| 单词 | baton |
| 释义 | baton /beuh ton", ba-, bat"n/, n. 1. Music. a wand used by a conductor. 2. a rod of lightweight metal fitted with a weighted bulb at each end and carried and twirled by a drum major or majorette. 3. Track. a hollow rod of wood, paper, or plastic that is passed during a race from one member of a relay team to the next in a prescribed area. 4. a staff, club, or truncheon, esp. one serving as a mark of office or authority. 5. Heraldry. a. a diminutive of the bend sinister, couped at the extremities: used in England as a mark of bastardy. b. a similar diminutive of the ordinary bend. [1540-50; < MF bâton, OF baston < VL *baston- (s. of *basto) stick, club; cf. LL bastum staff] Syn. 4. mace, scepter, crosier, rod, wand; fasces; caduceus. |
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