Patch

Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 1) 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.
 * 1) A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty.
 * 2)  A piece of material used to cover a wound.
 * 3)  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.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1) A small area, a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn.
 * 2) A period of time.
 * The world economy had a rough patch in the 1930s.
 * 1)  A fit.
 * 2) A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
 * 3)  A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.
 * 4)  A file describing changes made to a computer file or files, usually changes made to a computer program that fix a programming bug.
 * 5)  A patch file, a file used for input to a patch program.
 * 6) A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.
 * 7) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
 * 8)  A cable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment.

Synonyms

 * beauty spot
 * spell
 * diff file

Derived terms

 * apply a patch
 * cabbage patch
 * not a patch on
 * patch file
 * patch up
 * patchwork
 * patchy

Proper noun

 * 1)  The program that updates old versions of files, based on a record of differences with the newer versions.

Verb

 * 1) To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.
 * 2) To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces fastened on.
 * 3) To repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.
 * 4) To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.
 * 5) To make of pieces or patches like a quilt.
 * 6) To repair as with patches.
 * 7) To arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner; – generally with up; as, to patch up a truce.
 * 8)  To make the changes a patch describes; to apply a patch to the files in question.  Hence:
 * 9) To fix or improve a computer program without a complete upgrade.
 * 10) To make a quick and possibly temporary change to a program.
 * 11) To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable.
 * I'll need to patch the preamp output to the mixer

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:repair

Adjectives for Patch
vivid; broken; ugly; thrifty; phosphorescent; superficial; numerous (pi); insignificant; single.

Adverbs for Patch
laboriously; awkwardly; deftly; eccentrically; thriftily; superficially; geometrically; pathetically.

Thesaurus
Hershey bar, X ray, actinic ray, actinism, area, atomic beam, atomic ray, aviation badge, badge, bailiwick, bar, bat out, beam, beam of light, birthmark, blaze, blemish, block, bloodstain, blot, blotch, blur, botch, brand, bring to terms, bungle, bury the hatchet, caste mark, check, checkmark, chevron, chicken, chip, cicatrix, clearing, clos, close, cobble, come to terms, commission, condition, corn field, cover, croft, crumb, cultivated land, cut, dab, dapple, dappledness, dappleness, darn, dash off, daub, discoloration, do anyhow, do by halves, do carelessly, do offhand, do up, doctor, dot, dottedness, eagle, earmark, enclave, engraving, epaulet, episode, experience, eyesore, fake up, field, fix, fix up, fleck, flick, flyspeck, forty, freckle, freckliness, fudge up, gamma ray, gash, gleam, graving, ground, hack, hash mark, hayfield, heal, improvise, infrared ray, insignia of branch, interval, invisible radiation, jot, jury-rig, knock off, knock out, knock together, knock up, kraal, lash up, leam, lentigo, lot, macula, maculation, macule, mark, marking, mend, mole, morceau, morsel, mottle, mottledness, nevus, nick, nip, notch, oak leaf, organization insignia, overhaul, overseas bar, pad, paddy, pale, parachute badge, parcel, parcel of land, patch together, patch up, pencil, period, photon, piece, piece of land, pip, plat, plot, plot of ground, point, pointillage, pointillism, polka dot, pound out, prick, puncture, put in commission, put in order, put in repair, put in shape, quad, quadrangle, radiation, radiorays, ray, ray of light, ready, real estate, rebuild, recap, reconcile, recondition, reconstruct, reinforce, reinforcement, repair, resolve, responsibility, retread, revamp, ribbon, ribbon of light, rice paddy, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, scar, scarification, score, scotch, scrap, scratch, scratching, section, segment, service, service stripe, set right, set straight, set to rights, settle, sew up, shiver, shoulder patch, shoulder sleeve insignia, shred, slap up, sliver, smear, smirch, smithereen, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, snick, snip, snippet, solar rays, spatter, speck, speckle, speckliness, spell, splash, splatter, splinter, splotch, spot, spottedness, spottiness, spread eagle, square, stage, stain, star, stigma, stipple, stippledness, stippling, stitch, straighten out, strawberry mark, streak, stream, stream of light, streamer, stripe, submarine badge, tag, taint, tarnish, tatter, tattoo, tattoo mark, territory, throw off, throw together, tick, time, tinker, tinker up, tittle, toss off, toss out, toss together, tract, trifle with, ultraviolet ray, vamp, violet ray, watermark, wheat field, whomp up

Etymology
From pacche:, of uncertain origin.

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