Baton vs. Batten — What's the Difference?

(Music) A slender wooden stick or rod used by a conductor to direct an orchestra, band, or other musical group.

A batten is most commonly a strip of solid material, historically wood but can also be of plastic, metal, or fiberglass. Battens are variously used in construction, sailing, and other fields.

A hollow metal rod with a heavy rubber tip or tips that is wielded and twirled by a drum major or drum majorette.

To become fat.

A short staff carried by certain public officials as a symbol of office.

To thrive and prosper, especially at another's expense

(Sports) The hollow cylinder that is carried by each member of a relay team in a running race and passed to the next team member.

To fatten; overfeed.

A short stick carried by police; a billy club.

(Nautical) To furnish, fasten, or secure with battens

(Heraldry) A shortened narrow bend, often signifying bastardy.

One of several flexible strips of wood or plastic placed in pockets at the outer edge of a sail to keep it flat.

A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes.

A narrow strip of wood used to fasten down the edges of the material that covers hatches in foul weather.

(music) The stick of a conductor in musical performances.

A narrow strip of wood used in construction, especially to cover a seam between boards, as flooring material, or as a lath.

(sports) An object transferred by runners in a relay race.

The heavy swinging bar on a loom that holds the reed and is pulled forward to pack down the weft.

(US) A short stout club used primarily by policemen; a truncheon UK.

A flat stick used in weaving by hand to separate the upper and lower threads of the warp and to tighten the weft.

(heraldry) A bend with the ends cut off, resembling a baton, typically borne sinister, and often used as a mark of cadency, initially for both legitimate and illegitimate children, but later chiefly for illegitimate children.

(intransitive) To become better; improve in condition, especially by feeding.

A short vertical lightweight post, not set into the ground, used to separate wires in a fence.

To feed (on); to revel (in).

To strike with a baton.

(intransitive) To thrive by feeding; grow fat; feed oneself gluttonously.

A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances.

(intransitive) To thrive, prosper, or live in luxury, especially at the expense of others; fare sumptuously.

An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; - called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister.

(intransitive) To gratify a morbid appetite or craving; gloat.

A thin tapered rod used by a conductor to direct an orchestra

(transitive) To improve by feeding; fatten; make fat or cause to thrive due to plenteous feeding.

An implement passed from runner to runner in a relay race

(transitive) To fertilize or enrich, as land.

To furnish with battens.

(nautical) To fasten or secure a hatch etc using battens.

A thin strip of wood used in construction to hold members of a structure together or to provide a fixing point.

(nautical) A long strip of wood, metal, fibreglass etc., used for various purposes aboard ship, especially one inserted in a pocket sewn on the sail in order to keep the sail flat.

(theater) In stagecraft, a long pipe, usually metal, affixed to the ceiling or fly system in a theater.

The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.

To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten.

To fertilize or enrich, as land.

To grow fat; to grow fat in ease and luxury; to glut one's self.

To furnish or fasten with battens.

A strip of sawed stuff, or a scantling;

The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.

Stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber

A strip fixed to something to hold it firm

Furnish with battens;

Secure with battens;