badge
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From Late Latin bagea, bagia (“‘sign’”), of Germanic origin; compare with Old English bēag, bēah (“‘bracelet, collar, crown’”).
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badge (plural badges)
- A distinctive mark, token, sign, emblem or cognizance, worn on one's clothing, as an insignia of some rank, or of the membership of an organization.
- A small nameplate, identifying the wearer, and often giving additional information.
- A card, sometimes with a barcode or magnetic strip, granting access to a certain area.
- Something characteristic; a mark; a token.
- 158? or 159?, Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act I, Scene 2:
- Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
- 158? or 159?, Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act I, Scene 2:
- (obsolete, slang, cant) A term used for one burned in the hand.
- He has got his badge, and piked: He was burned in the hand, and is at liberty.
- (nautical) A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.
- (heraldry) A distinctive mark worn by servants, retainers, and followers of royalty or nobility, who, being beneath the rank of gentlemen, have no right to armorial bearings.
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distinctive mark
nameplate
card to grant access
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something characteristic
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carved ornament on the stern of a vessel
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to badge (third-person singular simple present badges, present participle badging, simple past and past participle badged)
- (transitive) To mark or distinguish with a badge.
- To enter a restricted area by showing one's badge.
- David Simon, Homicide ISBN 0-8050-8075-9, p. 118 - Worden and James walk [...] to the [...] Courthouse [...], where they badge their way past sheriff's deputies and take the elevator to the third floor.
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to mark or distinguish with a badge
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[edit] References
- badge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [1]
