What is the difference between badge and pin?
badge | pin | Synonyms |
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.
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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)
A small device, made (usually) of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
* Milton
A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
(in plural'' pins ; ''informal ) A leg.
(electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
(US) A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.
(chess) A scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to attack.
(curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
* Shakespeare
(dated) A mood, a state of being.
* Cowper
One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
(medicine, obsolete) caligo
A thing of small value; a trifle.
* Spectator
A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
(engineering) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
The tenon of a dovetail joint.
(often followed by a preposition such as'' to''' ''or'' ' on ) To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
(chess, usually, in the passive) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
(wrestling) To pin down (someone).
To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
(computing, GUI) To attach (an icon, application, etc.) to another item.
Pin is a synonym of badge.
As nouns the difference between badge and pin
is that badge is 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 while pin is a small device, made (usually) of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.As verbs the difference between badge and pin
is that badge is to mark or distinguish with a badge while pin is (often followed by a preposition such as to or on) To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.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 pin)Noun
(en noun)- With pins of adamant / And chains they made all fast.
- Pull the pin out of the grenade before throwing it at the enemy.
- I'm not so good on my pins these days.
- The UK standard connector for domestic mains electricity has three pins .
- The shot landed right on the pin .
- the very pin of his heart cleft
- a merry pin
- (Shakespeare)
- He did not care a pin for her.
Synonyms
* (small nail) nail, tack * (cylinder of wood or metal) peg * (games) skittle * (jewellery fastened with a pin) brooch * (accessory) badgeHyponyms
* (jewellery fastened with a pin) breastpin * (chess) absolute pin, relative pin, partial pinDerived terms
* belaying pin * breastpin * clothespin / clothes pin * drawing pin * gudgeon pin * on a pin * on pins and needles * pincushion * pinhead * pinhole * pin money * pinner * pinprick * pins and needles * pintle * pin-up, pinup * rolling pin * safety pinSee also
* needleVerb
- to pin a window to the Taskbar