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🎖️ A sign of status 🆔 To give an ID 🔔 To mark with symbol
to badge

to badge

7.0
To put a small dot on an app icon to show new notifications
  • verb
  • /bædʒ/
  • Texting
translation icon : marcar (con una insignia)
  • Whenever there's a new message, the system will badge the chat icon with a red dot.

Examples

  • The app will badge your notifications to let you know about any updates.

  • Developers need to badge the interface to indicate when the user has new tasks.

  • We looked at, you know, how much time it would take for someone to badge in and walk through.

  • Oh my God, it's link and bash that badge the cool guy cool.

  • I was now, you know, someone trying out to get badged in the SAS in New Zealand.

Compounds

badge of honor
17 3.9

A sign people keep or show because they are proud of something they did

merit badge
  • US
12 2.8

A small cloth badge given to scouts for learning a skill

How Visible

to flag
20 3.7
to badge
  • Texting
7.0
to mark
203 1.4
to tag
  • Texting
44 2.4

Surface Forms

badge infinitive
badged past
badged past participle
badging present participle
badges third person singular

Etymology

The tech verb badge uses the same idea of a small 'mark' that shows a state or number, so apps 'badge' icons with a dot or number to show unread messages or alerts. That's why badging on an app is a digital way to show status or notifications.