patch

• ace
• adjust
• aid
• ameliorate
• atom
• better
• birthmark
• bit
• bite
• blob
• blot
• blotch
• chip
• clipping
• condition
• correct
• crumb
• cure
• dab
• dapple
• dash
• doctor
• dot
• dribble
• driblet
• drop
• enhance
• enrich
• eyespot
• fix
• fix up
• flake
• fleck
• flyspeck
• fraction
• fragment
• freckle
• freshen
• furbish
• grain
• granule
• haet
• halfpenny
• heal
• help
• improve
• iota
• jot
• kenning
• lick
• maintain
• mark
• meliorate
• mend
• minim
• mite
• modicum
• modify
• mole
• molecule
• morsel
• mote
• mottle
• mouthful
• nibble
• nubbin
• nugget
• nutshell
• ounce
• overhaul
• paring
• part
• particle
• pinch
• pip
• point
• polka dot
• portion
• prepare
• ready
• rebuild
• recondition
• reconstruct
• rectify
• redress
• reform
• refresh
• refreshen
• refurbish
• regenerate
• rejuvenate
• renew
• renovate
• repair
• restore
• revamp
• revitalize
• revive
• right
• scrap
• scruple
• section
• service
• shard
• shaving
• shiver
• shred
• sliver
• smatter
• smear
• smidge
• smidgen
• smidgeon
• smidgin
• smithereens
• smudge
• smutch
• snip
• snippet
• spatter
• speck
• speckle
• splash
• splinter
• splotch
• spot
• stain
• strain
• streak
• suspicion
• taste
• tidbit
• titbit
• tittle
• touch
• trace
• whisper
• whit

• abundance
• barrel
• blemish
• break
• bucket
• bushel
• chunk
• cripple
• damage
• deal
• deface
• disable
• disfigure
• flaw
• gob
• harm
• heaps
• hunk
• hurt
• impair
• injure
• loads
• lump
• maim
• mangle
• mar
• mass
• mountain
• mutilate
• peck
• pile
• pot
• profusion
• quantity
• raft
• ruin
• scads
• slab
• spoil
• stack
• vandalize
• volume
• wad
• wealth
• wreck

• noun
  1. 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.
  2. A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
  3. 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.
  4. A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location, time, size).
  5. (specifically) A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground.
  6. A local region of professional responsibility.
  7. 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.
  8. A piece of material used to cover a wound.
  9. 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.
  10. A cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch.
  11. A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
  12. 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.
  13. A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.
  14. A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
  15. (often patch cable, patch cord etc.; see also patch panel) A cable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment.
  16. A sound setting for a musical synthesizer (originally selected by means of a patch cable).
  17. An overlay used to obtain a stronger impression.
  18. A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.
• verb
  1. To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
  2. To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on.
  3. To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt.
  4. To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt.
  5. To employ a temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system.
  6. (generally with the particle "up") To repair or arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner.
  7. To make the changes a patch describes; to apply a patch to the files in question. Hence:.
  8. To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable.

• He sewed a patch over the hole in his jeans.
• The gardener watered the vegetable patch every morning.
• They installed a software patch to fix the security flaw.
• A foggy patch made driving difficult on the highway.
• She wore a colorful eye patch after her surgery.

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