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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
badge
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
orange
▪ Some orange badges, quite obviously, are gained by telling white lies.
▪ He said there were 2,000 orange badge holders in Darlington alone and the system is abused.
▪ New rules: Rules change on Monday for disabled drivers using orange badge parking discs.
▪ Labour councillors on Tuesday voted to introduce pedestrianisation in Skinnergate and High Row without any exemptions for orange badge holders.
▪ There are a large number of orange badge holders.
■ NOUN
cap
▪ Item 2 is the brass scroll which was once part of the Royal Warwickshire regiment's cap badge.
▪ The cap badge worn at the turn-of-the-century was a white metal normal light infantry stringed bugle-horn surmounted by a ducal coronet.
▪ They distrust the arrangements for settling the issues of cap badges and flags.
▪ A piece of shrapnel had hit his cap badge and had penetrated the front of his skull.
merit
▪ They work hard to earn their merit pins and merit badges.
name
▪ I notice that the Minister is wearing his name badge.
▪ No longer did I desire conventions of little nymphets, each one wearing playboy's plastic name badge.
▪ Women managers have a choice as to whether they wear trousers or a skirt. Name badges are worn by staff.
▪ In particular, this means that you: must wear a name badge when dealing with the public.
▪ At each stage, if they pass, the employees name badge moves up a colour and their pay increases accordingly.
▪ Even now, visitors crossing the hallowed threshold of the Treasury are met by an individual wearing a name badge.
■ VERB
issue
▪ They have been issued with sunglasses, badges, scarves and ties.
wear
▪ Voice over Today's scouts proudly wear cooking and computer badges as well as the more traditional activities of camping and sports.
▪ Can teachers wear political buttons, badges, or armbands to class?
▪ Many in the row she sat in wore small badges denoting the wearers as pilgrims to Lourdes.
▪ Souvenir patches and shirts are worn as badges of honor.
▪ From the safety of my heterosexual relationship I wore my Gaysoc badge out on the streets.
▪ If the Negro was equal in the eyes of the law, the men wearing badges needed glasses.
▪ They were the Ostarbeiters, intelligent and educated, and set to work as labourers, made to wear a badge.
▪ They wore with pride the badge of the timber corps; crossed axes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a badge for photography
▪ Mulder showed his badge and asked a few questions.
▪ You'll get a security badge that will allow you into the building.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And all Pirates receive a free Club T-shirt and badge.
▪ Can teachers wear political buttons, badges, or armbands to class?
▪ She wore a black coat and had a Soviet Railway badge pinned to her black hat.
▪ The badge confers, if not the touch of aristocracy it used to bring, at least a sense of class.
▪ The badge of the Airborne Division had been enlarged in colour and framed as a centrepiece.
▪ There were now no badges of rank to be seen.
▪ To get into the center, users will be required to buy a one-year, $ 15 photo-identification badge.
▪ We coveted those badges, and I never realized how much until that night in Casualty.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Badge

Badge \Badge\ (b[a^]j), n. [LL. bagea, bagia, sign, prob. of German origin; cf. AS. be['a]g, be['a]h, bracelet, collar, crown, OS. b[=o]g- in comp., AS. b[=u]gan to bow, bend, G. biegen. See Bow to bend.]

  1. A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman. ``Tax gatherers, recognized by their official badges.''
    --Prescott.

  2. Something characteristic; a mark; a token.

    Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
    --Shak.

  3. (Naut.) A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.

Badge

Badge \Badge\ (b[a^]j), v. t. To mark or distinguish with a badge.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
badge

mid-14c., perhaps from Anglo-French bage or from Anglo-Latin bagis, plural of bagia "emblem," all of unknown origin.

Wiktionary
badge

n. 1 A distinctive mark, token, sign, emblem or cognizance, wear on one's clothing, as an insignia of some rank, or of the membership of an organization. 2 A small nameplate, identifying the wearer, and often giving additional information. 3 A card, sometimes with a barcode or magnetic strip, granting access to a certain are

  1. 4 Something characteristic; a mark; a token. v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To mark or distinguish with a badge. 2 (context transitive English) To show a badge to. 3 (context transitive English) To enter a restricted area by showing one's badge.

WordNet
badge

v. put a badge on; "The workers here must be badged"

badge
  1. n. an emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.); "they checked everyone's badge before letting them in"

  2. any feature that is regarded as a sign of status (a particular power or quality or rank); "wearing a tie was regarded as a badge of respectability"

Wikipedia
Badge (song)

"Badge" is a pop rock song performed by the British rock music supergroup Cream. It was written by Eric Clapton and George Harrison. It was included as a track on Cream's final album, Goodbye. "Badge" was a minor hit in the United States, peaking at number 60 on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 after its release as a single in April 1969. The single was much more successful in the United Kingdom, where it reached position 18.

Badge

A badge is a device or accessory, often containing the insignia of an organization, which is presented or displayed to indicate some feat of service, a special accomplishment, a symbol of authority granted by taking an oath (e.g., police and fire), a sign of legitimate employment or student status, or as a simple means of identification. They are also used in advertising, publicity, and for branding purposes. Police badges date back to medieval times when knights wore a coat of arms representing their allegiances and loyalty.

Badges can be made from metal, plastic, leather, textile, rubber, etc., and they are commonly attached to clothing, bags, footwear, vehicles, home electrical equipment, etc. Textile badges or patches can be either woven or embroidered, and can be attached by gluing, ironing-on, sewing or applique. Badges have become highly collectable: in the UK, for example, the Badge Collectors' Circle has been in existence since 1980. In the military, badges are used to denote the unit or arm to which the wearer belongs, and also qualifications received through military training, rank, etc. Similarly, youth organizations such as scouting and guiding use them to show group membership, awards and rank.

Badge (disambiguation)

Badge may refer to:

  • Badge, a display indicating a special accomplishment, or as a symbol of authority:
    • Access badge, a credential used to gain entry to an area
    • Digital badge, an indicator of accomplishment, skill, quality or interest in various learning environments
    • Heraldic badge, a display of allegiance to a royal figure
    • Web badge, a small image used on websites to promote a web standard, product, or terms of service
    • Pin-back button, in the United Kingdom
    • Rebadging, the practice of applying a new brand or trademark to an existing product

In arts and entertainment:

  • "Badge" (song) by the 1960s rock group Cream
  • "Badge" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode), 2001 US TV episode
  • James Badge Dale, American actor
  • Achievement (video gaming), a secondary goal within a video game

BADGE may refer to:

  • Bisphenol A diglycidyl ether, a component of epoxy resin
  • , an academic degree in France

Usage examples of "badge".

It felt better to wear out my frustrations by the use of my legs, and so I resolved to follow the capering street to the top if need be and see the Vincula and Acies Castle from that height, and then to show my badge of office to the guards at the fortifications there and walk along them to the Capulus and so cross the river by the lowest way.

Platonic school were used as the badges of popular factions, and the distance which separated their respective tenets were enlarged or magnified by the acrimony of dispute.

Judit Kendoro walked through the swinging doors of Surgery and presented her Amalgamated badge to the desk clerk.

One acceptable form of authentication uses a digital electronic lock that requires an employee to swipe his employee badge and enter an access code.

The badgeless one meets with a guard again and then with he who wears a badge.

He noted that Barton Badging was a prim-looking gentleman who wore gold-coin cufflinks, a tie pin fashioned from a coin, and had a gold-coin watch fob dangling from a heavy gold chain stretched across his vest.

Ignoring his guest, Badging leaned forward and clasped the leather case to his chest and began to shower kisses on it.

Simultaneously Badging jerked, and his elbow knocked an ashtray of the arm of his chair.

At this threat his tears and supplications began over again and with renewed force, and telling me that he was in utter poverty he emptied his pockets one after the other to shew me that he had no money, and at last offered me the bloodstained badge of his uncle.

Dolan rolled his cigarette to one corner of his mouth and took out a leather bifold wallet with his badge, which he held up.

Battle of the Badges Whatever isolation Nancy Floyd was feeling on the inside of the Bureau, Ronnie Bucca was feeling doubly frustrated on the outside.

Guild, so many whores, afraid of being caught and thrown into the workhouse for soliciting without a permit or Guild badge, bought busking permits.

The badge embroidered over his left breast was quite unfamiliar to Javan, as was the unusual cincture of braided red and gold knotted over the black cassock.

I mean you coulda got rid of the badge and the card and the police pistol before you climbed outta the taxi.

But gathered at the foot of the ledge they were descending, spears poised, were perhaps ten males, some hardly past cubhood, others showing the snowy shine of fur which was the badge of age.