
"word": "MT"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ṭunn mitriyy",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "طُنّ مِتْرِيّ"
},
{
"code": "acw",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ṭann",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"Hijazi-Arabic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "طَنّ"
},
{
"code": "br",
"lang": "Breton",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tonenn"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "metričen ton",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "метричен тон"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "公噸"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "gung¹ deon¹",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "公吨"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "公噸"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gōngdūn or gōngdùn",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "公吨"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "噸"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dūn, dùn",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "吨"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tuna"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ton"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "tuno"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "tonni"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tonne"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tonelada métrica"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tonelada"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Tonne"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "tónos",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "τόνος"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "ton",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "טון"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tonnellata"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "メトリックトン"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "グラムトン"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "トン"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "屯"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "taon",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "តោន"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "toon",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "តូន"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "tan metrik"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "tan"
},
{
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "ṭaṇ",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "ടൺ"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tona"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tonelada métrica"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tonelada"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "metríčeskaja tónna",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "метри́ческая то́нна"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tónna",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "то́нна"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tona"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tonelada métrica"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tonelada"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "ton"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "dtan",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "ตัน"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"tags": [
"singular"
],
"word": "ton"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms",
"word": "tấn"
}
],
"word": "metric ton"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.