1
: a large cask especially for wine
2
: any of various units of liquid capacity
especially
: one equal to 252 gallons
Examples of tun in a Sentence
in olden days an English ship's capacity was measured by the number of tuns of wine it could hold
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The similarities suggest the mechanism may be a common trigger for tuns and other forms of hardy dormancy, a phenomenon that scientists call cryptobiosis.
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Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2024
Under these forms of stress, tardigrades curl up into a temporary, protective state of dormancy called a tun.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2024
Under stressful conditions, with cysteine unavailable to the free radicals being produced, the tardigrades couldn’t form tuns.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2024
The yield of the mine is about 500,000 tuns annually, valued at ten dollars per tun.
—Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2021
The agaves are cut into one inch cubes and then cooked for seven hours in a heated mash tun equipped with a stream jacket.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
In a commercial brewhouse, the grain is cracked in a mill then sent through a grist case, which dispenses it into a vessel called the mash tun.
—oregonlive, 20 Feb. 2020
Forks clank down, sleeves roll up, and diners file into the abutting bodega to fill their glasses with cool, foamy sagardo straight from the 5,000-gallon tun.
—Benjamin Kemper, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Feb. 2018
All the remaining grain falls to the bottom of the stainless steel tun, creating a grain bed through which the liquid passes on its way back to the mash kettle.
—Tara Massouleh, AL.com, 31 May 2017
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Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2024
Under these forms of stress, tardigrades curl up into a temporary, protective state of dormancy called a tun.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2024
Under stressful conditions, with cysteine unavailable to the free radicals being produced, the tardigrades couldn’t form tuns.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2024
The yield of the mine is about 500,000 tuns annually, valued at ten dollars per tun.
—Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2021
The agaves are cut into one inch cubes and then cooked for seven hours in a heated mash tun equipped with a stream jacket.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
In a commercial brewhouse, the grain is cracked in a mill then sent through a grist case, which dispenses it into a vessel called the mash tun.
—oregonlive, 20 Feb. 2020
Forks clank down, sleeves roll up, and diners file into the abutting bodega to fill their glasses with cool, foamy sagardo straight from the 5,000-gallon tun.
—Benjamin Kemper, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Feb. 2018
All the remaining grain falls to the bottom of the stainless steel tun, creating a grain bed through which the liquid passes on its way back to the mash kettle.
—Tara Massouleh, AL.com, 31 May 2017
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“Tun.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tun. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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