Word Finder - patching

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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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The act of one who patches.

Baker stated that it had required patching for ninety years, because the arch and the high side arches would not work together.

With a few basic supplies and a little practice, you'll be on your way to patching all of your sheetrock blemishes.

For many years the standard treatment for a corneal abrasion included patching.

Patching can decrease blinking, which was thought to speed the healing process.

But patching is as of 2004 no longer done routinely because it decreases the amount of oxygen that gets to the cornea.

Patching is never done for contact lens patients, whose eyes are at a greater risk of a Pseudomonas infection, nor when the cause of an abrasion is due to vegetative matter, such as a tree branch.

Patching is also not done for patients who are monocular (have one good eye), if the better eye has the abrasion, nor for patients for whom depth perception is important, as this is lost when only one eye is used.

Controlled studies have demonstrated that patching a corneal abrasion does not improve healing either in children or adults and that patching of an eye may make walking difficult.

Patching. An opaque, adhesive patch is worn over the stronger eye for weeks to months.

Patching stimulates vision in the weaker eye and aids the section of the brain that manages vision to develop more completely.

Studies in the early 2000s have shown that less time patching the eye may be as effective as more.

In the case of moderate amblyopia, two hours of daily patching for four months gave the same benefit as six hours of daily patching for the same period of time.

Even after the child's vision has been restored in the weak eye, part-time patching may be required over a period of years to maintain the improvement.

If the " set " of the cylinder is about correct, and the impression sheet has been taken with neither too many nor too few sheets on the cylinder, it will be a matter rather of overlaying, or " patching up," than of cutting away from this trial sheet.

These wiring closets were installed along side the existing token ring patching frames.

The majority of these materials are totally unsuitable for patching prior to surface dressing.

Hastily patching up a truce with Saladin, under which the Christians kept the coast-towns and received free access to the Holy Sepulchre, Richard started on his return (9th October 1192).

Repair any holes with putty or by patching.

Surgery may involve resection of the coarctation segment or opening and patching the aorta where the coarctation occurred.

Compliance with the patching regimen was also improved with the shorter daily patching time.

In the end the duchess succeeded in patching up these feuds and saving the dynasty, and in 1648 Charles Emmanuel II.

Being in a miserable minority in parliament (1S7 Unionists against 379 Liberals, 51 Labour members, and 83 Nationalists), some form of consolidation among the Unionists was immediately necessary, and negotiations took place between Mr Balfour and Mr Chamberlain which resulted in the patching up of an agreement (expressed in a correspondence dated February 14th), and its confirmation at a meeting of the party at Lansdowne House a few days later.