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Tonic (band)
Tonic is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1993 by Emerson Hart and Jeff Russo. Its platinum 1996 debut Lemon Parade yielded "If You Could Only See," the most-played rock song of 1997; later albums include Sugar, Head on Straight, and Tonic.
Tonic (music)
Tonic (music): the first scale degree and keynote, the central note and chord of a key toward which tonal music resolves; distinct from the dominant and from a chord's root.
Tonic water
Tonic water (Indian tonic water, quinine water) is a sweetened carbonated soft drink flavored with quinine from Cinchona bark. Patented by Erasmus Bond in 1858 and popularized by Schweppes, it originated in British colonial India and is now the standard gin and tonic mixer.
Tonicella lineata
Tonicella lineata, the lined chiton (basionym Chiton lineatus, Wood 1815), is a colorful polyplacophoran mollusc of the northeast Pacific, from Alaska to California, subtidal to 90 m, grazing coralline algae; a species complex including T. lokii and T. venusta.
Tonicity
Tonicity is the property of a solution that determines whether a cell will swell, shrink, or keep its volume, set by nonpenetrating solutes and expressed as hypotonic, isotonic, or hypertonic.
Tonies
Tonies is a German children's audio entertainment system made by tonies SE of Düsseldorf, pairing the screen-free Toniebox speaker with collectible NFC figurines, launched in 2016.
Tonight (David Bowie album)
Tonight (1984) is David Bowie's sixteenth studio album, released September 1984 on EMI, produced with Derek Bramble and Hugh Padgham. Its Tina Turner title-track duet reworks Iggy Pop's 1977 song; it hit UK number 1 but was critically panned.
Tonight's the Night (Neil Young album)
Tonight's the Night is Neil Young's sixth studio album, released June 20, 1975 on Reprise (MS 2221). Recorded raw in 1973 at S.I.R. after the overdose deaths of Danny Whitten and Bruce Berry, it is a Ditch Trilogy album.
Tonina
Toniná, a Classic-period Maya city in the Ocosingo valley, Chiapas, Mexico, with a 74-meter seven-platform acropolis taller than Teotihuacán's Pyramid of the Sun, known for warfare against Palenque and Copán and its 2026 reopening.
Tonio Buonassisi
Tonio Buonassisi is a solar-energy researcher and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, where he heads the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory and received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2016.
Tonio Kröger
Tonio Kröger is a 1903 novella by Thomas Mann tracing the son of a north German merchant and a southern mother torn between bourgeois life and art.
Tonj
Tonj (Tunj, Tonge, Tunge) is the Middle East name for Russian Bank, also called Crapette or Zank-Patience: a two-player competitive patience with two 52-card decks, shared Ace-to-King foundations, compulsory moves, and a Stop! call.
Tonje Brenna
Tonje Brenna is a Norwegian politician of the Labour Party who served as minister of education and then labor, and entered parliament for Akershus in 2025.
Tonje Kjærgaard
Tonje Kjærgaard-Petersen is a former Danish handball player who won Olympic gold in 1996 and 2000, retiring as a pivot with five medals from eight finals.
Tonje Nøstvold
Tonje Nøstvold (Nøstvold Lunde), Norwegian handball right back born 1985 in Stavanger; 183 caps, 408 goals; Olympic gold 2008 and 2012, world champion 2011, three-time European champion.
Tonk (city)
Tonk, Rajasthan: district-headquarters city on NH-12, former princely state founded by Nawab Amir Khan (1806), merged into Rajasthan in 1948; known for Sunehri Kothi, Jama Masjid, and Persian-Arabic manuscript collections.
Tonk (game)
Tonk, also called Tunk, is an American five-card knock rummy game played for stakes, with 49- or 50-point opening tonks, spreads, drops, and catches; a 1930s-40s jazz favorite recorded by Duke Ellington.
Tonka
Tonka is an American toy brand best known for durable, realistic toy trucks and construction vehicles, first made in 1947 by the Mound Metalcraft Company of Mound, Minnesota.
Tonka (1959 film)
Tonka (1959 film) is a Walt Disney western, released December 25, 1958, directed by Lewis R. Foster, starring Sal Mineo as White Bull, based on David Appel's novel Comanche, filmed in Oregon.
Tonka trucks
Tonka trucks: pressed-steel toy trucks first made in 1947 by Mound Metalcraft of Mound, Minnesota, named for Lake Minnetonka (Dakota for "big"). Famous for the Mighty Dump Truck; owned by Hasbro since 1991, built by Basic Fun! under license.
Tonkatsu (とんかつ)
Tonkatsu (とんかつ, pork cutlet) is a Japanese yoshoku dish: thick pork, breaded in panko and deep-fried, pioneered in 1899 at Rengatei in Ginza from French côtelette, served with cabbage, rice, and sauce.
Tonkin (protectorate)
Tonkin, from the Vietnamese Bắc Kỳ, was the French protectorate over northern Vietnam, imposed by the Harmand Treaty of 1883 and maintained until 1945 as one component of French Indochina.
Tonkin Campaign
The Tonkin Campaign was the French military campaign of 1883 to 1886 to occupy Tonkin, northern Vietnam, and establish a protectorate, merging into the Sino-French War in 1884.
Tonkin Island
Tonkin Island is a narrow, ice-capped island in Antarctica, rising to about 520 m above the Larsen Ice Shelf east of Cape Church on the Bowman Coast of Graham Land.
Tonkinese cat
Tonkinese cat: a medium-sized pedigree cat breed from Siamese × Burmese crosses, shown in mink, solid, and pointed patterns in four colors, with aqua eyes in mink; descended partly from Wong Mau, recognized in Canada in the 1960s and by CFA in 1982.
Tonkotsu ramen (豚骨ラーメン)
Tonkotsu ramen (豚骨ラーメン), pork-bone ramen with a white cloudy broth, originated in Kurume, Fukuoka: a clear version in 1937 at Nanjing Senryō, the cloudy soup in 1947 at Sankyū, spreading to Hakata, Kumamoto, and beyond.
Tonkpi
Tonkpi: administrative region of western Côte d'Ivoire in the Montagnes district, capital Man, created 2011, five departments, 1,387,909 inhabitants (RGPH 2021), borders Liberia and Guinea, mountainous with Mont Nimba.
Tonlé Sap
Tonle Sap (Boeng Tonle Sap), Cambodia's great fluvial lake, largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia; reverses Mekong flow seasonally, expanding from 2,500 to over 16,000 km2 and sustaining a top global inland fishery.
Tonle Sap freshwater swamp forests
Tonle Sap freshwater swamp forests: seasonally flooded forest and shrubland ecoregion around Tonle Sap lake, Cambodia, inundated 6–8 months yearly by the Mekong flood pulse; fish nursery habitat, heavily cleared, with Prek Toal the best remaining stand.
Tonle Sap–Mekong peat swamp forests
Tonle Sap–Mekong peat swamp forests: a Cambodian freshwater swamp-forest ecoregion of permanently shallow-inundated land around Tonle Sap, marked by flood-pulse adaptation, severe fire and rice-conversion losses, and UNESCO Biosphere Reserve protection.