patch
noun
[ patʃ ]
• a piece of cloth or other material used to mend or strengthen a torn or weak point.
• "the jacket was of well-worn tweed with leather patches on the elbows"
• a part of something marked out from the rest by a particular characteristic.
• "his hair was combed forward to hide a growing bald patch"
Similar:
blotch,
mark,
pop,
spot,
smudge,
dot,
speck,
speckle,
smear,
stain,
streak,
stripe,
blemish,
birthmark,
port wine stain,
strawberry mark,
splodge,
splotch,
naevus,
• a small piece of ground, especially one used for gardening.
• "they spent Sundays digging their vegetable patch"
Similar:
plot,
area,
piece,
strip,
row,
lot,
tract,
parcel,
bed,
border,
allotment,
• a particular period of time.
• "he may have been going through a bad patch"
Similar:
period,
time,
spell,
phase,
stretch,
interval,
stint,
run,
term,
span,
extent,
spot,
• a temporary electrical or telephone connection.
• a small piece of code inserted into a program to improve its functioning or to correct a fault.
• "a program patch that fixes a bug"
patch
verb
• mend or strengthen (fabric or clothing) with a patch.
• "her jeans were neatly patched"
• treat someone's injuries or repair the damage to something in an improvised way.
• "they did their best to patch up the gaping wounds"
Similar:
repair,
mend,
fix hastily,
do a makeshift repair on,
repair/fix temporarily,
cobble,
botch,
jury-rig,
• connect by a temporary electrical, radio, or telephonic connection.
• "patch me through to number nine"
• improve or correct (a routine or program) by inserting a patch.
• "had he patched our system to recognize a magic password?"
Origin:
late Middle English: perhaps from a variant of Old French pieche, dialect variant of piece ‘piece’.
