badge
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
badge (plural badges)
- A distinctive mark, token, sign, emblem or cognizance, worn on one's clothing, as an insignia of some rank, or of the membership of an organization.
- the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman
- Tax gatherers, recognized by their official badges.
- A small nameplate, identifying the wearer, and often giving additional information.
- A card, sometimes with a barcode or magnetic strip, granting access to a certain area.
- Something characteristic; a mark; a token.
- (obsolete, thieves' cant) A brand on the hand of a thief, etc.
- He has got his badge, and piked: He was burned in the hand, and is at liberty.
- (nautical) A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.
- (heraldry) A distinctive mark worn by servants, retainers, and followers of royalty or nobility, who, being beneath the rank of gentlemen, have no right to armorial bearings.
- (GUI) A small overlay on an icon that shows additional information about that item, such as the number of new alerts or messages.
- (internet, video games) An icon or emblem awarded to a user for some achievement.
- When you have checked in to the site from ten different cities, you unlock the Traveller badge.
- See Thesaurus:badge
- French: plaque, insigne, décoration, macaron
- German: Abzeichen
- Italian: distintivo, insegna
- Portuguese: distintivo
- Russian: значо́к
- Spanish: insignia, pin, medalla, piocha (Chile)
- French: carte d'accès
- Italian: cartellino
- Portuguese: crachá
- Spanish: identificación or credencial
- Italian: emblema, contrassegno
- Portuguese: marca
badge (badges, present participle badging; past and past participle badged)
- (transitive) To mark or distinguish with a badge.
- The television was badged as 'GE', but wasn't made by them.
- (transitive) To show a badge to.
- He calmed down a lot when the policeman badged him.
- (transitive) To enter a restricted area by showing one's badge.
- 2003, Joseph Wambaugh, Fire Lover, page 146:
- And Patterson didn't hear that Jack Egger, the studio's director of security, said he'd seen John Orr badge his way through the pedestrian gate sometime before 4:00 pm, when the fire was still raging, [...]
- 2004, Sergei Hoteko, On The Fringe Of History, page 135:
- Our regional commissioner, his assistant commissioner and our district director, along with their wives, were hoofing it to the rotunda. Apparently they didn't try and badge their way through.
- 2006, David Pollino, Bill Pennington, Tony Bradley, Himanshu Dwivedi, Hacker's challenge 3 (page 338)
- Aaron badged into the data center and escorted Geoff inside the large room with its many blinking green lights.
- 2003, Joseph Wambaugh, Fire Lover, page 146:
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