patches

• aces
• adjusts
• aids
• ameliorates
• atoms
• betters
• birthmarks
• bites
• bits
• blobs
• blotches
• blots
• chips
• clippings
• conditions
• corrects
• crumbs
• cures
• dabs
• dapples
• dashes
• doctors
• dots
• dribbles
• driblets
• drops
• enhances
• enriches
• eyespots
• fixes
• fixes up
• flakes
• flecks
• flyspecks
• fractions
• fragments
• freckles
• freshens
• furbishes
• grains
• granules
• haets
• halfpence
• halfpennies
• heals
• helps
• improves
• iotas
• jots
• kennings
• licks
• maintains
• marks
• meliorates
• mends
• minims
• mites
• modicums
• modifies
• molecules
• moles
• morsels
• motes
• mottles
• mouthfuls
• nibbles
• nubbins
• nuggets
• nutshells
• ounces
• overhauls
• parings
• particles
• parts
• pinches
• pips
• points
• polka dots
• portions
• prepares
• readies
• rebuilds
• reconditions
• reconstructs
• rectifies
• redresses
• reforms
• refreshens
• refreshes
• refurbishes
• regenerates
• rejuvenates
• renews
• renovates
• repairs
• restores
• revamps
• revitalizes
• revives
• rights
• scraps
• scruples
• sections
• services
• shards
• shavings
• shivers
• shreds
• slivers
• smatters
• smears
• smidgens
• smidgeons
• smidges
• smidgins
• smithereens
• smudges
• smutches
• snippets
• snips
• spatters
• speckles
• specks
• splashes
• splinters
• splotches
• spots
• stains
• strains
• streaks
• suspicions
• tastes
• tidbits
• titbits
• tittles
• touches
• traces
• whispers
• whits

• abundances
• barrels
• blemishes
• breaks
• buckets
• bushels
• chunks
• cripples
• damages
• deals
• defaces
• disables
• disfigures
• flaws
• gobs
• harms
• heaps
• hunks
• hurts
• impairs
• injures
• loads
• lumps
• maims
• mangles
• mars
• masses
• mountains
• mutilates
• pecks
• piles
• pots
• profusions
• quantities
• rafts
• ruins
• scads
• slabs
• spoils
• stacks
• vandalizes
• volumes
• wads
• wealths
• wrecks

• 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 colorful patches onto his denim jacket.
• The garden has several small patches of wildflowers.
• She wears nicotine patches to help her quit smoking.
• The road crew fixed the potholes with fresh asphalt patches.
• His shirt had worn-out patches on the elbows.

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