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(bə-tŏn', bă-, băt'n) 
n.
n.
- Music. A slender wooden stick or rod used by a conductor to direct an orchestra or band.
- A hollow metal rod with a heavy rubber tip or tips that is wielded and twirled by a drum major or drum majorette.
- A short staff carried by certain public officials as a symbol of office.
- Sports. The hollow cylinder that is carried by each member of a relay team in a running race and passed to the next team member.
- A short stick carried by police; a billy club.
- Heraldry. A shortened narrow bend, often signifying bastardy.
[French bâton, from Old French baston, stick, from Vulgar Latin *bastō, *bastōn-.]
Barron's Food Lover's Companion:
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baton; batonnet
A stick used by some conductors of choruses or orchestras. The baton is traditionally used to indicate the tempo of the music.
Random House Word Menu:
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categories related to 'baton'
- Blades, Clubs, and Projectiles - baton: cudgel, truncheon
- Musicians and Performance - baton: conductor’s light rod, used to keep time
- Track and Field
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Baton may refer to:
In stick-like objects:
- Baton (conducting), a short thin stick used for directing a musical performance
- Baton, a type of club (weapon)
- Baton (running), an object transferred by runners in a relay race
- Baton (symbol), a symbolic attribute of military or other office
- Baton (twirling), a light metal rod used for keeping time, twirling, and juggling in marching band and parade performances
- In stick juggling, the central stick, which is manipulated with the side-sticks (control sticks)
- Baton sinister, a mark of cadency in heraldry
- A smaller version of a baguette
- Another name for the suit of wands in the Italian and French tarot decks
In other uses:
- BATON, a Type 1 block cipher, used by the United States to secure all types of classified information
- Baton Bob, a costumed street performer currently based in Atlanta, Georgia
- Baton Bunny, a Bugs Bunny cartoon of the Looney Tunes series produced in 1958
- Baton Broadcasting, a Canadian broadcaster, now owned by CTVglobemedia
- Baton Broadcasting System, a defunct television system owned by Baton Broadcasting Inc.
- BATON Overlay or Balanced Tree Over-lay Network, a distributed tree structure for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems
- Baton Rouge, the capital city of Louisiana, USA
- Baton Records, a record label
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Baton
Dansk (Danish)
n. - dirigentstok, taktstok
Nederlands (Dutch)
(gummi)knuppel, dirigeerstok, estafettestokje, paal
Français (French)
n. - (Mil, Mus) bâton, baguette, (GB) matraque, témoin (dans une course de relais)
Deutsch (German)
n. - Stab, Gummiknüppel, Staffelstab, Taktstock
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - μπαγκέτα, σκυτάλη (σκυταλοδρομίας), ράβδος (αξιώματος), μπαστούνι, κλομπ
idioms:
- pass the baton δίνω τη σκυτάλη
Italiano (Italian)
manganello, sfollagente, testimone
idioms:
- pass/hand/pick up the baton passare/prendere il testimone
Português (Portuguese)
n. - cacetete (f), batuta (Mús.)
idioms:
- pass/hand/pick up the baton passar/pegar/pegar o bastão, assumir a responsabilidade (fig.)
Русский (Russian)
дирижерская палочка, жезл, шест
idioms:
- pass/hand/pick up the baton передавать палочку на эстафетном беге
Español (Spanish)
n. - porra, cachiporra, garrote, testigo, posta
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - batong, taktpinne, stav, stafettpinne
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
官杖, 权杖, 军乐队用指挥杖, 警棒, 指挥棒
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 官杖, 權杖, 軍樂隊用指揮杖, 警棒, 指揮棒
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 지팡이, 경찰봉[지휘봉], 지휘봉
idioms:
- baton Rouge 바턴 루즈 (루이지아나 주의 주도)
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 指揮棒, 警棒, 杖, バトン
idioms:
- pass/hand/pick up the baton バトンを渡す
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) عصا القيادة
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - שרביט של מנצח תזמורת, שרביט, אלה, מקל במירוץ-שליחים
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