tonnage

See also: Tonnage

English

Etymology

From Old French tonnage

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʌnɪdʒ/

Noun

tonnage (countable and uncountable, plural tonnages)

1. The number of tons of water that a floating ship displaces.
2. The capacity of a ship's hold etc in units of 100 cubic feet.
3. The number of tons of bombs dropped in a particular region over a particular period of time.
4. A charge made on each ton of cargo when landed etc.
5. The total shipping of a fleet or nation.

Coordinate terms

• (charge per ton): cranage, demurrage, shippage, shorage, wharfage

Translations

shipping

• Danish: tonnage c
• Finnish: vetoisuus (fi)
• French: tonnage (fr) m
• Irish: ^{(please verify)} tonnáiste m
• Japanese: トン数 (tonsū)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tonnasje m

  Nynorsk: tonnasje m

• Russian: тонна́ж (ru) m (tonnáž)
• Scottish Gaelic: luingeas m or f

Anagrams

• negaton

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French tonnage. Later influenced by English tonnage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌtɔˈnaː.ʒə/

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• Hyphenation: ton‧na‧ge
• Rhymes: -aːʒə

Noun

tonnage f (uncountable)

1. tonnage (water displacement of a ship measured in tons)
2. tonnage (cargo capacity of a ship's hold)

See also

• waterverplaatsing

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French

Noun

tonnage m (plural tonnages)

1. tonnage

Descendants

• → Danish: tonnage
• → German: Tonnage
• → Swedish: tonnage

Further reading

• “tonnage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).