(n. pl.) Distinguishing marks of authority, office, or honor; badges; tokens; decorations; as, the insignia of royalty or of an order.
(n. pl.) Typical and characteristic marks or signs, by which anything is known or distinguished; as, the insignia of a trade.
Example Sentences:
(1) Roberts can't really explain why Wu Lyf's lyrics are full of neo-biblical imagery – all blood and fire and crowns – nor why one of their main insignia is a cross, but he does admit that he got suspended from secondary school for putting a picture of Ho Chi Minh's face on Christ's body.
(2) Now, I agree with Bridget that ruling out someone for wearing Nazi insignia is a good rule of thumb.
(3) He said the appearance of men carrying Russian weapons and wearing uniforms without insignia was a "grave development" and called on Russia to pull back its troops from Ukraine's border.
(4) If Mendelsohn is playing Tarkin, his Imperial-rank insignia and uniform are both subtly different to those sported by Cushing, though it’s possible the character simply picked up a promotion or two somewhere along the way.
(5) The Corps was created as a uniformed nonmilitary service with a distinct uniform, insignia, and with titles, pay, and retirement protocols that corresponded to those of the uniformed military services (the Armed Forces).
(6) Miriam Dagher, 53, from Qaraqosh, said churches in the city had already been torched and religious insignia smashed.
(7) While these units wear uniforms without insignia, they drive vehicles with Russian military license plates and freely identify themselves as Russian security forces when asked by the international media and the Ukrainian military.
(8) The school’s insignia features the Christian cross and a Latin motto translated as “learning and faith.” Reactions to the change in plans Thursday afternoon ranged from disappointment to ambivalence.
(9) The US state department said the pro-Russian operations over the weekend were highly organised and "planned in advance" with militants "outfitted in bullet-proof vests and camouflage uniforms with insignia removed and carrying Russian-origin weapons".
(10) Uefa has charged the Serbian and Albanian Football Associations after the brawl involving players, supporters and stewards was sparked by a drone carrying the insignia of so-called “Greater Albania”, with the governing body expected to enforce heavy sanctions.
(11) In an attempt to prove this, they scraped off part of the pyramid’s cartouche – the insignia that denotes for whom the pyramid was built – and took it back to Germany for testing.
(12) Moscow has denied it is behind the co-ordinated operation by gangs wearing uniforms without insignia, but Britain said Russia would be assumed to be complicit unless it condemned the actions.
(13) Hodgson had arrived in a Vauxhall Insignia and, to even louder groans, he was asked whether the squad amounted to a sports car or a family saloon.
(14) Parts of the downed F-117 wreckage, such as the left wing with US Air Force insignia, the cockpit canopy, ejection seat, pilot's helmet and radio, are exhibited at Belgrade's aviation museum.
(15) It is clear that some militiamen are locals, while others, in green uniforms but without insignia, are better armed and more disciplined – and similar to the forces that were deployed before Russia's annexation of the Crimea last month.
(16) Heavily-armed troops displaying no identifying insignia and local pro-Russian militants stand guard outside a local government building in Simferopol, Ukraine on 2 March, 2014.
(17) Putin denies that the men guarding Ukrainian military installations around the Crimea are Russian soldiers, despite the uniforms without insignia that resemble Russian military uniforms: The post-Soviet space is full of such uniforms ...
(18) The Uefa president Michel Platini said he was deeply saddened by the scenes, which were sparked when a drone carrying a flag bearing a “Greater Albania” insignia was flown over the stadium, leading to the match being abandoned after 40 minutes.
(19) Photograph: Hadley Freeman Everyone is just so damn excited to be there, including the celebrities, to the point that taking frequent selfies in front of the Oscars insignia seems almost obligatory.
(20) Despite the group claiming on screen that they are not neo-Nazis, but rather upholding a moral obligation to rid Russia of paedophiles (whom they conflate with homosexuals), the VK pages of Occupy Paedophilia and other similar groups are littered with Nazi insignia.
Roundel
Definition:
(a.) A rondelay.
(a.) Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle.
(a.) A small circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
(a.) A circular spot; a sharge in the form of a small circle.
(a.) A bastion of a circular form.
Example Sentences:
(1) Just as the Roman legions carried their eagle and Christian missionaries had the cross, so the TfL roundel will be raised proudly in parts of the suburban rail network that never saw it before.
(2) Lights started to come on behind the gammariya, the roundel windows of stained glass, casting jewelled shadows on the ground below.
(3) Roundell is a former head of Impressionist and Modern Pictures at Christie’s, whose sales of masterpieces have included Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, which broke the then record for a work of art when it sold in 1987 for nearly £25m.
(4) "This is a painting that has everything," says James Roundell of Dickinson, the dealer that will handle the sale for an anonymous private collector.
(5) This included the Korean name of the DPRK written in a stylised Hangul font and a new logo on the tail, featuring a roundel like that of the KPA Air Force – albeit with different proportions – flanked by a blue, stylised bird-of-prey .
(6) Research into Le Moulin d’Alphonse was conducted by James Roundell and Simon Dickinson, British art dealers, in collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
(7) The system that we propose comprises continuous circular capsulorhexis (Neuhann and Gimbel), hydrodelamination (Brint), roundel phacoemulsification (Hara and Hara), new IOL designs, and intraoperative extensive lens epithelial cell removal.