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Patch

noun
1.
A small contrasting part of something.  Synonyms: dapple, fleck, maculation, speckle, spot.  "A leopard's spots" , "A patch of clouds" , "Patches of thin ice" , "A fleck of red"
2.
A small area of ground covered by specific vegetation.  Synonyms: plot, plot of ground, plot of land.  "A cabbage patch" , "A briar patch"
3.
A piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole.
4.
A period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition.  Synonyms: piece, spell, while.  "I need to rest for a piece" , "A spell of good weather" , "A patch of bad weather"
5.
A short set of commands to correct a bug in a computer program.
6.
A connection intended to be used for a limited time.  Synonym: temporary hookup.
7.
Sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment).  Synonyms: darn, mend.
8.
A protective cloth covering for an injured eye.  Synonym: eyepatch.
9.
A piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body.  Synonym: bandage.
verb
(past & past part. patched; pres. part. patching)
1.
To join or unite the pieces of.  Synonym: piece.
2.
Provide with a patch; also used metaphorically.
3.
Mend by putting a patch on.  Synonym: patch up.
4.
Repair by adding pieces.  Synonym: piece.



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"Patch" Quotes from Famous Books



... sky-line dropped a few yards, showing ragged through the metal cornice and sickly brick chimneys of a tenement row only a degree less forbidding than the first. The street itself was a mere refuse patch smeared out over bumpy cobbles. The visitor entered the tenement at 65, between reeking barrels which had waited overlong ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... before ever so many fine folks, and have eat his crumbs out of my hand at my first call; but, poor fellow! it's not his fault now. He does not know me now, sir, since my accident, because of this great black patch.' ...
— Forgotten Tales of Long Ago • E. V. Lucas
... overhead and rolling in billowy formations among the dales. Sometimes a breath of wind would convulse their ranks, causing them to trail in long silvery pennants across the sky and, opening a rift in their gossamer texture, would reveal, far down below, a glimmer of olives shining in the sunlight or a patch of blue sea, framed in an aureole of peacock hues. Stones and grass were clammy ...
— South Wind • Norman Douglas
... "Not I. Patch yourself up and I'll meet you at your convenience. There's more urgent matter. When the boy comes to himself—if ever he comes to himself—I must ...
— The Highwayman • H.C. Bailey
... it is composed of the dozen elements aforesaid. If I ask what wheat-straw is made of, you answer, the dozen. If I ask what a thistle is made of, you say the dozen. There are a good many milk-weeds in my strawberry patch, and I am glad to know that the milk-weed and the strawberry are both composed of the same dozen elements. Manure is the food of plants, and the food of plants is composed of the above dozen elements, and every ...
— Talks on Manures • Joseph Harris


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