baton Definition
ba·ton (bə tän′, ba-; Brit ba′tän′)
noun
- a staff serving as a symbol of office
- Heraldry a short, narrow bend: in England, a baton placed diagonally right to left (as seen by the viewer) and cut short at both ends signifies bastardy
- a slender stick used by a conductor in directing an orchestra, choir, etc.
- ☆ a hollow metal rod, with a knob at one or at each end, twirled in a showy way by a drum major or drum majorette
- the short, light rod passed from one runner to the next in a relay race
- Brit. a policeman's billy; truncheon
Etymology: Fr bâton < OFr baston < VL *basto < LL bastum, stick, prob. of Gaul orig.
baton Synonyms
baton Usage Examples
Converse of object
- twirl: And twirling batons of all sizes - don't know if there's a special name for the longer ones?
- wield: A former army bandmaster, he has often wielded the baton at Jedburgh.
- pass: I am looking forward to passing the baton - which we received from the Dutch.
- carry: We also caught a glimpse of the runners carrying the baton on its way to the stadium.
- drop: I've dropped the musical baton twice now: once from Cathy and now from bsag.
Adjective modifier
- extendable: This Association condemns the prison service for using the increase of boot and shoe allowance to fund extendable batons.
- wooden: The bulk head is held in position with various wooden batons.
- electric: Local residents started a peaceful protest which lasted several days before being violently attacked by police wielding electric batons.
- musical: I've dropped the musical baton twice now: once from Cathy and now from bsag.
Modifies a noun
- rouge: Such wrath the the machine is doing baton rouge parish the change only.
- marking: It has a very attractive silver dial with polished silver applied baton markings.
- marker: Highly visible and luminous baton hour markers and hands.
- relay: The baton relay has been the traditional opener of the Commonwealth games, to be held in Manchester this year, since the 1970s.
- gun: Once the results of the baton gun trial have been analyzed then an informed decision about it capabilities can be made.
- round: Police fired baton rounds into the groups of men.
Noun used with modifier
- police: Steve also had a look of pleasure on being shown how to flick his old police baton to full length.
- west: Few in number of suburbs including treasury west baton.
Possessives
- systemsbrown: For example you to become more systemsbrown's baton rouge-based of roof racks.
- conductor: Or to conduct an orchestra in the Wii launch game called Music, simply wave it around like a conductor's baton.
Preposition: of
conductor: On August 2 the youth orchestra will be under the baton of conductor Julian Clayton.
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