patch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English patche, of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of earlier Middle English placche (“patch, spot, piece of cloth”), from Old English *plæċċ, *pleċċ (“a spot, mark, patch”), from Proto-West Germanic *plakkju, from Proto-Germanic *plakjō (“spot, stain”). For the loss of l compare pat from Middle English platten. Germanic cognates would then include Middle English plecke, dialectal English pleck (“plot of ground, patch”), West Frisian plak (“place, spot”), Low German Plakk, Plakke (“spot, piece, patch”), Dutch plek (“spot, place, stain, patch”), Dutch plak (“piece, slab”), Swedish plagg (“garment”), Faroese plagg (“cloth, rag”).
Or, possibly a variant of Old French pieche, dialectal variant of piece (“piece”). Compare also Old Occitan petaç (“patch”).
Inflected forms:
form: patches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: patches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: patching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: patched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: patched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: His sleeves had patches on the elbows where different fabric had been sewn on to replace material that had worn away.
gloss: A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
pos: noun
examples: I can't afford to replace the roof, which is what it really needs. I'll have the roofer apply a patch.
gloss: A piece of any size, used to repair something for a temporary period only, or that it is temporary because it is not meant to last long or will be removed as soon as a proper repair can be made, which will happen in the near future.
pos: noun
examples: Before you can fix a dam, you have to apply a patch to the hole so that everything can dry off.
"This patch should hold until you reach the city," the mechanic said as he patted the car's hood.
gloss: A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location, time, size)
pos: noun
examples: The world economy had a rough patch in the 1930s.
To me, a normal cow is white with black patches, but Sarah's from Texas and most of the cows there have solid brown, black, or red coats.
Doesn't that patch of clouds looks like a bunny?
When ice skating, be sure to stay away from reeds: there are always thin patches of ice there, and you could fall through.
gloss: A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground.
pos: noun
tags: specifically
examples: scattered patches of trees or growing corn
There was a blackberry patch down by the creek, and his grandparents called the pasture down there the cow patch.
Just the suggestion that a good blueberry patch was near would bring everything to a standstill.
gloss: A local region of professional responsibility.
pos: noun
examples: There is a lot to be said in praise of the local or regional outlet that keeps very closely across the doings and news in their patch.
[…] formed a contact with a man, who was the secretary of the tenants' association of a small housing estate in the social worker's patch.
gloss: A small piece of black silk stuck on the face or neck to heighten beauty by contrast, worn by ladies in the 17th and 18th centuries; an imitation beauty mark.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Your black patches you wear variously.
...Then the patches had to be placed—patches full of sentiment, coquetry, and bits of opinions as minute as themselves. Essences and powder had to he scattered together, and Henrietta's long black tresses gathered into a mass which might fairly set all the orders of architecture at defiance.
gloss: A piece of material used to cover a wound.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: Many people use a nicotine patch to wean themselves off of nicotine.
gloss: A cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch.
pos: noun
examples: He had scratched his cornea so badly that his doctor told him to wear a patch.
gloss: A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
pos: noun
gloss: A piece of data intended to modify a computer file by replacing a part of it.
pos: noun
examples: Immediately following the incident Siemens commissioned a software patch that will allow units which protectively shut down below 49Hz to recover themselves without the need of a reboot or laptop when the frequency rises to 49.5Hz. At the beginning of September, this patch was being verified by Siemens software engineers at Erlangen in Germany.
gloss: A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.
pos: noun
gloss: A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
pos: noun
gloss: A cable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment.
pos: noun
tags: usually
examples: soundboard patch
gloss: A sound setting for a musical synthesizer (originally selected by means of a patch cable).
pos: noun
examples: A synthesizer comes with controls to store patches and edit them. Some high-end synthesizers even have floppy disks for additional patch storage.
gloss: An overlay used to obtain a stronger impression.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A butterfly of the genus Chlosyne.
pos: noun
gloss: To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
pos: verb
examples: My coat needs patching.
That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.
gloss: To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on.
pos: verb
gloss: To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt.
pos: verb
examples: I patched together this quilt.
gloss: To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt.
pos: verb
gloss: To employ a temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system.
pos: verb
examples: [the control panel of hovercraft The Logos has lit up after being jumped by The Hammer]
Sparky: She lives again.
Crew member of The Hammer via radio: You want us to patch an uplink to reload the software, Sparky?
Sparky: Yeah, that'd be swell. And can you clean the windshield while you're at it?
gloss: To repair or arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner
pos: verb
examples: The truce between the two countries has been patched up.
gloss: To make the changes a patch describes; to apply a patch to the files in question. Hence:
pos: verb
gloss: To make the changes a patch describes; to apply a patch to the files in question. Hence:
pos: verb
gloss: To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable.
pos: verb
examples: I'll need to patch the preamp output to the mixer.
Related words: diff
diff file
Derived words: agropatch
autopatch
backpatch
bad patch
bald patch
bare patch
briar-patch
brood patch
cabbage patch
cold patch
cornpatch
cross-patch
cryptopatch
Dogpatch
eye patch
Gabor patch
garbage patch
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
herald patch
hot patch
hot-patch
interpatch
intrapatch
macropatch
micropatch
monkey patch
morale patch
multipatch
nanopatch
nicotine patch
not a patch on
oilpatch
oil-patch
oil patch
patch bay
patchbay
patchboard
patch-box
patch box
patch clamp
patchcoat
patch file
patch ice
patchless
patchlike
patch pocket
patchset
patch test
patch up
patch-up
patchwise
patchword
patchwork
patchwriting
patchy
pea patch
Peyer's patch
powder-down patch
purple patch
Rembrandt patch
rough patch
soul patch
surface patch
taro-patch fiddle
tear up the pea patch
The Patch
transdermal patch
truck patch
yellow patch
mispatch
patchable
patch over
patch together
prepatch
repatch
unpatch
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: رُقْعَة
roman: ruqʕa
lang: Aromanian
word: peaticã
lang: Azerbaijani
word: yamaq
lang: Bashkir
word: ямау
roman: yamaw
lang: Basque
word: adabaki
lang: Bulgarian
word: кръпка
roman: krǎpka
lang: Catalan
word: pedaç
lang: Ngazidja Comorian
word: ipvahu
lang: Czech
word: záplata
lang: Danish
word: lap
lang: Dutch
word: lap
lang: Finnish
word: paikka
lang: French
word: pièce
lang: Galician
word: remendo
lang: Galician
word: romendo
lang: Galician
word: parche
lang: Galician
word: tomba
lang: Galician
word: botaina
lang: Galician
word: encano
lang: Galician
word: calazo
lang: Galician
word: trapallo
lang: German
word: Flicken
lang: German
word: Lappen
lang: Gothic
word: 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍄
roman: plat
lang: Greek
word: μπάλωμα
roman: báloma
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἐπίβλημα
roman: epíblēma
lang: Ancient Greek
word: πλήρωμα
roman: plḗrōma
lang: Hebrew
word: טלאי
roman: tlay
lang: Hungarian
word: folt
lang: Icelandic
word: bót
lang: Icelandic
word: pjatla
lang: Indonesian
word: tambalan
lang: Irish
word: paiste
lang: Italian
word: pezza
lang: Italian
word: toppa
lang: Khmer
word: បំណះ
roman: bɑmnah
lang: Latin
word: sūtēla
lang: Latin
word: pannus
lang: Lithuanian
word: lopas
lang: Macedonian
word: ла́тица
roman: lática
lang: Macedonian
word: за́крпа
roman: zákrpa
lang: Macedonian
word: а́лтица
roman: áltica
lang: Middle English
word: clout
lang: Occitan
word: pedaçon
lang: Occitan
word: pedaç
lang: Occitan
word: tròç
lang: Occitan
word: remenda
lang: Occitan
word: pèça
lang: Persian
word: پینه
roman: pine
lang: Persian
word: وصله
roman: vasle
lang: Polish
word: łata
lang: Polish
word: łatka
lang: Portuguese
word: remendo
lang: Romanian
word: petic
lang: Russian
word: запла́та
roman: zapláta
lang: Russian
word: запла́тка
roman: zaplátka
lang: Russian
word: ла́тка
roman: látka
lang: Slovak
word: záplata
lang: Spanish
word: parche
lang: Spanish
word: cureta
lang: Swahili
word: kiraka
lang: Swedish
word: lapp
lang: Turkish
word: yama
lang: Turkmen
word: ýama
lang: Ukrainian
word: ла́тка
roman: látka
lang: Ukrainian
word: ла́та
roman: láta
lang: Vietnamese
word: mảnh vá
lang: Vietnamese
word: miếng vá
lang: Zazaki
word: pine (diq)
lang: Finnish
word: tilkku
lang: Italian
word: pezza
lang: Italian
word: panno
lang: Italian
word: straccio
lang: Polish
word: flejtuch
lang: Catalan
word: apedaçar
lang: Finnish
word: paikata
lang: Finnish
word: paikkailla
lang: Māori
word: pāpaki
lang: Esperanto
word: fliki
lang: French
word: patcher
lang: Galician
word: parchear
lang: German
word: patchen
lang: Portuguese
word: corrigir
lang: Spanish
word: parchear