patch

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• COUNT in NET: 6 in 4 verses (in NT : 6 in 4 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

patch, n. [OE. pacche; of uncertain origin, perh. for placche; cf. Prov. E. platch patch, LG. plakk, plakke.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "Patches set upon a little breach."  [1913 Webster]
•  A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.  [1913 Webster]
•  A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty.  [1913 Webster]

  "Your black patches you wear variously."  [1913 Webster]
•  A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.  [1913 Webster]
•  Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn.  [1913 Webster]

  "Employed about this patch of ground."  [1913 Webster]
•  A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.  [1913 Webster]
•  A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

Patch ice, ice in overlapping pieces in the sea. -- Soft patch, a patch for covering a crack in a metallic vessel, as a steam boiler, consisting of soft material, as putty, covered and held in place by a plate bolted or riveted fast.

patch, v. t. 

•  To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.  [1913 Webster]
•  To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.  [1913 Webster]
•  To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.  [1913 Webster]

  "Ladies who patched both sides of their faces."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

patch, n. & v.
--n.
1 a piece of material or metal etc. used to mend a hole or as reinforcement.
2 a pad worn to protect an injured eye.
3 a dressing etc. put over a wound.
4 a large or irregular distinguishable area on a surface.
5 colloq. a period of time in terms of its characteristic quality (went through a bad patch).
6 a piece of ground.
7 colloq. an area assigned to or patrolled by an authorized person, esp. a police officer.
8 a number of plants growing in one place (brier patch).
9 a scrap or remnant.
10 a temporary electrical connection.
11 hist. a small disc etc. of black silk attached to the face, worn esp. by women in the 17th-18th c. for adornment.
12 Mil. a piece of cloth on a uniform as the badge of a unit.
--v.tr.
1 (often foll. by up) repair with a patch or patches; put a patch or patches on.
2 (of material) serve as a patch to.
3 (often foll. by up) put together, esp. hastily or in a makeshift way.
4 (foll. by up) settle (a quarrel etc.) esp. hastily or temporarily.

Idiom

not a patch on colloq. greatly inferior to. patch cord an insulated lead with a plug at each end, for use with a patchboard. patch panel = PATCHBOARD. patch pocket one made of a piece of cloth sewn on a garment. patch test a test for allergy by applying to the skin patches containing allergenic substances.

Derivative

patcher n.

Etymology

ME pacche, patche, perh. var. of peche f. OF pieche dial. var. of piece PIECE

THESAURUS

patch

Hershey bar, X ray, actinic ray, actinism, area, atomic beam, atomic ray, aviation badge, badge, bailiwick, bar, bat out, beam, beam of light, birthmark, blaze, blemish, block, bloodstain, blot, blotch, blur, botch, brand, bring to terms, bungle, bury the hatchet, caste mark, check, checkmark, chevron, chicken, chip, cicatrix, clearing, clos, close, cobble, come to terms, commission, condition, corn field, cover, croft, crumb, cultivated land, cut, dab, dapple, dappledness, dappleness, darn, dash off, daub, discoloration, do anyhow, do by halves, do carelessly, do offhand, do up, doctor, dot, dottedness, eagle, earmark, enclave, engraving, epaulet, episode, experience, eyesore, fake up, field, fix, fix up, fleck, flick, flyspeck, forty, freckle, freckliness, fudge up, gamma ray, gash, gleam, graving, ground, hack, hash mark, hayfield, heal, improvise, infrared ray, insignia of branch, interval, invisible radiation, jot, jury-rig, knock off, knock out, knock together, knock up, kraal, lash up, leam, lentigo, lot, macula, maculation, macule, mark, marking, mend, mole, morceau, morsel, mottle, mottledness, nevus, nick, nip, notch, oak leaf, organization insignia, overhaul, overseas bar, pad, paddy, pale, parachute badge, parcel, parcel of land, patch together, patch up, pencil, period, photon, piece, piece of land, pip, plat, plot, plot of ground, point, pointillage, pointillism, polka dot, pound out, prick, puncture, put in commission, put in order, put in repair, put in shape, quad, quadrangle, radiation, radiorays, ray, ray of light, ready, real estate, rebuild, recap, reconcile, recondition, reconstruct, reinforce, reinforcement, repair, resolve, responsibility, retread, revamp, ribbon, ribbon of light, rice paddy, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, scar, scarification, score, scotch, scrap, scratch, scratching, section, segment, service, service stripe, set right, set straight, set to rights, settle, sew up, shiver, shoulder patch, shoulder sleeve insignia, shred, slap up, sliver, smear, smirch, smithereen, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, snick, snip, snippet, solar rays, spatter, speck, speckle, speckliness, spell, splash, splatter, splinter, splotch, spot, spottedness, spottiness, spread eagle, square, stage, stain, star, stigma, stipple, stippledness, stippling, stitch, straighten out, strawberry mark, streak, stream, stream of light, streamer, stripe, submarine badge, tag, taint, tarnish, tatter, tattoo, tattoo mark, territory, throw off, throw together, tick, time, tinker, tinker up, tittle, toss off, toss out, toss together, tract, trifle with, ultraviolet ray, vamp, violet ray, watermark, wheat field, whomp up

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patch

Smallness

N smallness, littleness, tenuity, paucity, fewness, meanness, insignificance (unimportance), mediocrity, moderation, small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum, vanishing point, material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace, minutiae, details, look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow, spark, scintilla, gleam, touch, cast, grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture, inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive, snip, snippet, snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag, chip, chipping, shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair, nutshell, thimbleful, spoonful, handful, capful, mouthful, fragment, fraction, drop in the ocean, animalcule, trifle, mere nothing, next to nothing, hardly anything, just enough to swear by, the shadow of a shade, finiteness, finite quantity, small, little, diminutive, minute, fine, inconsiderable, paltry, faint, slender, light, slight, scanty, scant, limited, meager, sparing, few, low, so-so, middling, tolerable, no great shakes, below par, under par, below the mark, at a low ebb, halfway, moderate, modest, tender, subtle, inappreciable, evanescent, infinitesimal, homeopathic, very small, atomic, corpuscular, microscopic, molecular, subatomic, mere, simple, sheer, stark, bare, near run, dull, petty, shallow, stolid, ungifted, unintelligent, to a small extent, on a small scale, a little bit, a wee bit, slightly, imperceptibly, miserably, wretchedly, insufficiently, imperfectly, faintly, passably, pretty well, well enough, partially, in part, in a certain degree, to a certain degree, to a certain extent, comparatively, some, rather in some degree, in some measure, something, somewhat, simply, only, purely, merely, at least, at the least, at most, at the most, ever so little, as little as may be, tant soit peu, in ever so small a degree, thus far, pro tanto, within bounds, in a manner, after a fashion, so to speak, almost, nearly, well-nigh, short of, not quite, all but, near upon, close upon, peu s'en faut, near the mark, within an ace of, within an inch of, on the brink of, scarcely, hardly, barely, only just, no more than, about, thereabouts, somewhere about, nearly, say, be the same, be little more or less, no ways, no way, no wise, not at all, not in the least, not a bit, not a bit of it, not a whit, not a jot, not a shadow, in no wise, in no respect, by no means, by no manner of means, on no account, at no hand, dare pondus idonea fumo, magno conatu magnas nugas, small sands the mountain, moments make the year.

Region

N region, sphere, ground, soil, area, field, realm, hemisphere, quarter, district, beat, orb, circuit, circle, reservation, pale, compartment, department, clearing, (property) &c 780 (Government), 1 arena, precincts, enceinte, walk, march, patch, plot, parcel, inclosure, close, field, court, enclave, reserve, preserve, street, clime, climate, zone, meridian, latitude, biosphere, lithosphere, territorial, local, parochial, provincial, regional.

Blemish

N blemish, disfigurement, deformity, adactylism, flaw, defect, injury, spots on the sun, eyesore, stain, blot, spot, spottiness, speck, speckle, blur, tarnish, smudge, dirt, freckle, mole, macula, patch, blotch, birthmark, blobber lip, blubber lip, blain, maculation, scar, wem, pustule, whelk, excrescence, pimple, pitted, freckled, discolored, imperfect, blobber-lipped, bloodshot, injured.