(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.
Bodge
Definition:
(n.) A botch; a patch.
(v. t.) To botch; to mend clumsily; to patch.
(v. i.) See Budge.
Example Sentences:
(1) First, Britain's rail network is bulging at the seams: the country needs new capacity and the cost of bodged piecemeal enlargements to the existing network are cruelly expensive and yield minimal benefits compared to HS2, as former transport minister Lord Adonis argues.
(2) The managing editor of the Sun, Richard Caseby, said the government-sponsored charter, was draconian and "bodged together" while Cameron was asleep.
(3) She added: "The thought of Homebase bodging up and running Habitat makes me want to weep … " Duddy said he did not know whether the deal had the blessing of Conran but said the design team was in contact with the founder recently and those conversations had been positive.
(4) Photograph: Sarah Lee Sitting in a cafe across the road from the vibrant hoardings of the new-look Heygate, a former resident of the estate is furious about the missed opportunity in what he sees as the borough’s bodged negotiations over the development deal.
(5) The fruits of that included the demise of Avon county council in 1996, which the West of England combined authority is a bodged attempt at recreating.
(6) They’ll still have bodging politicians in charge.
(7) This is the traditional clever bodging of British central government.
(8) I think many, if not all, socialists of my stamp felt the invasions of Afghanistan and then Iraq as colossal shocks that exposed how bodged-up our belief systems really were.
(9) Such talk is laughably anachronistic, of course, but powerful symbols often are – and it hurts Brown more, for instance, than £10bn of bodged IT contracts ever could.