па́лочка — meaning in English
palochka
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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.
- beater noun A kitchen tool used for mixing or whipping ingredients.
- 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.
- 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
па́лочка is used for these senses in English:
- baton (military) A ceremonial staff of a field marshal or a similar high-ranking military office.
- baton (sports) An object transferred by runners in a relay race.
- beater (music) A stick used to play a percussion instrument.
- 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.
- rod A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or for transferring power as a driveshaft.
- rod cell (anatomy) Any of the cylindrical photoreceptor cells in the retina that function in dim light levels.
- 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.
beater — full definition
- noun A kitchen tool used for mixing or whipping ingredients.
- noun Informally, an old, run-down car that still works.
- noun In a hunting party, a person employed to drive game toward the shooters.