What's the difference between insignia and symbol?

Insignia


Definition:

  • (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.

Symbol


Definition:

  • (n.) A visible sign or representation of an idea; anything which suggests an idea or quality, or another thing, as by resemblance or by convention; an emblem; a representation; a type; a figure; as, the lion is the symbol of courage; the lamb is the symbol of meekness or patience.
  • (n.) Any character used to represent a quantity, an operation, a relation, or an abbreviation.
  • (n.) An abstract or compendium of faith or doctrine; a creed, or a summary of the articles of religion.
  • (n.) That which is thrown into a common fund; hence, an appointed or accustomed duty.
  • (n.) Share; allotment.
  • (n.) An abbreviation standing for the name of an element and consisting of the initial letter of the Latin or New Latin name, or sometimes of the initial letter with a following one; as, C for carbon, Na for sodium (Natrium), Fe for iron (Ferrum), Sn for tin (Stannum), Sb for antimony (Stibium), etc. See the list of names and symbols under Element.
  • (v. t.) To symbolize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
  • (2) In Tirana, Francis lauded the mutual respect and trust between Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians in Albania as a "precious gift" and a powerful symbol in today's world.
  • (3) They operate on a mystical and symbolic plane, which is foreign to the practice of "Western" medicine.
  • (4) They include the Francoist slogan "Arriba España" and the yoke-and-arrows symbol of the far right Falange, whose members killed the women.
  • (5) Plasma drug concentrations, subjective self-ratings, and the digit symbol substitution test (DSST) were evaluated during 24 hours after dosage.
  • (6) YOH shifted the healthy subjects' mood towards feeling panicked, elevated systolic blood pressure and plasma prolactin concentrations, reduced digit symbol substitution, and induced drowsiness and passiveness.
  • (7) Brazil and Argentina unite in protest against culture of sexual violence Read more The symbolic power of so many women standing together proves that focusing on victims does not mean portraying women as passive.
  • (8) There on the street is Young Jo whose last words were, "I am wery symbolic, sir."
  • (9) Third, the appropriation of these symbolic forms of society, self, and the emotions by the current Iranian Islamic state and the role of the state in defining the meaning and legitimacy of emotions and their expression is analyzed.
  • (10) The philosopher defended his actions by referring to Pierre Bourdieu's concept of symbolic violence, naturally enough, but it didn't wash with HR.
  • (11) This museum is a symbol of the artistic vitality of Paris.
  • (12) The best was the oral version of the Symbol Digit Modalities test, which by itself accounted for 70% of the variance of the full-sized-vehicle driving score.
  • (13) The performance tests included tracking, choice reaction, flicker fusion, exophoria, nystagmus, digit symbol substitution and the subjective assessment of mood.
  • (14) Besides, Francis says, once their reformation had gone on longer than their initial career, the rest of the band were starting to feel wary about just playing the old material, particularly when they found themselves booked to play a Canadian casino, the kind of venue that is traditionally the preserve of oldies acts: "It was just sort of symbolic, like ha-ha, here we are, at the casino.
  • (15) To investigate this issue, data from two previous papers were reanalysed to investigate the complete time course of precuing target location with either: (1) a peripheral cue that may draw attention reflexively, or (2) a central, symbolic cue that may require attention to be directed voluntarily.
  • (16) This more recent system has developed embedded wlithin the posteriorly located analytic and mnemonic cortical tissues and provides for communications between individuals within the species at symbolic, verbal levels.
  • (17) The top of the fence can also be manipulated in certain ways such as including curvature outward at the top of the fence to make scaling it much more difficult for most.” Some critics, including Washington DC congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, have warned against excessive fortification, but the report argues: “We recognise all the competing considerations that may go into questions regarding the fence, but believe that protection of the President and the White House must be the higher priority.” “Every additional second of response time provided by a fence that is more difficult to climb makes a material difference in ensuring the President’s safety and protecting the symbol that is the White House.” The panel also urges that a new head of secret service, to replace ousted head Julia Pierson, be brought in from outside the agency, ensuring it is better staffed and trained in future.
  • (18) "They said I was speaking about things I should not be speaking about ... insulting national symbols.
  • (19) It would be symbolic – not legally binding – but Pearson’s proposal is not just constitutional poetry.
  • (20) The task was to discriminate the orientation of the middle [symbol: see text].