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📖 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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