(n.) A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman.
(n.) Something characteristic; a mark; a token.
(n.) A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.
(v. t.) To mark or distinguish with a badge.
Example Sentences:
(1) A man wearing a badge that says "property team" quietly parries some of her points, but chooses not to engage with others.
(2) There is even a version specifically for Manchester United fans ("This badge is your badge, this badge is my badge!").
(3) At the present time, the following parameters can be recommended for "early diagnosis" of phosgene overexposure: Phosgene indicator paper badges, to be worn by all persons involved in handling phosgene (these badges permit immediate estimation of the exposure dose in each individual case); Observation of the initial irritative symptoms of the eye and the upper respiratory tract after phosgene inhalation can provide a rough indication of the inhalation concentration and dose; X-ray photographs of the lungs make it possible to detect incipient toxic pulmonary edema at an early stage, during the clinical latent period.
(4) This year, on the first day, I bumped into a fellow market regular who was hawking a DVD title (no longer a badge of shame).
(5) The letters, bearing the prince's heraldic badge, were effective.
(6) Branded cigarettes are 'badge' products, frequently on display, which therefore act as a 'silent salesman'.
(7) Several of his Tory colleagues – and indeed the leader of the opposition, Jeremy Corbyn – were wearing HMD badges to mark the occasion.
(8) Giggs been taking his coaching badges and spoke to Stuart James last month about his philosophy going forward.
(9) Thirty-six exposures (or "runs") were made, exposing 522 badges for periods of 1 h-2 d. Normalization between the runs was based on the absorbed dose at 1,000 mg cm-2 for each run, as measured by the depth-dose device.
(10) It was really only when William Styron published Darkness Visible in 1990 that depression entered mainstream social discourse and began to lose its stigma (even growing into a badge of honour for a while).
(11) In addition to occupying numerous buildings, militia members have also driven around government vehicles , used the site’s kitchens and beds and may have even accessed government computers with employee ID badges left on site.
(12) On the other side, underlining that this is a battle that is likely to be partly played out in public, deepening the divide between player and president, the sports supplement of the newspaper La Razón opened with a front-page photograph of Ramos celebrating a goal by lifting his hand to his heart, where Madrid’s badge adorns the shirt.
(13) Asking Alexander how genuine Hunt’s commitment to the NHS is, given his always having an NHS badge in his left lapel and regular praise of its staff, draws a scornful response: “I was quite struck by Dr Clare Gerada’s tweet about the junior doctors dispute, where she said: ‘Jeremy Hunt wears his NHS badge on his lapel, but junior doctors wear the NHS in their hearts.’ ” Plans to dissolve south London NHS trust anger neighbouring hospital Read more Hunt is one of the few senior figures in parliament who already knows what an effective opponent Alexander can be.
(14) A lapel badge dosimeter sensitive to short wave UVR has been used in a preliminary trial to survey photosensitivity in psychiatric patients on phenothiazine therapy.
(15) Lovell-Badge has been a panel member for all three reviews.
(16) Using a newly developed SPM sampler and NO2 filter badge, continuous 4 day (96 hours) measurements were conducted in two hundred residential homes for four weeks.
(17) The most recent ancestor of the pin is the hospital badge of 100 years ago.
(18) We wear its many dysfunctions as a badge of honour, proudly swapping real-life stories that elsewhere in the world would belong in the realms of sci-fi or satire.
(19) The badge was found easy to use and the results suggest that chlorpromazine is more photosensitizing than other phenothiazines.
(20) In Clinton's administration, if you have a badge, you have the government's go-ahead to harass, intimidate, even murder law-abiding citizens," he wrote.
Badger
Definition:
(n.) An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
(n.) A carnivorous quadruped of the genus Meles or of an allied genus. It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on the fore feet. One species (M. vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana / Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu.
(n.) A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists.
(v. t.) To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.
(v. t.) To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a single letter in February 2005, Charles urged a badger cull to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis – damning opponents to the cull as “intellectually dishonest”; lobbied for his preferred person to be appointed to crack down on the mistreatment of farmers by supermarkets; proposed his own aide to brief Downing Street on the design of new hospitals; and urged Blair to tackle an EU directive limiting the use of herbal alternative medicines in the UK.
(2) MPs have voted to abandon the controversial badger cull in England entirely, inflicting an embarrassing defeat on ministers who had already been forced to postpone the start of the killing until next summer.
(3) Forty-seven badgers were caught from the eight social groups.
(4) The government's decision to allow a cull of badgers, reportedly to combat bovine tuberculosis, "flies in the face of the scientific evidence" and will serve only to spread the disease, Labour claims.
(5) The planned cull had suffered a series of blows recently, including the discovery of up to twice as many badgers in the culling zones than expected, driving up the cost and complexity of the cull.
(6) Field trials found the BCG vaccine reduced the incidence of bovine TB in badgers by 73.8%.
(7) I tried hard not to think of a time hence when I could count every tree in the wood, when the badger sett would be in an open field.
(8) Rosie Woodroffe, a professor and a key member of an earlier landmark 10-year study of badger culling , said: "It would be extraordinarily unusual for natural causes to change badger populations so rapidly, and indeed no such changes have been seen [elsewhere].
(9) There was generally avoidance of pasture treated with badger urine up to 14 days old.
(10) Wild animals, particularly badgers, have been implicated as reservoirs of the infection.
(11) The killing of badgers to somehow “save” dairy and beef cows is perverse.
(12) Badgers need to be trapped before they can be vaccinated, and the process will need to be repeated annually for many years, which makes it extremely expensive to use.
(13) Sera obtained from 2 groups of badgers removed in bovine tuberculosis control operations have been examined for antibodies to 11 species of mycobacteria.
(14) There has certainly been a raft of policy announcements: on a green investment bank , subsidies for domestic renewable energy , electric vehicles , high speed rail , even badgers .
(15) The risk is that it removes relatively few badgers; then the worst case scenario is not just the loss of the risk reduction observed in the RBCT but the possibility of actually increasing the risk to local cattle herds (such as observed in reactively culled areas of the RBCT).
(16) Matters worsened when on-the-ground surveys, costing almost £1m, discovered up to twice as many badgers in the first cull areas in Gloucestershire and Somerset.
(17) After the July ruling, which was welcomed by the National Farmers Union, the British Veterinary Association and the British Cattle Veterinary Association, a spokesman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: "No one wants to cull badgers but last year bovine TB led to the slaughter of over 26,000 cattle, and to help eradicate the disease it needs to be tackled in badgers."
(18) The relative importance of the two mating periods is reflected in the seasonal pattern of bite wounding in adult male badgers; minor bite wounding in January-March was 2.3 times as frequent as in August-October, and moderate-extensive bite wounding was 3.1 times more frequent.
(19) Serological results obtained in badgers and wild boars also demonstrates the absence of direct or indirect horizontal transmission of the recombinant virus.
(20) On the ground beneath their feet lived salamanders, amphibians and plenty of mammals, including the badger-sized beast, repenomamus, which dined on dead dinosaurs.