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Another word for emblem

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Noun

  1. An object associated with and serving to identify something else

      1. Something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention, especially a material object used to represent something invisible:
      2. An instance that typifies a broader pattern or situation:
      3. A printed or written sign used to represent an operation, element, quantity, quality, or relation, as in mathematics or music.
      1. To regard as arising from a particular cause or source; ascribe:
      2. To regard (a work, for example) as belonging to or produced by a specified agent, place, or time:
      3. A quality or characteristic inherent in or ascribed to someone or something.
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Another word for emblem

Noun
      1. A national flag displayed on ships and aircraft, often with the special insignia of a branch or unit of the armed forces.
      2. A standard or banner, as of a military unit.
      3. A commissioned rank in the US Navy or Coast Guard that is below lieutenant junior grade.
      1. Serving as or conforming to an established or accepted measurement or value:
      2. Widely recognized or employed as a model of authority or excellence:
      3. Acceptable but of less than top quality:
      1. A piece of cloth attached to a staff and used as a standard by a monarch, military commander, or knight.
      2. The flag of a nation, state, or army.
      3. A piece of cloth bearing a motto or legend, as of a club.
      1. A long, tapering, usually triangular flag, used on ships for signaling or identification.
      2. A flag or an emblem similar in shape to a ship's pennant.
      3. A flag that symbolizes the championship of a league, especially a professional baseball league.
      1. A piece of cloth, usually rectangular, of distinctive color and design, used as a symbol, standard, signal, or emblem.
      2. National or other allegiance, as symbolized by a flag:
      3. A ship carrying the flag of an admiral; a flagship.
      1. An inscription placed usually at the end of a book, giving facts about its publication.
      2. A publisher's emblem or trademark placed usually on the spine or the title page of a book.
      1. A design composed of one or more letters, typically the initials of a name, used as an identifying mark.
      2. To mark with a design composed of one or more letters.
      1. A symbol or design that identifies a brand.
      1. A single piece of type bearing two or more usually separate elements.
      2. A logo.
      1. A mark indicating quality or excellence.
      2. A mark used in Great Britain to stamp gold, silver, and platinum articles that meet established standards of purity.
      3. Any of various authorized marks stamped on gold, silver, and platinum articles to indicate where, when, or by whom they were made or assayed.
      1. To affect strongly, often favorably:
      2. To produce or attempt to produce a vivid impression or image of:
      3. To mark or stamp with pressure:
      1. A brief statement used to express a principle, goal, or ideal:
      1. The combination of mental characteristics and behavior that distinguishes a person or group.
      2. The distinguishing nature of something.
      3. Moral strength; integrity:
      1. A copy or model that represents or reproduces something in a greatly reduced size.
      2. Something small of its class.
      3. A small painting executed with great detail, often on a surface such as ivory or vellum.
      1. The emblems and symbols of royalty, such as the crown and scepter.
      2. The rights and privileges of royalty.
      3. The distinguishing symbols of a rank, office, order, or society.
      1. A flat piece of metal stamped with a design or an inscription commemorating an event or a person, often given as an award.
      2. A piece of metal stamped with a religious device, used as an object of veneration or commemoration.
      3. To win a medal, as in a sports contest:
      1. Something that one keeps because of the memories it calls to mind.
      1. A token of remembrance; a memento.
      1. The act of identifying.
      2. The state of being identified.
      3. Proof or evidence of identity.
      1. A visible trace or impression, such as a line or spot:
      2. A name, logo, or other indicator used to indicate ownership, origin, or level of quality.
      3. A notch made in an animal's ear or hide to indicate ownership.
      1. A bookmark.
      2. A tombstone.
      3. A milestone.
      1. a person or thing that reminds; thing to help one remember something else
      1. A crude figure or dummy representing a hated person or group.
      2. A likeness or image, especially of a person.
      1. The act of representing or the state of being represented.
      2. An image or likeness of something.
      3. An account or statement, as of facts, allegations, or arguments.
      1. A number of people or things having in common traits or characteristics that distinguish them as a group or class:
      2. A person or thing having the features of a group or class:
      3. An example or a model having the ideal features of a group or class; an embodiment:
      1. A contrivance or invention serving a particular purpose, especially a machine used to perform one or more relatively simple tasks.
      2. A literary contrivance, such as parallelism or personification, used to achieve a particular effect.
      3. A decorative design, figure, or pattern, as one used in embroidery.
      1. A tabard or surcoat blazoned with bearings.
      2. An arrangement of bearings, usually depicted on and around a shield, that indicates ancestry and distinctions.
      3. A representation of bearings.
      1. A usually ornamental tuft, ridge, or similar projection on the head of a bird or other animal.
      2. An elevated, irregularly toothed ridge on the stigmas of certain flowers.
      3. A ridge or an appendage on a plant part, such as on a leaf or petal.
      1. The perception of the different wavelengths of light. It is possible to create almost all visible colors using two systems of primary colors. Transmitted colors use red, green and blue (RGB), and reflected colors use cyan (light blue), magenta (purplish-red), yellow and black (CMYK). Color displays use RGB (colors are added to create white) and color printing uses CMYK (colors are subtracted to create white).
      1. A device or material that is used to close off or fasten an opening or connection, especially to prevent the escape of a liquid or gas:
      2. An airtight closure:
      3. Something, such as a piece of tape, that is placed on a product or package to show that the contents have not been tampered with.
      1. A badge of office, rank, membership, or nationality; an emblem.
      2. A distinguishing sign.
      1. To regard as arising from a particular cause or source; ascribe:
      2. To regard (a work, for example) as belonging to or produced by a specified agent, place, or time:
      3. A quality or characteristic inherent in or ascribed to someone or something.
      1. A device or emblem worn as an insignia of rank, office, or membership in an organization.
      2. An emblem given as an award or honor.
      3. A characteristic mark or indicative trait:
      1. Something that suggests the presence or existence of a fact, condition, or quality:
      2. An act or gesture used to convey an idea, a desire, information, or a command:
      3. Sign language.
      1. Something serving as an indication, proof, or expression of something else; a sign:
      2. Something that signifies or evidences authority, validity, or identity:
      3. A specific instance of a phenomenon or a class of things, as of a linguistic feature in a sample of a person's speech, that can be isolated for study or analysis.
      1. To conceive or fashion in the mind; invent:
      2. To formulate a plan for; devise:
      3. To make a graphic or schematic representation of (something), especially as a plan for its structure:
      1. A representation of the form of a person or object, such as a painting or photograph.
      2. A sculptured likeness.
      3. An optically formed duplicate, counterpart, or other representative reproduction of an object, especially an optical reproduction formed by a lens or mirror.
      1. A written or printed symbol representing something other than a letter, especially a number.
      2. Mathematical calculations:
      3. An amount represented in numbers:
      1. Something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention, especially a material object used to represent something invisible:
      2. An instance that typifies a broader pattern or situation:
      3. A printed or written sign used to represent an operation, element, quantity, quality, or relation, as in mathematics or music.
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Sentence Examples

  • It was a national emblem, the test of religion and patriotism.

  • On the sides of the cake, she drew the Toyota emblem, finishing up with some scrolls.

  • The aim of the society was to keep an eye on the government; its emblem on its papers was simply an open eye.

  • But these were dreams which did not hold him long, and he would have been scandalized had he known that his name was subsequently used as the emblem of a political and religious party.

  • They, however, had no confidence in the arch, which, as the Hindu says, "never sleeps but is always tending to its own destruction," so that the pointed arch, which had almost become the emblem of the Mahommedan religion, had to be dispensed with for the covered aisles which surrounded the great court, and in the triple entrance gateway the form of an arch only was retained, as it was constructed with horizontal courses of masonry for the haunches, and with long slabs of stone resting one against the other at the top. A similar construction was employed in the great mosque at Ajmere, built A.D.1200-1211at the same time as the Delhi mosque.

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