Tun

Noun

 * 1) A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.
 * 2)  A fermenting vat.
 * 3) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 252 wine gallons; equal to two pipes.
 * 4) * 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, p. 205:
 * Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons.
 * 1) A weight of 2,240 pounds.
 * 2) An indefinite large quantity.
 * 3) A drunkard; so called humorously, or in contempt.
 * 4)  Any shell belonging to Dolium and allied genera; called also tun-shell.

Anagrams

 * nut

Pronoun

 * 1) your second-person singular possessive pronoun

Synonyms

 * (polite form)

Etymology 1
A contraction of tunfisk:, from Thunfisch:, from  thunnus:, from  θύννος:.

Noun

 * 1) tuna
 * 2) tuna fish

Etymology 2
From tún:.

Noun

 * 1)  an enclosed piece of ground

Etymology 3
See.

Alternative forms

 * thun

Etymology
From the tuon:, from the  tuon:, akin to the Old Saxon dôn:; compare the Dutch doen:.

Verb

 * 1) to do
 * 2) to make

Derived terms

 * gleichtun
 * kundtun
 * wehtun

Pronoun

 * 1)  you (sg.)

Pinyin

 * 1) 飢: hunger, starving; hungry; a famine
 * 2) simplified: 饣, traditional: 飠: eat, food; radical number 184

Pinyin syllable
tun


 * 1) A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, tūn, tún, tǔn, or tùn.

Verb

 * 1) to catch

Etymology
From *tūna- ‘enclosure’. Cognate with Old Frisian tūn:, Old Saxon tūn: (Dutch tuin:), Old High German zun: (German Zaun:), Old Norse tún: (Swedish tun:).

Noun

 * 1) An enclosed piece of ground, an enclosure or garden.
 * 2) The enclosed ground belonging to an individual dwelling.
 * 3) The group of houses on an area of enclosed land, a homestead.
 * 4) A large inhabited place, a town.

Descendants

 * English town

Related terms

 * tȳnan
 * dūn "dune, hill, mountain"

Etymology
From tonus:.

Noun

 * 1) cannon
 * 2)  thunderclap

Related terms

 * tuna
 * tunet

Etymology
From tonus:.

Noun

 * 1) sound
 * 2) thunder

Pronoun

 * 1)  you (sg.)

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