Word Finder - patches

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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.

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A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.

There are patches of dense reeds, reaching to ft.

Red patches appeared on Princess Mary's face and she was silent as if she felt guilty.

Vine leaf attacked by mildew, Uncinula necator (Erysiphe Tuckeri), which forms white patches on the upper face, reduced.

Brown or even blood-red stripes have been observed in the North Atlantic when swarms of the copepod Calanus finmarchicus were present; the brown alga Trichodesmium erythraeum, as its name suggests, can change the blue of the tropical seas to red; swarms of diatoms may produce olive-green patches in the ocean, while some other forms of minute life have at times been observed to give the colour of milk to large stretches of the ocean surface.

Portion of twig with discoloured patches, caused by the fungus.

In young children, the scaly patches in plaque psoriasis do not appear as thick or as scaly as those of adults.

Howie too, dressed for the occasion, even donning a tweed jacket complete with elbow patches.

The vegetation is almost tropically luxuriant - palms, wild pineapples, and ferns growing profusely, and the valleys being filled with wild beans and patches of taro.

Leeches are usually olive green to brown in colour, darker patches and spots being scattered over a paler ground.

Mixed with the bunch grass are occasional patches of sage brush.

Thereafter, except for deltaic patches at Marsa Susa and Derna, the shore is all precipitous.

Except in northern Africa, the Tertiary formations only occur in a few isolated patches on the east and west coasts.

The central plain is highly cultivated, forming an almost continuous stretch of gardens and vineyards, varied here and there with a few patches of cornfields and pasture lands.

The only thing more difficult than watching your cat grow bald patches is figuring out the cause for the hair loss.

It may also appear as dry patches of reddened skin on the child's knuckles, knees, elbows, or ankles that are often misdiagnosed as eczema.

It starts as itchy, inflamed red patches or streaks, and as the oil penetrates into the skin, blisters and small papules form.

The ocean air was fragrant and heavy, and moonlight pierced the forest canopy in patches.

Most curious of all is the courtship of the males of some species of Salticidae, or jumping spiders, which are decorated with plumes or coloured stripes or iridescent patches.

Small red-brown spots appear on the bolls, gradually enlarge, and develop into irregular black and grey patches.

The fruit is a capsule containing three seeds rather larger than cobnuts, having a brown smooth surface figured with black patches.

Within the area thus defined tsetse-flies are not found continuously, however, but occur only in small tracts called" belts " or " patches," which, since cover and shade are necessities of life to these insects, are always situated in forest, bush or banana plantations, or among other shady vegetation.

The plate thus obtained shows accidental clouding, or massing of dark tones, and these patches are taken as the basis of a pictorial design to which final character is given by inlaying with gold and silver, and by kata-kiri sculpture.

So thoroughly had he now mastered the management of glazes that he could combine yellow, green, white and claret color in regular patches to imitate tortoise-shell.

Miserably poor, they subsist for the most part by selling firewood or other products of their jungle; but a few of them have patches of cultivated land, and many earn wages as day labourers to the Hindus.

To-day such a thing can hardly be done within the United States, for nowhere does the primitive wilderness exist save here and there in shreds and patches.

Aboriginal races generally follow the migratory system of tillage, clearing the jungle on selected patches, and after taking crops for two or three years abandoning them for new ground.

These shells do not retain their individuality at depths greater than 1400 or 1500 fathoms, and in fact pteropod ooze is only found in small patches on the ridges near the Azores, Antilles, Canaries, Sokotra, Nicobar, Fiji and the Paumotu islands, and on the central rise of the South Atlantic between Ascension and Tristan d'Acunha.

In the canyons of the Edwards Plateau grow the pecan, live oak, sycamore, elm, walnut and cypress; on the hilly dissected borders of the same plateau are cedars, dwarf and scrubby oak, and higher up are occasional patches of stunted oak, called "shinneries."

Outside of these general areas, forest products are of relatively little value, the exceptions being the dense growths, in certain restricted areas, of live-oak, which is in demand for ship timbers; and scattering patches of hickory, which is requisite for certain manufactures.

Thorny acacias, euphorbias and aloes are still, however, found in patches on the plains.

Most of the bluffs along the principal river valleys, especially those in the south-east, are entirely bare of vegetation, but on the bottom lands along the rivers and streams considerable patches of cottonwood and willows are common.

The crystallines are confined to the portion of the belt east of the Great Valley where Paleozoic rocks are always highly metamorphosed and occur for the most part in limited patches, excepting in New England and Canada, where they assume greater areal importance, and are besides very generally intruded by granites.

Coccus pinicorticis causes the growth of patches of white flocculent and downy matter on the smooth bark of young trees of the white pine in America.

The high price received by the hill growers of the Burley induced farmers in the Blue Grass to plant Burley tobacco there, where the crop proved a great success, more than twice as much (sometimes 2000 lb) being grown to the acre in the Blue Grass as in the hills and twice as large patches being easily managed.

Bands of masked men rode about the country both in the Black Patch and in the Burley, burning tobacco houses of the independent planters, scraping their newly-planted tobacco patches, demanding that planters join their organization or leave the country, and whipping or shooting the recalcitrants.

The Triassic and Jurassic systems are met with only in scattered patches.

Maize or Indian corn was cultivated on patches of ground where, as in the Hindu jam, the trees and bushes were burnt and the seed planted in the soil manured by the ashes.

The notion that the ruined cities now buried in the Central-American forests were of great antiquity and the work of extinct nations has no solid evidence; some of them may have been already abandoned before the conquest, but others were inhabited by the ancestors of the Indians who now build their mean huts and till their patches of maize round the relics of the grander life of their ancestors.

The climatic effects of relief are seen directly in the ascent of the higher mountain ranges to altitudes where low temperatures prevail, thus preserving snow patches through the summer on the high summits (over 12,000 ft.) in the south, and maintaining snowfields and moderate-sized glaciers on the ranges in the north.

The microscope shows that the neighbouring filaments are held together by patches of cilia, called " ciliated junctions," which interlock with one another just as two brushes may be made to do.

Many of the crystals are parti-coloured, the blue being distributed in patches in a colourless or yellow stone; but by skilful cutting, the deep-coloured portion may be caused to impart colour to the entire gem.

The hair covering the body is long, coarse, and of a peculiarly brittle and pith-like character, breaking easily; it is generally of a greyish-brown colour, sometimes inclined to yellowish-red, and often variegated with lighter patches.

The surrounding country is bare and stony, with carefully cultivated patches of rich red soil among the crevices of the rock.

Various degrees in the reduction of the pigment patches up to that of complete elimination may be traced.

Occasionally the piebald patches tend to be symmetrically arranged, and sometimes the eyeballs are pigmentless (pink) and sometimes pigmented (black).

The hair and the eyes may be regarded as skin patches, in which sometimes the one and sometimes the other is pigmentless.

More remarkable is the case of certain cattle, whose skin is piebald, marked by a general ground colour over which are scattered patches of unpigmented coat.

And with certain cutaneous diseases accompanied by constitutional disturbances which afflict cattle, the affection in the skin appears on the patches bearing white hairs, the other parts remaining apparently healthy.

The chicks also are black, with occasionally white patches on the head.

When the alga is predominant it forms felted patches on the bark of trees, the Laudatea form.