What's the difference between tom and ton?

Tom


Definition:

  • (n.) The knave of trumps at gleek.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Asked if Watson should seek to refresh his mandate after Corbyn’s overwhelming victory among members, McCluskey added: “Well, if Tom wants to try to refresh his mandate it would be interesting to see what happens.” Watson said it was time “to be proud of our party”, because the Conservatives were beatable and the prime minister, Theresa May, could call an election any time.
  • (2) But, in a sign of tension within the coalition government, the Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesman, Tom Brake, told BBC2's Newsnight that "if [the offenders in question] had committed the same offence the day before the riots, they would not have received a sentence of that nature".
  • (3) Keepy-uppys should be a simple skill for a professional footballer, so when Tom Ince clocked himself in the face with the ball while preparing to take a corner early in the second half, even he couldn't help but laugh.
  • (4) I was inspired by and, in this article, refer to videotapes of consultations and therapy sessions shown at an international conference on constructivism and family therapy in Sulitjelma, Norway, June 1988, and to written material from the Tromsø group (Tom Andersen and Anna M. Flåm), the Milan team (Luigi Boscolo and Gianfranco Cecchin), and the Galveston team (Harlene Anderson and Harold Goolishian).
  • (5) Roll-up man 3.50pm GMT Thank you to Tom Skinner for this educational and informative video .
  • (6) Tim Potter, managing director of support charity the Fragile X Society , adds that the challenges Tom faces in the film will give "hope and encouragement to many other families".
  • (7) What did surprise pundits was Hollywood's recognition of this unflinching Austrian film about ageing as a candidate for best picture, among such expected contenders as Steven Spielberg's Lincoln , Ben Affleck's Argo and Tom Hooper's Les Misérables .
  • (8) Fields said: "The assertions that Tom Cruise likened making a movie to being at war in Afghanistan is a gross distortion of the record... What Tom said, laughingly, was that sometimes, 'That's what it feels like.'"
  • (9) Two of Miliband’s inner circle – his director of strategy Tom Baldwin, and speechwriter Marc Stears – had suggested that the party seek out £3 supporters before 7 May in an attempt to engage people with the Labour party.
  • (10) Clinton met with Jane Dougherty, sister of Mary Sherlach, who was slain at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012; Tom Sullivan and Matthew Jenks, the father and brother-in-law, respectively, of Alex Sullivan, who was killed in the 2012 movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado; and Coni Sanders, daughter of Dave Sanders, killed in the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Colorado.
  • (11) The mean body temperature of restrained toms declined during the first 150 min of RE and then stabilized.
  • (12) The first controversy came in the 19th minute, when Bale tore into the penalty area on to Tom Huddlestone's through ball and felt Sebastian Larsson's arm in his back.
  • (13) I’ve never seen her draw herself as a boy, ever.” Unlike Tom, there was no single turning point when Callum became Julia.
  • (14) Britain is still sending regular reinforcements across the Atlantic, from the new Spider-Man signing ( Tom Holland from Surrey ), to the actors who have recently snatched real-life national archetypes like Abraham Lincoln ( Daniel Day-Lewis ), Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) and Martin Luther King (David Oyelowo ) from the grasp of American stars.
  • (15) At the tom insertion site of the sn9g locus, a host DNA sequence (T)ATAT was found to be duplicated on each side of the tom insertion and all other tom elements examined were also flanked by (T)ATAT.
  • (16) Ex-players fawning over Tom Brady and Peyton Manning.
  • (17) Chairman Tom Wheeler used to be president of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), Big Cable’s lobbying group.
  • (18) "Both the US and the EU have tried to shift the burden on to developing countries, arguing that they should even pay towards the costs of adapting to climate change despite their minimal contribution to the problem," said Tom Sharman, ActionAid's head of climate change.
  • (19) As committee member Tom Watson observed once the protester was arrested and normal service was resumed: "Mr Murdoch, your wife has a very good left hook."
  • (20) The drug pipeline is going to be slow, I’m afraid,” the CDC director, Tom Frieden, told NBC’s Meet the Press.

Ton


Definition:

  • () pl. of Toe.
  • (n.) The common tunny, or house mackerel.
  • (n.) The prevailing fashion or mode; vogue; as, things of ton.
  • (n.) A measure of weight or quantity.
  • (n.) The weight of twenty hundredweight.
  • (n.) Forty cubic feet of space, being the unit of measurement of the burden, or carrying capacity, of a vessel; as a vessel of 300 tons burden.
  • (n.) A certain weight or quantity of merchandise, with reference to transportation as freight; as, six hundred weight of ship bread in casks, seven hundred weight in bags, eight hundred weight in bulk; ten bushels of potatoes; eight sacks, or ten barrels, of flour; forty cubic feet of rough, or fifty cubic feet of hewn, timber, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) North Korea has produced tons of propaganda films that portray America’s destruction.
  • (2) On the other hand, if the world population grew to 1-2 billion fertile women, the million tons of contraceptive steroids needed would require an inexpensive total synthesis.
  • (3) The smaller spheres and some of the cylinders exploded and fragments and even whole cylinders weighing around 30 tons, were scattered over distances ranging from a few to up to 1200 m.
  • (4) For luxury brands like Gucci, Prada and Burberry it is a way to clear unsold goods under the radar and McKenzie reveals that while fashion labels "don't like us to talk about them", they "make a ton of money out of their outlet businesses".
  • (5) Science can say that if we burn another half-trillion tons of carbon the atmospheric content of carbon dioxide will go up by another 100 ppm and that will almost certainly lead to a warming of the planet greater than 2C, with major disruption of the climate system and huge risks for the natural world and human wellbeing.
  • (6) "I've had tons of support, loads of people are agreeing with the main point, which is the exhibition making.
  • (7) She would look 10 tons prettier with it natural, and the blonding just makes me think of Miley Cyrus.
  • (8) A total of 106 rodents sera from slum Wat Phai Ton and slum Klong Toey were examined by immunofluorescent antibody assay during May to August 1990.
  • (9) We have a ton of education out there about the merits and demerits of particular courses and institutions and it is not helping to inform decision-making."
  • (10) On the other hand, in the low-risk provinces (Tarapacá, Antofagasta, Atacama, Magallanes) only 2,550 tons were used.
  • (11) A French intelligence report shortly after the Ghouta attacks in 2013 estimated that Syria had “several hundreds tons of sulfur mustard, stockpiled in its final form”.
  • (12) The use of water to keep the reactors cool has led to the build-up of about 70,000 tons of contaminated water at Fukushima Daiichi.
  • (13) There are also tons of repair tutorials available on YouTube .
  • (14) One half of the hens in each study were fed layer diets containing Aureomycin at 100 g per ton for 1 wk during each 28-day period to monitor the effect on egg production.
  • (15) They're both super advanced machines with tons to offer, so in the end, it's down to personal choice.
  • (16) Türkiye'nin 2023 yılına kadar güneşten elektrik üretme hedefi sadece yüzde 5 Zonguldak’ta günde 400 ton soluk renkli külün boşaltıldığı dev çukurlardan birine bakan Orhan, kentin kömür santrallerinden birinde 26 yıl çalıştığını ve bu santrallerin kirliliğe neden olduğunu ifade ederek şöyle devam ediyor: “Bununla bağlantılı olarak bazı zorluklarla karşılaştım.
  • (17) Cycling the city: 'I have a dream that Jakarta should be like Copenhagen' Read more “Jalanku sekarang lebih bersih,” ujar orang-orang, tanpa memedulikan fakta bahwa 6,000 ton sampah dikumpulkan untuk kemudian dipindahkan tanpa tindak berkelanjutan ke bagian kota yang lain.
  • (18) Comparable establishment of S. typhimurium S192 was achieved in pigs receiving 20 or 40 gm of chlortetracycline per ton.
  • (19) 12.38am GMT E-mail Michael Aston knows how it will end: expecting a ton of gore….
  • (20) The amount of fluoride transported from the Maurienne valley by the Arc river was estimated to be 680 tons per year.

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