(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.
Diadem
Definition:
(n.) Originally, an ornamental head band or fillet, worn by Eastern monarchs as a badge of royalty; hence (later), also, a crown, in general.
(n.) Regal power; sovereignty; empire; -- considered as symbolized by the crown.
(n.) An arch rising from the rim of a crown (rarely also of a coronet), and uniting with others over its center.
(v. t.) To adorn with a diadem; to crown.
Example Sentences:
(1) With an armamentarium of clinical observation, dermatologists may suspect a hypomelanotic cutaneous diadem overlying a palpable dermal mass to be a visual vignette of a sarcoidal montage requiring diagnostic biopsy.
(2) Electron microscopy of ejaculated spermatozoa demonstrated the characteristic diadem pattern of craters in the equatorial region of the head.
(3) His Christmas radio broadcast in 1953, in which he quoted Macaulay's description of the Puritans ("Their palaces were houses not made with hands: their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away") moved many listeners to tears.
(4) It was a strikingly odd object, 12g of gold so large that it would only fit on a gloved thumb, ornamented with a peculiar spiky head wearing a diadem, and a Latin inscription reading: "Senicianus live well in God".