What's the difference between bacon and baton?

Bacon


Definition:

  • (n.) The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nevertheless, Richard Bacon MP, a member of the Public Accounts Committee, who has tirelessly tracked failings in NHS IT, said last night: "I think the chances that Lorenzo will be turned into a credible and popular product are vanishingly small.
  • (2) Essaid Belkalem is live to the danger and saves his side's bacon.
  • (3) Russia has stepped up its battle against parmesan cheese, Danish bacon and other European delicacies, announcing it plans to incinerate contraband shipments on the border as soon as they are discovered.
  • (4) Parasite kinetics were followed in pigs receiving A. suum eggs as repeated trickle inoculations at two dose levels beginning at a body weight of 25 kg until their slaughter at 90 kg (baconers).
  • (5) Conservative committee member Richard Bacon suggested it was "purely artificial".
  • (6) 2 Ten minutes before the potatoes are ready, melt 25g of the butter in a large nonstick frying pan and fry the bacon until lightly coloured.
  • (7) In place of prosciutto: • Bacon sliced and fried until crisp.
  • (8) It has been investigated the function of the anal sphincters following Bacon type pull-through operation.
  • (9) Speaking about Bacon, Barker said: “[He] speaks to the soul.
  • (10) Guar gum was incorporated into 10 g carbohydrate portions of cheese biscuits and 20 g carbohydrate portions of pizza and egg and bacon flan.
  • (11) Meanwhile, Nicholson and Hextall were surprised to learn from one committee member, Richard Bacon, that CSC had been offering some trusts an alternative system not owned by IBA.
  • (12) Term for "excess weight due to emotional overeating": grief bacon.
  • (13) That’s why instantly recognisable trophy pieces – a Picasso, a Giacometti, a Klimt, a Bacon – command such ridiculously high prices.
  • (14) Mexican-style burgers (topped with salsa, bacon, cheese) are sensational.
  • (15) The new gallery will display Hirst's over 2,000-strong art collection, including pieces by Francis Bacon, Jeff Koons and street artist Banksy.
  • (16) But most of the collection, including works by Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Francis Bacon and many others, remains in the vaults and basement.
  • (17) If there’s nothing new, there are always those alarming pictures of him doing battle with a bacon butty.
  • (18) But for now, Miliband seems ever more solitary, a lone figure trying to keep hold of the bacon sandwich that looks all too symbolic of an omni-crumble to come.
  • (19) 38 with extensive, and 12 with limited disease, were treated with BACON.
  • (20) Or on one he didn't like: "I can admire Bacon's crafty use of paint, though it tends towards gimmickry.

Baton


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the first anniversary of Peach's death I took part in my first ever demonstration where we chanted the names of the six SPG officers who were said to have been hitting people with batons on the street where Peach died.
  • (2) Snipers fired from rooftops, and plainclothes Saleh supporters armed with automatic rifles, swords and batons attacked the protesters.
  • (3) There was nothing accidental about Saffiyah Khan’s easy nonchalance, grinning through the spitting rage of Ian Crossland at the EDL rally in Birmingham city centre at the weekend; Ieshia Evans knew there was more power in calm when she approached the police in Baton Rouge last summer.
  • (4) Dozens were injured, including 20 policemen, in a protest triggered by food costs that was eventually quelled by baton charges and teargas.
  • (5) The prosecution contended that while that manoeuvre was lawful, his repeated use of a baton against her legs showed the officer had lost his self-control.
  • (6) He explains that the violence began after the demo overran its official cut-off time: Violence flared on Tuesday in the centre of Madrid as baton-wielding police charged crowds and fired rubber bullets at demonstrators who had tried to surround the country's parliament building.
  • (7) Officers in riot gear at a number of points later drew batons and clashed with members of the crowd, hours after the protest began gathering in central London at around 6pm before massing near parliament, where fireworks were let off to cheers.
  • (8) Baton-wielding police detained dozens of people, with Malaysian media reports saying as many as 100 were arrested.
  • (9) Panic rippled through the crowd as riot police advanced repeatedly with batons drawn before being later backed up by dozens of mounted police.
  • (10) They say the footage shows Clough being pushed by police officers and struck on the head with a baton before he was pushed backwards to the ground and arrested.
  • (11) Taking a break from rehearsal, police baton in hand, the 34-year-old said: "It doesn't point to anybody, but it brings to the fore the pain the tragic event cost.
  • (12) During the protests on Monday, Tibetan sources say police beat isolated demonstrators with batons and rounded them up in trucks.
  • (13) After the brutal assault, which was taped and broadcast on national news and showed King on the ground as multiple officers beat him with batons and kicked him, the NAACP conducted a series of hearings across the country on community-police relations.
  • (14) Outside Sana'a University, riot police armed with water-cannons used batons and shields to disperse protesters.
  • (15) Stun guns, shock batons and cattle prods are electric shock devices which can be used as weapons against the human body.
  • (16) In the police's own footage of what followed, shown in court, mounted officers with batons drawn can be seen charging into miners, and officers on foot beat miners about the head with truncheons.
  • (17) Riot police beat back the crowds with batons and detained more than 400 people.
  • (18) They would then spit on batons and rape us with them.
  • (19) They’ve stolen things from us, burned us down, broken in and threatened, but to beat up people, including women, with batons?
  • (20) But he flailed in vain as the police officers grabbed him, one forcing his T-shirt roughly up over his head as three or four others laid in with their wooden batons, dragging and pushing him to a line of waiting Land Cruisers and more helmeted cops.