Word Finder - patch

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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.

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

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A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.

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

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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.

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"This patch should hold until you reach the city," the mechanic said as he patted the car's hood.

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A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location, time, size)

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Doesn't that patch of clouds looks like a bunny?

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(specifically) A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground.

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Scattered patches of trees or growing corn.

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A local region of professional responsibility.

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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.

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A piece of material used to cover a wound.

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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.

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

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A cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch.

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

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A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.

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A patch file, a file that describes changes to be made to a computer file or files, usually changes made to a computer program that fix a programming bug.

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A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.

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A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.

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(often patch cable, patch cord etc.; see also patch panel) A cable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment.

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A sound setting for a musical synthesizer (originally selected by means of a patch cable).

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An overlay used to obtain a stronger impression.

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To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like

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My coat needs patching.

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To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on.

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To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt.

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To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt.

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To employ a temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system.

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(generally with the particle "up") To repair or arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner

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The truce between the two countries has been patched up.

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To make the changes a patch describes; to apply a patch to the files in question. Hence:

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To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable.

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I'll need to patch the preamp output to the mixer.

Giddon swung his arm out and pointed to a patch of flowers.

The square patch of light woke her.

She motioned to the small patch of grass.

We did a patch job—it wasn't all that serious.

Rob was silent, a large white patch across his nose.

So what was the patch kit doing in the trunk of his company car?

I sometimes try my acquaintances by such tests as this--Who could wear a patch, or two extra seams only, over the knee?

The chief occupation of the people is agriculture, and every available patch of land has been brought under the plough.

It was not all black but had a white patch around one eye.

A patch of blue cement suggested a swimming pool might also inhabit the estate.

It's a Dramamine patch.

The fur of the dormouse is tawny above and paler beneath, with a white patch on the throat.

He spots a patch of scales on her shoulder and she explains everything to him, including flashbacks to the prolog.

Pregnant women are advised to not use the Nicoderm patch.

A popular brand of patch is Nicoderm CQ.

You don't have to go it alone; there are some great medical treatments that can help like the Nicoderm CQ Patch.

This machine washable style features a button collar, a patch pocket on the chest of the shirt and a round sleeve finish.

His deep chestnut head and throat are diversified on either side by a line of buff, which, springing from the gape, runs upward to the eye, in front of which it forms a fork, one prong passing backward above and the other below, enclosing a dark glossy-green patch, and both losing themselves in the elongated feathers of the hind-head and nape.

Fortunately the pope interfered for a moment to lighten the friction; being threatened with a new invasion by the emperor Frederick, he suspended the sentences and sent legates to patch up a peace.

The minor accuracies, the limitation of range, the treading and re-treading of the same small patch of ground, the concentration of interest in success before a board of examiners, were all uncongenial to a nature of exuberant intellectual curiosity and of strenuous and self-reliant originality.

If it be positive, a widely extending patch is seen on the plate, consisting of a dense nucleus, from which branches radiate in all directions; if negative the patch is much smaller and has a sharp circular boundary entirely devoid of branches.

In Germany, during the 15th century, a brilliant attempt was made to patch up the flaws in Ptolemaic doctrine.

It is nearly allied to the grivet, but distinguished (as indicated by its name) by the presence of a rusty patch at the root of the tail, and by the black (instead of grey) chin, hands and feet.

The hind end of embryos B, C, D is uppermost in the figures, the primitive streak is the white patch behind the blastopore.

Examples from the south of Spain differ slightly from those inhabiting the rest of Europe, and in some points more resemble the P. mauritanica of north-western Africa; but that species has a patch of bare skin of a fine blue colour behind the eye, and much shorter wings.

A cathode discharge is projected through two small holes in plates in the narrow part of the tube on a fluorescent screen at the end of the enlarged end, and the cathode ray or pencil depicts on it a small bright greenish patch of light.

If this patch is also given a displacement in the direction of right angles by examining it in a steadily vibrating mirror, we see a wavy or oscillatory line of light which is an optical representation of the wave form of a current in the coils embracing the Braun tube.

I picked it up in a garage sale, for two dollars—with a bike tire patch kit tossed in.

We did a patch job—it wasn't all that serious.

He barreled toward the forest, and she turned in time to see the black jaguar with the white eye patch seated at the edge of the park, tail flicking and intense green eyes on the approaching child.

If someone suffers a corneal abrasion through an accident, does padding the eye with an eye patch help it heal?

Jasminum Absolute produced positive patch test reactions in some patients who were contact sensitive to cinnamic aldehyde.

Occlusion of the normal eye with an adhesive patch is the mainstay of treatment in all forms of unilateral amblyopia.

Another system uses a sacrificial anode tied to the rebar on either side of the patch repair.

They discovered a large aneurysm of the proximal descending aorta at the site of the Dacron Patch Graft repair done 14 years earlier.

This commonly occurs over a patch of fatty material called atheroma.

Colin would also like to hear from volunteers interested in helping survey stag beetle activity in their own patch.

P Patch test A skin test that can show which substances are causing contact dermatitis or eczema.

The full details are provided with the patch and are easy to follow if a little convoluted.

The vines in the patch in front of the row were glowing crimson, purple and gold.

Dan Patch was born with legs so crooked that he had to be assisted by a trainer to stand or nurse.

Dr. Hanley had closed Fahad's ventricular septal defect with a patch of the pericardium.

We are also studying the ion channels that regulate calcium movements across the cell membrane using patch clamp electrophysiology.

You should be able to make out a misty patch which appears slightly elongate.

In an elective operation, for example carotid endarterectomy, a prosthetic patch will serve just as well.

A patch test with a leaf provoked diffuse erythema and edema.

The garden is lawned, except for a very small patch approximately 1 meter circular which we have put a few evergreens into.

Positive patch test reactions to the latex and to an aqueous extract of the leaves and latex were observed.

Recruiting posted by fez / / 18 Apr 2006 We are currently recruiting one or two members due to a recent patch of inactivity.

Siemens (1929) reported dermatitis from the foliage of silver fir; patch tests were not recorded.