📖 Определения и значения для слова baton
📒 a short thick stick that police officers carry as a weapon
- a baton charge (= one made by police carrying batons, to force a crowd back)
- Five people were injured in the baton charge.
- The police were ordered to draw their batons and disperse the crowd.
📒 a thin light stick used by the person (called a conductor) who is in control of an orchestra, etc.
- The orchestra played brilliantly under Previn’s baton.
- He tapped his baton on the music stand to get everyone's attention.
- The orchestra made the recording under the baton of a young German conductor.
📒 a short light stick that one member of a team in a relay race passes to the next person to run
- to pass/hand over the baton
- (figurative) The President handed over the baton (= passed responsibility) to his successor.
📒 a long stick that is held and thrown in the air by a person marching in front of a band, or by a majorette
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