tonnage
See also: Tonnage
English edit
Etymology edit
From Old French tonnage.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tonnage (countable and uncountable, plural tonnages)
- The number of tons of water that a floating ship displaces.
- 1947 January and February, “Notes and News: New Southern Channel Steamer”, in Railway Magazine, page 49:
- With her luxurious furnishings and spacious accommodation the Invicta, which is 350-ft. long and has a gross tonnage of 4,178, resembles a small liner.
- The capacity of a ship's hold etc in units of 100 cubic feet.
- The number of tons of bombs dropped in a particular region over a particular period of time.
- A charge made on each ton of cargo when landed etc.
- The total shipping of a fleet or nation.
- A weight in tons, especially of cargo or freight.
- 2023 December 13, “Network News: GB Railfreight heads for biggest fleet”, in RAIL, number 998, page 18:
- DB Cargo is understood to be looking at the feasibility of re-gearing some of its Class 66s to allow them to haul the same tonnages as the Class 60s it has taken out of its fleet in the latter part of 2023.
Synonyms edit
- (ships, shipping): tunnage
Coordinate terms edit
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shipping
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Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Middle French tonnage. Later influenced by English tonnage.
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Noun edit
tonnage f (uncountable)
Descendants edit
- → Indonesian: tonase
See also edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French. By surface analysis, tonne + -age, tonneau + -age. However, the Old French word referred to a type of feudal tax, and the modern nautical meanings are a seventeenth-century semantic loan from English tonnage.
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Noun edit
tonnage m (plural tonnages)
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Further reading edit
- “tonnage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.