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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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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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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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A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location, time, size)
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(specifically) A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground.
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A local region of professional responsibility.
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(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.
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(medicine) A piece of material used to cover a wound.
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(medicine) 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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(medicine) A cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch.
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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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(computing) A piece of data intended to modify a computer file by replacing a part of it.
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(firearms) A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.
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(firearms) 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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(music) A sound setting for a musical synthesizer (originally selected by means of a patch cable).
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(printing, historical) An overlay used to obtain a stronger impression.
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A butterfly of the genus Chlosyne.