(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.
Pin
Definition:
(v. t.) To peen.
(v. t.) To inclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
(n.) A piece of wood, metal, etc., generally cylindrical, used for fastening separate articles together, or as a support by which one article may be suspended from another; a peg; a bolt.
(n.) Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc.
(n.) Hence, a thing of small value; a trifle.
(n.) That which resembles a pin in its form or use
(n.) A peg in musical instruments, for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
(n.) A linchpin.
(n.) A rolling-pin.
(n.) A clothespin.
(n.) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
(n.) The tenon of a dovetail joint.
(n.) One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink.
(n.) The bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center.
(n.) Mood; humor.
(n.) Caligo. See Caligo.
(n.) An ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by a pin; as, a Masonic pin.
(n.) The leg; as, to knock one off his pins.
(n.) To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, while the precise nature of the city’s dietary problems is hard to pin down, the picture regarding physical activity is much clearer.
(2) In difficult fractures we feel that change from external to internal fixation should be performed earlier; it makes early removal of the fixator pins possible and prevents the problems associated with prolonged use of fixator frames.
(3) The changes in nuclear morphology (karyometry) and DNA content in prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN) were analyzed on tissue sections.
(4) They had been pinning their hopes on Alan Johnson who has, in their eyes, the natural authority and ease of manner which Miliband has struggled to develop.
(5) During powder compaction on a Manesty Betapress, peak pressures, Pmax, are reached before the punches are vertically aligned with the centres of the upper and lower compression roll support pins.
(6) In the absence of boxes or grooves, pins markedly enhanced both retention and resistance.
(7) Small threaded pins do not cause femoral head rotation.
(8) A Charnley apparatus or turnbuckles placed between the pins on each side of the fracture provided the mechanical advantage for repositioning the fracture fragments and achieving rigid fixation during healing.
(9) Ankle arthrodesis treated by external fixation frequently results in complications from pin tract infections, loss of position, nonunion, and malunion.
(10) There were no cases of pin-track osteomyelitis, fractures through pintracks, or neurovascular damage from pin insertion.
(11) We discuss the indications for operative treatment and the technique of internal fixation with 3 resorbable pins.
(12) Major pin-tract infections are a potentially dangerous complication associated with the use of skeletal transfixation pins.
(13) The OECD pinned the blame for the disadvantage for girls in maths and science on low expectations among parents and teachers, as well as lack of self-confidence and what it called the ability to “think like a scientist” in answering problems.
(14) Retrograde intramedullary pinning was accomplished in all calves, using 2 (n = 4 calves) or 3 (n = 8 calves) pins.
(15) The defective pinF gene is suggested to hae the same origin as P-pin on e14 by the restriction map of the fragment cloned from a Pin+ transductant that was obtained in transduction from S. flexneri to E. coli delta pin.
(16) The document says that Sienna Miller suspected her mobile phone was not secure and changed it twice, but Mulcaire's handwritten notes show that he succeeded in obtaining the new number, account number, pin code and password for all three phones.
(17) The probe tip was a gold-plated pin, insulated from the saliva by soft wax.
(18) One hundred patients were treated with the Rydell four-flanged nail and 100 with the Gouffon pins.
(19) In AP and lateral radiographs of the hip, measurements are made of the cervicofemoral angles, the diameter of the femoral head and neck, and the distances from the central femoral neck axis to each pin.
(20) Subjective pain ratings of mucosal pin-prick decreased a surprisingly small degree after application of both solutions.