English-Portuguese translations for baton

• bastão
  O bastão da luta contra o Estado paralelo internacional está agora nas mãos desses parlamentos. The baton in the fight against the international parastate is now in their hands.
  A Presidência checa passou agora o bastão à Presidência sueca, todavia os desafios que a Europa enfrenta mantêm-se e vão muito além do âmbito de uma única Presidência. The Czech Presidency has now passed the baton to the Swedish Presidency, but the challenges Europe faces continue and go well beyond the scope of a single presidency.
• batuta
  Mal o maestro tinha levantado a batuta no Concerto de Ano Novo, quando eles desligaram o gás. Scarcely had the conductor raised his baton at the New Year concert, you told us, before they turned the gas down.
  No momento em que o chefe de orquestra letão, Maris Jansons, erguia a batuta, os Russos reduziram os fornecimentos de gás, primeiro em 30% e depois, na noite de 1 para 2 de Janeiro, em 50%. Just as the Latvian conductor, Maris Jansons, raised his baton, the Russians cut their gas deliveries, first by 30% and then, in the night of 1 to 2 January, by 50%.
• cassetete
  Segundo aquela organização, as forças de segurança espancaram manifestantes com cassetetes e aplicaram choques com bastões eléctricos durante manifestações pacíficas em Sanaa. According to Amnesty, the security forces beat protestors with sticks and shocked them with electric batons during peaceful protests in Sana'a.
• testemunho
  A França acaba de receber o testemunho. The baton has now been handed over to France.
  Temos de passar correctamente o testemunho à próxima Comissão.We need to pass the baton on smoothly to the next Commission.
  Os exasperados Gregos receberam o testemunho dos Espanhóis. The exasperated Greeks have taken the baton from the Spaniards.

Definition of baton

• A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes
• The stick of a conductor in musical performances
• A short stout club used primarily by policemen; a truncheon
• An abatement in coats of arms to denote illegitimacy. (Also spelled batune, baston
• A short vertical lightweight post, not set into the ground, used to separate wires in a fence
• To strike with a baton

Examples

• the baton of a field marshal

Related words

• abaton
• hyperbaton
• batonnet
• Baton Rouge
• Baton Blue
• baton twirling
• marshal's baton
• conductor's baton
• conducting baton