Definition of Patch

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Definition of Patch

Patch

A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a hole.

A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.

A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty.

A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.

Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn.

A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.

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

To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.

To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.

To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.

To make of pieces or patches; to repair as with patches; to arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner; -- generally with up; as, to patch up a truce.

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Patch Quotations

I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I'm gonna rip it off.
Ellen DeGeneres

Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
P. G. Wodehouse

Sonny and another Hells Angel who was at the meeting thought they were beyond a little patch so they headed down to a local tattoo shop in Oakland and were the first to get the famous One Percent tattoos.
Chuck Zito

I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.
Christy Turlington

The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go.
Sharon Stone

Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch management.
Kevin Mitnick

We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.
Willie Stargell

Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.
Andy Goldsworthy

Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
Andy Goldsworthy

Well, we're trying to patch and fix and put a cast on a broken system here. You can call it what you want, but we'll continue to purchase power in a private market.
Gray Davis

Patch Translations

patch in Danish is reparere
patch in Dutch is lap, lapwerk, ingezet stuk
patch in German is reparieren
patch in Latin is pannus, resarcio
patch in Portuguese is remendo
patch in Spanish is parche, remendar

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