Badge vs Blazon - What's the difference?
badge | blazon |
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.
* Prescott
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.
* {{quote-book, year=158? or 159?, author=, title=Titus Andronicus, section=Act I, Scene 2
, passage=Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge .}}
A brand on the hand of a thief, etc.
(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.
To mark or distinguish with a badge.
To show a badge to.
To enter a restricted area by showing one's badge.
* (rfdate)
* 2003 , Joseph Wambaugh, Fire Lover , page 146:
* 2004 , Sergei Hoteko, On The Fringe Of History , page 135:
* 2006 , David Pollino, Bill Pennington, Tony Bradley, Himanshu Dwivedi, Hacker's challenge 3 (page 338)
(heraldry) A verbal or written description of a coat of arms.
* 1894 , James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry :
(heraldry) A formalized language for describing a coat of arms.
* 1997 , Gerard J. Brault, Early Blazon :
(heraldry) A coat of arms or a banner depicting a coat of arms.
* Sir Walter Scott
Ostentatious display, verbal or otherwise; publication; description; record.
* Collier
* Shakespeare
To describe a coat of arms.
* Addison
* 1889 , Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry
To make widely or generally known, to proclaim.
* Shakespeare, , Act VI-III:
* Trumbull
* Cowper
To display conspicuously or publicly.
To shine; to be conspicuous.
To deck; to embellish; to adorn.
* Garth
As verbs the difference between badge and blazon
is that badge is while blazon is to describe a coat of arms.As a noun blazon is
(heraldry) a verbal or written description of a coat of arms.badge
English
Noun
(en noun)- the badge''' of a society; the '''badge of a policeman
- Tax gatherers, recognized by their official badges .
- He has got his badge , and piked: He was burned in the hand, and is at liberty.
Derived terms
* badge bunny * badgerVerb
(badg)- ''The television was badged as 'GE', but wasn't made by them.
- He calmed down a lot when the policeman badged him.
- And Patterson didn't hear that Jack Egger, the studio's director of security, said he'd seen John Orr badge his way through the pedestrian gate sometime before 4:00 pm, when the fire was still raging, [...]
- Our regional commissioner, his assistant commissioner and our district director, along with their wives, were hoofing it to the rotunda. Apparently they didn't try and badge their way through.
- Aaron badged into the data center and escorted Geoff inside the large room with its many blinking green lights.
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English
(wikipedia blazon)Noun
(en noun)- ...it should never be forgotten that the best blazon is that which is the most perspicuous
- We must banish, therefore, the persistent but wholly erroneous notion that the heralds invented'' many of the terms used in blazon and borrowed the rest from the ''everyday lexicon of terms...
- Their blazon o'er his towers displayed.
- Obtrude the blazon of their exploits upon the company.
- Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit, / Do give thee fivefold blazon .
Verb
(en verb)- the coat of arms, which I am not herald enough to blazon into English
- After Blazoning the Shield, you proceed to the exterior ornaments viz.: The Helmet, Lambrequin, Crest, Supporters, Badge, and Motto
- O thou goddess/ thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'st / in these two princely boys.
- There pride sits blazoned on th' unmeaning brow.
- to blazon his own worthless name
- She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form.