What's the difference between badge and madge?

Badge


Definition:

  • (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.

Madge


Definition:

  • (n.) The barn owl.
  • (n.) The magpie.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The linear (first-order) kernels of wild type, and of single and double mutants affected in genes madA to madG were determined previously with Gaussian white noise test stimuli, and were used to investigate the interactions among the products of these genes (R.C.
  • (2) But even if she feels that those particular days are behind her, as another member of the generation that grew up with Madge as the example of everything we wanted to be (and our parents didn't), I feel quite disappointed that she doesn't feel inclined to throw her substantial clout behind such a cause.
  • (3) Paglia accuses Gaga of stealing from Madonna, but Madge pilfered sounds and imagery from everyone from Marilyn Monroe to Daft Punk .
  • (4) The madH gene product was found to interact with those of madC and madG.
  • (5) Half of firewood supplier Keith Madge's stock is underwater.
  • (6) Britain’s staycationers can expect temperatures in the high teens or low 20s this weekend, said Graham Madge, spokesman for the Met Office.
  • (7) The white-noise method of system identification has been applied to the transient light-growth response of a set of seven mutants of Phycomyces with abnormal phototropism, affected in genes madA to madG.
  • (8) A new gene, tentatively designated madG, was segregated from a cross involving that strain.
  • (9) The light-growth response of Phycomyces has been studied with Gaussian white-noise test stimuli for a set of 21 double mutants affected in all pairwise combinations of genes madA to madG; these genes are associated with phototropism, the light-growth response, and other behaviors.
  • (10) Specifically, we have investigated interactions of the madH ("hypertropic") gene product with the madC ("night blind") and madG ("stiff") gene products.
  • (11) What about the tantric sex with Trudie, the networking events they hold in their Tuscan villa for spiritual gurus and creative thinkers, the biodynamic vineyards and the fact they were responsible for introducing Madonna to Guy Ritchie at one of their glitzy celebrity parties and, by extension, for subjecting us to all those photographs of Madge in tweed caps and tracksuits?
  • (12) The second of four children of Madge (nee Hutley) and Jack, a Methodist minister with conservative theological views, Hull was born in Corryong in the state of Victoria, Australia.
  • (13) For most it’s going to be fairly bright and clear,” Madge said.
  • (14) The kernels for C110 (madE), C316 (madF), and C307 (madG) have a shallow and extended negative phase.
  • (15) "This is a very worrying situation to have at this time of year," said Grahame Madge, an RSPB official.
  • (16) Founded that year by the anthropologist Tom Harrisson , the poet and journalist Charles Madge and the surrealist painter and film-maker Humphrey Jennings , Mass Observation's aim was to study the ordinary lives of ordinary people in order to counteract the stereotypes that held sway in the British media of the time.
  • (17) Instead, its spokesman Grahame Madge accepts removing the currently small population is prudent.
  • (18) These so-called "stiff" mutants are affected in four genes (madD to madG).

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