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tonne Noun

— A tonne, also called a metric ton, is an unit of mass that weighs exactly 1,000 kilograms. It is a little different from the US short ton (2,000 pounds or about 907 kilograms) and the British long ton (2,240 pounds or about 1,016 kilograms).

tonne

— noun (= metric ton) a unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms

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This walrus weighs as much as a tonne.

We call her Two-Tonne Tessie.

She's bigger than Two-Tonne Tessie.

We made 10 runs a day up to a tonne of food, who could belive it.

All of them are air-breathers, like this eight-tonne Cryptoclidus.

The carnivore's own 150-tonne body is slowly suffocating him.

Tyrannosaurus, a five-tonne, 13-metre long carnivore, specifically evolved to kill other giant dinosaurs.

Giant reptiles like Tyrannosaurus, a five-tonne predator, stalk the land.

These impressive one-tonne beasts are not related to dinosaurs.

He has massively powerful jaws, weighs about half a tonne.

He is a one-tonne ambush predator.

That would be ideal for carrying a tonne of gold.

One tonne.

If you stood ten tonne weights on its roof, nothing would happen.

Doing 60 with a truck limited to 45 mph on a road limited to 15-tonne vehicles and to 30 mph.

A big two-tonne door.

But our mission does a tonne of evangelical work with several prisons.

Ocean weather around the Doria that can go from one minute completely calm and clear, to the next minute, ripping currents that can toss this 30,000-tonne ship like a toy.

More than one tonne.

One tonne?

You know them one-tonne utes with the coffee machines and the pie warmers and shit out the back?

If anyone feels he can move this platform weighing over a tonne, step forward now!

Or you will burn with me and every tonne of arsenic, mercury, sulphur.

For the crew and over 75 guides and helpers, it's hard going carrying nearly a tonne of kit through the marshy valleys.

He weighs close to half a tonne, and could go for three days without drinking.

And they're willing to pay, so there's a tonne of money to be made smuggling PBJs into the yard.

You must know what a tonne is.

It's a weight unit while register tonne is a volume unit.

Through a complicated elimination process, we weed out those less qualified for the day-to-day operation of a 500,000-tonne single hull super tanker.

It must have weighed a tonne!

A tonne.

The payload, the botanical raw materials it's called, about a tonne.

And one pig can eat nearly half a tonne of the stuff.

The bleeding great packing case that weighs a tonne, that's what.

He weighs a tonne.

Their skin weighs a tonne.

Just under a tonne of fish isn't bad but it's nowhere near what these fishermen were landing a few years ago.

Like the '47 la tonne?