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Definition of patchy in English: patchyadjectivepatchiest, patchier ˈpatʃiˈpætʃi 1Existing or happening in small, isolated areas. Example sentencesExamples - On examining the heart there was some patchy areas of scar tissue which may in part be related to old age and partly due to some mild narrowing of the coronary arteries that supply the heart.
- Graziers tell stories of good years when the grass is up to their waists, but at the moment, only patchy areas have enough rain to put a nice bit of grass on the ground.
- His chest X-ray findings and pulmonary function tests demonstrated patchy areas of fibrosis and evidence for restrictive lung disease.
- Later, in mature somatic embryos, the CHIA4 - Pa signal became at first limited to small patchy areas localized at the surface of the embryo, and finally declined.
- Most common finding is bronchopneumonia with patchy air-space areas of increased opacity.
- The over sowing of old patchy lawn areas can also be tackled at this time.
- Temperatures are predicted to be near or just above average, with a plenty of dry, bright weather and the possibility of a colder snap and patchy fog.
- The treated limb will show patchy areas of pallor caused by arteriolar constriction.
- Gross examination of the liver can reveal patchy white areas scattered on the capsule or cut surface surrounded by hemorrhagic tissue.
- It may affect patchy areas or long segments of arteries.
- However if there is some warm air located near the ground, some air may rise and form areas of patchy or high cloud.
- Chest x-ray showed bilateral focal patchy areas of infiltrate at the bases of both lungs, which was interpreted to be consistent with pneumonitis.
- Mozambique's drought is patchy, with some areas enjoying good rainfall or able to use old Portuguese colonial-era irrigation schemes to boost production.
- This patient had a similarly colored bright blue colon and some less intensely stained patchy blue areas in the small intestine.
- In relation to the small patchy areas on Packhouse Field, I think you are thinking, are you not, mainly of the patterns in the Fraises de Bois crop?
- The surface of the lesions was mostly ulcerated with patchy areas lined by metaplastic squamous epithelium that showed pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia.
- Take a look at your lawn and write about the patchy areas of crabgrass and bald spots found.
- Witnesses and the police estimated that his BMW three-series car was travelling at up to 120 mph in patchy fog without fog lights.
- The remainder of the pancreas showed patchy areas of atrophy admixed with thick bands of fibrous tissue that separated the few remaining acini.
- Soon, that very large - and brightly yellow - moon will rise over the bay and the patchy layers of fog that have been clinging to the ridges south of the ridges of the hills of my neighborhood.
Synonyms uneven, bitty, varying, variable, variegated, dappled, mottled, speckled, multicoloured intermittent, fitful, occasional, fluctuating, sporadic, erratic, irregular, random - 1.1 Not of the same quality throughout; inconsistent.
your coursework was patchy my knowledge of Egyptology is patchy Example sentencesExamples - Evidence based on research within Ukraine is patchy and its quality varies between regions (oblasts).
- As the only team not to suffer at least one really poor result throughout the patchy series they must surely secure a place in the semi-finals.
- The authors are the first to admit that much of the information is patchy and of variable quality, reflecting the often parlous state of official data.
- Also, the stuff is never cheap and quality is patchy.
- His accomplishment is all the more remarkable in view of Allied strength, the poor weather, and the patchy quality of his own army.
- Networks to overcome isolation and fragmentation are patchy and uneven.
- Information on quality of life was patchy, with no common outcome measures.
- The wind was ruffling through her patchy fur and he realised she was as naked as he was, the exposed patches of hide glaringly obvious and peculiar-looking.
- The RNIB report shows that eye tests are not routinely carried out in all schools - and where they are, provision ranges from patchy to high quality.
- And organisation is patchy in rural areas where there are transport problems.
- We should be aware that the existing collections are patchy.
- It has suffered at the hands of the Japanese 4x4 pick-ups, though, due to its reputation for patchy quality.
- Some progress has been made, but overall this remains patchy and inconsistent.
- Six minutes and a fraction over 20 seconds later, and the British four were contemplating a row of latent promise but patchy quality.
- This was partly due to the patchy audio quality, but the cast's collective lack of acting ability and a stunted storyline didn't help either.
- Incredibly, the 9300 found strong GPRS signals in areas with only a patchy, or no electricity supply such as Tsunami-hit islands in the south of the country, or by the Burmese border.
- The novel's language is patchy in quality and it is hard to know whether this is the fault of the author or the translator.
- Research at present is patchy and inconsistent especially for rowing.
- However, the illustrations are a bit patchy, varying in quality and style.
- On the alternative side the evidence was patchy and inconsistent.
Synonyms fragmentary, deficient, inadequate, insufficient, lacking, rudimentary, limited, sketchy
Derivatives adverb ˈpatʃɪliˈpætʃɪli None the less the Act has impacted on police practices, albeit unevenly and patchily. Example sentencesExamples - Most writing that lays claim to this term, whatever other merits it may display, ventures beyond certain core zones of attention only selectively and patchily.
- The experts also said these drugs were expensive because they were produced in rich, developed countries and only patchily distributed to the developing world.
- But containment worked, however patchily, for 10 years more.
- Her nail varnish is applied patchily, on bitten fingernails and bitten toenails.
- Ten years into a national strategy to standardise police IT, a picture emerges of systems being implemented patchily and sometimes reluctantly by individual forces.
- They have heightened our sense of insecurity, our security measures, and, more patchily, our commitment to addressing the underlying causes of that insecurity.
- Because Bank Swallows are patchily distributed, the Breeding Bird Survey might not accurately reflect their true status, but the population of Bank Swallows in Washington is probably large and stable.
- Because migrating forest songbirds are generally nonterritorial and patchily distributed in fall, we believed that line transects would survey migrants more effectively than point-counts.
- And slowly, and patchily, it became easier to buy the ingredients and the pots and knives she described.
- But daycare is still expensive, inflexible and patchily provided, and the statistics indicate that working motherhood is less common than it might be assumed.
- A patchily brilliant double album that would have been a masterpiece shrunk down to just the one?
- Because fruiting is sporadic and the macaques preferred trees are patchily distributed, they spend more than half of their time on the ground, travelling between fruit trees, foraging for insects and looking for water as they go.
- The History of Britain (unfortunately, his best-known book in this country) was rambling, shallow and patchily informed.
- Ralph ducked, screwing his eyes shut and concentrating on invisibility, but he opened one eye to check on the situation, and as a result became patchily visible as an irregular pattern of scarlet in the green leaves.
- Without wishing to torment a good man having a bad week, Gold's reaction to a patchily upbeat survey had the numbed quality of a man reading someone else's script.
- As usual, a hundred and three photographs to document the proceedings - patchily distributed - and I've finally brought myself around to looking at them.
- I was quite taken with his enterprise and probably would have bought a copy, even if I did think that the patchily copied papers might have been better presented.
- In two-predator, one-prey systems with intraguild predation and patchily distributed prey, the intraguild prey may face a choice between prey patches with and without intraguild predators.
- By the end of this patchily engrossing and occasionally dense overview, Gould has managed to encapsulate the intrinsic worth of each domain.
noun ˈpatʃɪnəsˈpætʃinəs Although the epicuticle may be degraded during the life of the host, that is an intrinsic factor leading to epibiont patchiness, not a result of taphonomy. Example sentencesExamples - The shallower rise in the temporally pooled curve implies some degree of stability in the species pool, despite the patchiness of ostracode distributions, and may represent a seasonal succession of species.
- A diel study of the population in October indicated that the patchiness of population also changed dramatically between day and night.
- If decapod populations are not time-averaged and are rapidly buried communities, epibiont patchiness should be the rule in decapods more often than in other groups with more durable skeletons.
- Fossil density distributions are usually spatially and volumetrically patchy at several scales, and this patchiness reflects taphonomic and depositional as well as ecological patterns.
- To adequately preserve what is left of this biodiversity hotspot, it is imperative to deepen our knowledge about the history of the Atlantic Forest and investigate the consequences of habitat patchiness for local populations.
- However, the year and patch effects significantly affected the success of successful nests in this species, indicating the existence of some patchiness in that species.
- It claimed it needed it, but I question how much need was involved, given that on the occasions I managed to coax printing out there were no signs of fading or patchiness.
- That seems to be more likely to occur in a system with many levels of patchiness.
- The authors' emphasis is on looking for patchiness in patterns in relation to the size of the game being pursued and plotting the probability of ‘x’ number of hits.
- GC variation is much larger than purine-pyrimidine variation; therefore, GC patchiness represents most of the genome sequence patchiness.
- Thus, although both caterpillars and adult females move frequently and contribute to demographic mixing, this movement is not great enough to negate the impact of habitat patchiness on Itame populations.
- We conclude that significant patchiness in nutritional quality of foliage, resulting from variation in foliar concentrations of a single compound, exists at a scale relevant to the feeding decisions of individual animals.
- Given the patchiness of the current cabinet's performance, many are putting their hope in a new, more capable batch of ministers, at the latest after the August MPR session.
- The vividness of Villa makes way for the patchiness of Pittodrie.
- I examine how habitat patchiness influences the distribution, abundance, and spatial dynamics of the geometrid moth Itame andersoni in the Wrangell Mountains of Alaska.
- If increased density influences the occurrence of aggressive interactions, the degree of patchiness of a habitat will affect the frequency of behavioral interactions.
- In turn, this enables me to evaluate whether the individual level consequences of patchiness that I examine lead to observed density dependent population dynamics.
- Attempts to quantify the amount and distribution of Sargassum in the Atlantic have met with many difficulties, including changes with seasonality and regional patchiness.
- Previous studies have identified either total nitrogen or the ratio of nitrogen to phenols as important determinants of nutritional patchiness for arboreal marsupials in Eucalyptus forests of southeast Australia.
Rhymes Apache, catchy, scratchy, snatchy Definition of patchy in US English: patchyadjectiveˈpaCHēˈpætʃi 1Existing or happening in small, isolated areas. Example sentencesExamples - The remainder of the pancreas showed patchy areas of atrophy admixed with thick bands of fibrous tissue that separated the few remaining acini.
- However if there is some warm air located near the ground, some air may rise and form areas of patchy or high cloud.
- Later, in mature somatic embryos, the CHIA4 - Pa signal became at first limited to small patchy areas localized at the surface of the embryo, and finally declined.
- The surface of the lesions was mostly ulcerated with patchy areas lined by metaplastic squamous epithelium that showed pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia.
- The treated limb will show patchy areas of pallor caused by arteriolar constriction.
- In relation to the small patchy areas on Packhouse Field, I think you are thinking, are you not, mainly of the patterns in the Fraises de Bois crop?
- On examining the heart there was some patchy areas of scar tissue which may in part be related to old age and partly due to some mild narrowing of the coronary arteries that supply the heart.
- Take a look at your lawn and write about the patchy areas of crabgrass and bald spots found.
- Most common finding is bronchopneumonia with patchy air-space areas of increased opacity.
- Graziers tell stories of good years when the grass is up to their waists, but at the moment, only patchy areas have enough rain to put a nice bit of grass on the ground.
- Mozambique's drought is patchy, with some areas enjoying good rainfall or able to use old Portuguese colonial-era irrigation schemes to boost production.
- Witnesses and the police estimated that his BMW three-series car was travelling at up to 120 mph in patchy fog without fog lights.
- Temperatures are predicted to be near or just above average, with a plenty of dry, bright weather and the possibility of a colder snap and patchy fog.
- It may affect patchy areas or long segments of arteries.
- His chest X-ray findings and pulmonary function tests demonstrated patchy areas of fibrosis and evidence for restrictive lung disease.
- This patient had a similarly colored bright blue colon and some less intensely stained patchy blue areas in the small intestine.
- The over sowing of old patchy lawn areas can also be tackled at this time.
- Chest x-ray showed bilateral focal patchy areas of infiltrate at the bases of both lungs, which was interpreted to be consistent with pneumonitis.
- Soon, that very large - and brightly yellow - moon will rise over the bay and the patchy layers of fog that have been clinging to the ridges south of the ridges of the hills of my neighborhood.
- Gross examination of the liver can reveal patchy white areas scattered on the capsule or cut surface surrounded by hemorrhagic tissue.
Synonyms uneven, bitty, varying, variable, variegated, dappled, mottled, speckled, multicoloured - 1.1 Not of the same quality throughout; inconsistent.
your coursework was patchy my knowledge of Egyptology is patchy Example sentencesExamples - As the only team not to suffer at least one really poor result throughout the patchy series they must surely secure a place in the semi-finals.
- On the alternative side the evidence was patchy and inconsistent.
- This was partly due to the patchy audio quality, but the cast's collective lack of acting ability and a stunted storyline didn't help either.
- Networks to overcome isolation and fragmentation are patchy and uneven.
- It has suffered at the hands of the Japanese 4x4 pick-ups, though, due to its reputation for patchy quality.
- Some progress has been made, but overall this remains patchy and inconsistent.
- Evidence based on research within Ukraine is patchy and its quality varies between regions (oblasts).
- However, the illustrations are a bit patchy, varying in quality and style.
- The novel's language is patchy in quality and it is hard to know whether this is the fault of the author or the translator.
- The wind was ruffling through her patchy fur and he realised she was as naked as he was, the exposed patches of hide glaringly obvious and peculiar-looking.
- And organisation is patchy in rural areas where there are transport problems.
- We should be aware that the existing collections are patchy.
- Also, the stuff is never cheap and quality is patchy.
- The authors are the first to admit that much of the information is patchy and of variable quality, reflecting the often parlous state of official data.
- Incredibly, the 9300 found strong GPRS signals in areas with only a patchy, or no electricity supply such as Tsunami-hit islands in the south of the country, or by the Burmese border.
- His accomplishment is all the more remarkable in view of Allied strength, the poor weather, and the patchy quality of his own army.
- The RNIB report shows that eye tests are not routinely carried out in all schools - and where they are, provision ranges from patchy to high quality.
- Research at present is patchy and inconsistent especially for rowing.
- Six minutes and a fraction over 20 seconds later, and the British four were contemplating a row of latent promise but patchy quality.
- Information on quality of life was patchy, with no common outcome measures.
Synonyms fragmentary, deficient, inadequate, insufficient, lacking, rudimentary, limited, sketchy
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