patch
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Etymology 1
From Middle English pacche, of uncertain origin.
[edit] Noun
patch (plural patches)
- A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole.
- His sleeves had patches on the elbows, where the material had worn away.
- A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
- I can't afford to replace the roof, which is what it really needs. I'll have the roofer apply a patch.
- A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty.
- (medicine) A piece of material used to cover a wound.
- (medicine) An adhesive piece of material, impregnated with a drug, which is worn on the skin; the drug being slowly absorbed over a period of time.
- Many people use a nicotine patch to wean themselves off of nicotine.
- (medicine) A cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch.
- He had scratched his cornea so badly that his doctor told him to wear a patch.
- A small area, a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn.
- A period of time.
- The world economy had a rough patch in the 1930s.
- (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (figuratively) A fit.
- A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
- (computing) A file describing changes made to a computer file or files, usually changes made to a computer program that fix a programming bug.
- (computing) A patch file, a file used for input to a patch program.
- A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.
- A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
- (often patch cable, patch cord, etc.; see also patch panel) A cable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment.
[edit] Synonyms
- (piece of black silk): beauty spot
- (a period of time): spell
- (computing: file describing changes): diff file
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Translations
piece of cloth used to repair a garment
piece of black silk stuck to the face
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medicine: piece of material used to cover a wound
medicine: adhesive piece of material impregnated with a drug
medicine: cover worn over a damaged eye — see eyepatch
small piece of ground
figuratively: fit — see fit
guns: block to do away with the effect of dispart in sighting
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paltry fellow — see fool
computing: file describing changes made to source code
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computing: patch file — see patch file
piece of greased cloth used to fit a rifle ball to the bore
cable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment
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[edit] Verb
patch (third-person singular simple present patches, present participle patching, simple past and past participle patched)
- To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.
- To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces fastened on.
- To repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.
- To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.
- To make of pieces or patches like a quilt.
- To repair as with patches.
- To arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner; – generally with up; as, to patch up a truce.
- (computing) To make the changes a patch describes; to apply a patch to the files in question. Hence:
- To fix or improve a computer program without a complete upgrade.
- To make a quick and possibly temporary change to a program.
- To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable.
- I'll need to patch the preamp output to the mixer
[edit] Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:repair
[edit] Translations
repair clumsily
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adorn with patches (small pieces of black silk)
make of pieces or patches
[edit] See also
[edit] Etymology 2
[edit] Noun
patch (plural patches)
[edit] External links
- patch in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- patch in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- patch at OneLook Dictionary Search
