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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

... trade routes to the interior having drawn the caravans in other directions. Soon it turned up the side of the ravine. The sayall bushes began to grow more densely, and the wady spread to a great width. Beyond a patch of pebbles lay a brown carpet of tough grass. In the center stood seven date-trees and a considerable number of stunted bushes, these latter differing from the sayall only in the size of their thorns, which were fully two inches long and seemingly untouchable. Yet, ...

— The Wheel O' Fortune • Louis Tracy

... involved nothing less than the imminent peril of that political supremacy which the party had so long enjoyed. With Mr. Atwood as candidate, success might be considered as certain. To a short-sighted and a weak man, it would have appeared the obvious policy to patch up the difficulty, and, at all events, to conquer, under whatever leadership, and with whatever allies. But it was one of those junctures which test the difference between the man of principle and the mere politician—the man of moral courage and him who yields to temporary ...

— Sketches and Studies • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... dog's barking, the old captain, who was at work in a small potato patch he cultivated, came hobbling to meet the boys as they tied ...

— The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol • Howard Payson

... up yonder," said the little man. "It was smashed to atoms in the world and thrown away. But, ho, ho, ho! there is nothing that I cannot mend, and a mended fiddle is an amended fiddle. It improves the tone. Now teach me that dance, and I will patch up all the rest of the ...

— The Brownies and Other Tales • Juliana Horatia Ewing

... heart from his apparent mood to speak of some facts of the morning that had moved her fancy. "What a strange little nest it is up here among these half-thawed hills! and imagine the winter, the fifteen or twenty months of it, they must have every year. I could almost have shed tears over that patch of corn that had escaped the early August frosts. I suppose this is a sort of Indian summer that we are enjoying now, and that the cold weather will set in after a week or two. My cousin and I thought that Tadoussac ...

— A Chance Acquaintance • W. D. Howells

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