pałeczka — meaning in English
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English meaning
- baton noun A short stick used by a police officer as a weapon or by a conductor to lead an orchestra.
- chopstick noun One of a pair of slender sticks used, held in one hand, to pick up and eat food, especially in East Asian cuisine.
- drumstick noun A stick used to strike a drum.
- rod noun A straight, thin bar, stick, or pole made of wood, metal, or similar material.
- wand noun A slender rod held in the hand, especially one used by a magician or as a symbol of authority.
Senses
pałeczka is used for these senses in English:
- bacillus Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming aerobic bacteria in the genus Bacillus, some of which cause disease.
- baton (sports) An object transferred by runners in a relay race.
- drumstick A stick used to play drums. [from 16th c.]
- rod An implement held vertically and viewed through an optical surveying instrument such as a transit, used to measure distance in land surveying and construction layout; an engineer's rod, surveyor's rod, surveying rod, leveling rod, ranging rod. The modern (US) engineer's or surveyor's rod commonly is eight or ten feet long and often designed to extend higher. In former times a surveyor's rod often was a single wooden pole or composed of multiple sectioned and socketed pieces, and besides serving as a sighting target was used to measure distance on the ground horizontally, hence for convenience was of one rod or pole in length, that is, 5+1⁄2 yards.
- wand A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.
baton — full definition
- noun A short stick used by a police officer as a weapon or by a conductor to lead an orchestra.
- noun A short rod passed from runner to runner in a relay race.