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 hadpatches on the elbows where different fabric had been sewn on to replace material that had worn away.
A small piece of anything used to repair damage or abreach; 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 apatch.
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.
Before you can fix a dam, you have to apply apatch to the hole so that everything can dry off.
"Thispatch should hold until you reach the city," the mechanic said as he patted the car's hood.
A small, usuallycontrasting but always somehow different ordistinct, part of something else (location, time, size)
The world economy had a roughpatch in the 1930s.
To me, a normal cow is white with blackpatches, but Sarah's from Texas and most of the cows there have solid brown, black, or red coats.
Doesn't thatpatch of clouds looks like a bunny?
When ice skating, be sure to stay away from reeds: there are always thinpatches of ice there, and you could fall through.
(specifically) A smallarea, a smallplot of land or piece of ground.
scatteredpatches of trees or growing corn
There was a blackberrypatch down by the creek, and his grandparents called the pasture down there the cowpatch.
1940 November, “Notes and News: Railway Operation Ad Lib”, inRailway Magazine, pages611–612:
Just the suggestion that a good blueberrypatch was near would bring everything to a standstill.
A local region of professional responsibility.
2012, Bruce Grundy, Martin Hirst, Janine Little,So You Want To Be A Journalist?: Unplugged,→ISBN, page44:
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 theirpatch.
1980, Noel Parry, Michael Rustin, Carole Satyamurti,Social Work, Welfare & the State, page101:
[…] formed a contact with a man, who was the secretary of the tenants' association of a small housing estate in the social worker'spatch.
(historical) 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.
...Then thepatches 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.
(medicine) A piece of material used to cover awound.
Immediately following the incident Siemens commissioned a softwarepatch 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, thispatch was being verified by Siemens software engineers at Erlangen in Germany.
(firearms) A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gunbarrel to clean it.
(firearms) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for arifle ball, to make it fit thebore.
(often patch cable,patch cord, etc.; see alsopatch panel) Acable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment.
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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 waspatched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.
To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on.
To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt.
To employ a temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system.
2003,The Matrix Revolutions, Scene: Starting the Logos, 00:43:09 - 00:43:32
[the control panel of hovercraft The Logoshas lit up after being jumped by The Hammer] Sparky:She lives again. Crew member of The Hammer via radio:You want us topatch an uplink to reload the software, Sparky? Sparky:Yeah, that'd be swell. And can you clean the windshield while you're at it?
(generally with the particle "up") To repair or arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner
The truce between the two countries has beenpatched up.
(computing) To make the changes a patch describes; toapply a patch to the files in question. Hence:
To fix or improve a computer program without a completeupgrade.
To make a quick and possibly temporary change to a program.
To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable.
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Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page61
