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patch I. \ˈpach\ noun (-es) Etymology: Middle English pacche, perhaps from Middle French pece, piece, pieche piece — more at piece 1. : a piece used to mend or cover a hole, rent, or breach or to reinforce or protect a weak spot < wore a dirty … sweater with leather elbow patches — W.B.Marsh > especially : a piece of cloth used to repair or reinforce fabric that is torn or worn 2. : a tiny decorative piece of black silk or court plaster worn on the face or neck especially by women to hide a blemish or to heighten beauty by contrast 3. a. : a piece of adhesive plaster or other cover applied to a wound b. : a shield (as of cloth) worn over an injured eye 4. a. : a small piece : bit, scrap < on all sides are small patches of level ground, but nowhere is there a plain — Kenneth Roberts > < slept in patches, cold and uncomfortable — A.P.Herbert > < the kind of book which in patches has real interest — H.J.Laski > b. : a spot of color different from that around it < a patch of white is noticeable on his dog's head > c. : a small piece of ground distinct from that about it (as in appearance or in the vegetation it bears) < cabbage patch > < patches of bare earth > d. : a constricted area of land occupied by mean or impoverished dwellings or farms 5. : an ornament, badge, or tab of cloth sewed on a garment; especially : an emblem worn at the shoulder of a military uniform to show the unit to which a serviceman belongs < wears the Third Army patch — Westinghouse Magazine > 6. a. : an irregular small mass of floating cakes of ice b. : a herd of seals 7. a. : a piece of greased or moistened cloth formerly used as wadding for a rifle ball b. : a small piece of cotton cloth used for cleaning the bore of small arms c. : the hard metal covering over the lead core of jacketed bullets 8. : a circumscribed region (as on the skin or in a section from an organ) differing especially in color or composition from the tissue normal for that part 9. a. : overlay 2d b. : a replacement of part of a printing plate (as an electrotype) < a 3-line patch > 10. : someone or something equal or comparable — usually used in negative constructions < what the advocates of economic nationalism had accomplished was not a patch on what they planned — Time > < those headlines don't make a patch against the ones on the front pages — Newsweek > 11. : a temporary connection in a communication system (as a telephone or broadcasting hookup) 12. chiefly Britain : period, spell < it is not as though we now had large reserves to tide us over a difficult patch — Donald MacDougall > < poetry is going through a bad patch — Cyril Connolly > 13. : a circus lawyer : fixer < if the patch says you can rip and tear, you can go the limit on anything — D.W.Maurer > II. transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-es) 1. : to mend, cover, or fill up a hole, rent, breach, or weak spot in : apply a patch to < caulked her deck seams, slushed her rigging, and patched her sails — Kenneth Roberts > < was trying to get all the fences near the house patched — Ellen Glasgow > 2. : to provide with a patch or patches < neat clearings patching the sides of the mountains — Slim Aarons > < went patched and darned and shamefaced through the village streets > 3. a. : to make of patches, scraps, or fragments < they possessed only suspicions … but out of these they succeeded in patching together a mosaic — Louis Bromfield > b. : to mend, repair, or put together especially in hasty, insecure, or shabby fashion — usually used with up < was busy patching up that political disaster — J.P.O'Donnell > < relations between the two men had to be patched up repeatedly — Ishbel Ross > < sometimes offer a gift, with a view to patching up a quarrel — W.F.Hambly > < has been since diverted to patch up the 118-year-old penal slum — Frank O'Leary > 4. : to apply as a patch < patched new cloth to the old coat until it seemed mere patchwork > 5. : to cover (a bullet) with a patch Synonyms: see mend III. noun (-es) Etymology: perhaps by folk etymology from Italian dialect (southern Italy) paccio fool 1. : a domestic fool or jester 2. : clown, dolt, ninny 3. chiefly dialect : crosspatch IV. noun 1. : a minor usually temporary correction or modification in a computer program 2. Britain : beat 7a 3. : a usually disc-shaped piece of material that is worn on the skin and contains a substance (as a drug) that is absorbed at a constant rate through the skin into the bloodstream < a nitroglycerin patch > V. transitive verb 1. : to make a patch in (a computer program) 2. : to connect (as circuits) by a patch cord |