as in barrel
an enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages
in olden days an English ship's capacity was measured by the number of tuns of wine it could hold
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Recent Examples of tun
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tun
Noun
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On another morning Woods put a hollow red barrel on the drill and bored into the ice at a refrozen site to extract an ice core about as long and thick as his arm.—
Alec Luhn,
Scientific American,
20 May 2025
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The International Monetary Fund has estimated that oil must be at almost $100 a barrel for the kingdom to balance its funding of Vision 2030 economic transformation.—
Amira El-Fekki,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 May 2025
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In January, hundreds of residents were evacuated from the Patrick Sullivan Senior Apartments on the Near West Side due to a burst pipe, which resulted in flooding and the loss of heat and hot water.—
Lizzie Kane,
Chicago Tribune,
21 May 2025
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This is typical in areas that have hard water and is caused by the minerals in the water that flows through your pipes, according to Mr. Rooter Plumbing.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
18 May 2025
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“Tun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tun. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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