Meaning of Patch | Babel Free

Definitions

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.
2. A surname.
3. A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.
   archaic
4. A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
5. 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.
6. A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location, time, size)
7. A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground.
   specifically
8. A local region of professional responsibility.
9. 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.
   historical
10. A piece of material used to cover a wound.
11. 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.
12. A cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch.
13. A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
14. A piece of data intended to modify a computer file by replacing a part of it.
15. A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.
16. A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
17. A cable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment.
    usually
18. A sound setting for a musical synthesizer (originally selected by means of a patch cable).
19. An overlay used to obtain a stronger impression.
    historical
20. A butterfly of the genus Chlosyne.

Equivalents

Examples

“His sleeves had patches on the elbows where different fabric had been sewn on to replace material that had worn away.”

“I can't afford to replace the roof, which is what it really needs. I'll have the roofer apply a patch.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Many people use a nicotine patch to wean themselves off of nicotine.”

“He had scratched his cornea so badly that his doctor told him to wear a patch.”

“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.”

“soundboard patch”

“A synthesizer comes with controls to store patches and edit them. Some high-end synthesizers even have floppy disks for additional patch storage.”

“Shylock: The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder, Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day More than the wild-cat;[…]”

“Caliban: What a pied ninny's this! Thou scurvy patch![…]”

“By the Master's report made in the said causes, dated the 18th of June, 1849, the said Master certified that the total amount then due and owing to the Plaintiff John Patch for such arrears of the annuities and annual payments of the said Susanna Jemima Hicks amounted to the sum of 4,489l. 15s.[…]”

“Tim Patch, also known as "Pricasso" for painting up to 20 portraits a day using his penis and sometimes his buttocks, was a guest on Breakfast with O'Neil on Thursday morning. ... "Sexpo is also about a little bit of naughty fun. Miss Nude Australia, Adrianna Starr, revealed a little more than her personality on air on Friday morning, and Pricasso produced a live demonstration of his unique talent."”

“Among my uncle Roger's farm servants, Esau Fletcher and Peter Patch came to the parsonage house.”

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