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Badge vs Imprint - What's the difference?

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Badge is a related term of imprint.


As verbs the difference between badge and imprint

is that badge is while imprint is to leave a print, impression, image, etc.

As a noun imprint is

an impression; the mark left behind by printing something.

badge

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
    • the badge''' of a society; the '''badge of a policeman
  • * Prescott
    • Tax gatherers, recognized by their official badges .
  • 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.
    • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * badge bunny * badger

    Verb

    (badg)
  • To mark or distinguish with a badge.
    • ''The television was badged as 'GE', but wasn't made by them.
  • To show a badge to.
    • He calmed down a lot when the policeman badged him.
  • To enter a restricted area by showing one's badge.
  • * (rfdate)
  • * 2003 , Joseph Wambaugh, Fire Lover , page 146:
    • 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, [...]
  • * 2004 , Sergei Hoteko, On The Fringe Of History , page 135:
    • 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.
  • * 2006 , David Pollino, Bill Pennington, Tony Bradley, Himanshu Dwivedi, Hacker's challenge 3 (page 338)
    • Aaron badged into the data center and escorted Geoff inside the large room with its many blinking green lights.

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    imprint

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) empreinte, from the past participle of empreindre, from (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.
    • The day left an imprint in my mind.
  • The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.
  • A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.
    • The shirts bore the company imprint on the right sleeve.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) empreinter, from the past participle of empreindre, from (etyl)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
    • For a fee, they can imprint the envelopes with a monogram.
  • * Prior
    • And sees his num'rous herds imprint her sands.
  • * Cowper
    • Nature imprints upon whate'er we see, / That has a heart and life in it, "Be free."
  • * John Locke
    • ideas of those two different things distinctly imprinted on his mind
  • To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's mother is.
  • To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.