Frompatch +work.
patchwork (countable anduncountable,pluralpatchworks)
- Awork, such as ablanket, composed of many different colors and shapes, sewn together to make an interesting whole.
- (figurative) Any kind ofcreation that makes use of many differentaspects to create one whole piece.
Bill took all of hispoetry and put it together in a folder. It made up apatchwork of his life.
2022 November 17,Paul Salopek, “A ‘Slow Storytelling’ Writing and Photography Workshop Boosts Conservation in China”, inNational Geographic[1]:Everything about China is super-sized: The five new parks, which in some cases stitched together an olderpatchwork of conservation zones, sprawl across more than 88,800 square miles of territory—a protected area more than 25 times the size of Yellowstone National Park in the United States.
- (derogatory) A state ofregulations whose constituents have anopaquescope ofapplication because of their questionable delimitation with regard to each other.
2011, Bryce Clayton Newell, “Rethinking Reasonable Expectations of Privacy in Online Social Networks”, inRichmond Journal of Law and Technology, volume17, number 4, page 5:Present United States privacy law – despite being made up of apatchwork federal and state constitutional, statutory, and common law – is predominantly based on the ideals of individual control, autonomy, and liberty from governmental intrusion, despite the fact that its inspiration was an idea grounded on the importance of protecting human dignity and an “inviolate personality.”
a work composed of many different colors and shapes
any kind of creation that utilizes many different aspects to create one, whole piece
patchwork (third-person singular simple presentpatchworks,present participlepatchworking,simple past and past participlepatchworked)
- (transitive) Tocreate a patchwork frompieces offabric.
- (transitive) Toassemble from avariety ofsources; tocobble together.
Borrowed fromEnglishpatchwork.
patchwork m (pluralpatchworks)
- patchwork
Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishpatchwork.
patchwork m (invariable)
- patchwork (all senses)
Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishpatchwork.
- IPA(key): /ˈpat͡ʃwoɾk/[ˈpa.t͡ʃwoɾk]
- IPA(key): /ˈpat͡ʃuɚk/[ˈpa.t͡ʃuɚk]
- IPA(key): /ˈbæt͡ʃuɚk/[ˈbæt͡ʃuɚk]
patchwork m (pluralpatchworks)
- patchwork
According toRoyal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
