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Definition: Patch |
PatchNoun1. A small contrasting part of something; "a bald spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice": "a fleck of red". 2. A small area of ground covered by specific vegetation; "a bean plot"; "a cabbage patch"; "a briar patch". 3. A piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole. 4. A short set of commands to correct a bug in a computer program. 5. A connection intended to be used for a limited time. 6. Sewing that repairs a worn or torn place in a garment. 7. A protective cloth covering for an injured eye. Verb1. To join or unite the pieces of; "patch the skirt". 2. Provide with a patch; also used metaphorically: "The field was patched with snow". 3. Mend or supply with a patch; "patch a hole". 4. Repair by adding pieces; "She pieced the china cup". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "patch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Computing | Patch 1. n. A temporary addition to a piece of code, usually as a quick-and-dirty remedy to an existing bug or misfeature. A patch may or may not work, and may or may not eventually be incorporated permanently into the program. Distinguished from a diff or mod by the fact that a patch is generated by more primitive means than the rest of the program; the classical examples are instructions modified by using the front panel switches, and changes made directly to the binary executable of a program originally written in an HLL. Compare one-line fix. 2. vt. To insert a patch into a piece of code. 3. [in the Unix world] n. A diff (sense 2). 4. A set of modifications to binaries to be applied by a patching program. IBM operating systems often receive updates to the operating system in the form of absolute hexadecimal patches. If you have modified your OS, you have to disassemble these back to the source. The patches might later be corrected by other patches on top of them (patches were said to "grow scar tissue"). The result was often a convoluted patch space and headaches galore. 5. [Unix] the `patch(1)' program, written by Larry Wall, which automatically applies a patch (sense 3) to a set of source code. There is a classic story of a tiger team penetrating a secure military computer that illustrates the danger inherent in binary patches (or, indeed, any patches that you can't -- or don't -- inspect and examine before installing). They couldn't find any trap doors or any way to penetrate security of IBM's OS, so they made a site visit to an IBM office (remember, these were official military types who were purportedly on official business), swiped some IBM stationery, and created a fake patch. The patch was actually the trapdoor they needed. The patch was distributed at about the right time for an IBM patch, had official stationery and all accompanying documentation, and was dutifully installed. The installation manager very shortly thereafter learned something about proper procedures. Source: Jargon File. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you have patches upon your clothing, denotes that you will show no false pride in the discharge of obligations. To see others wearing patches, denotes want and misery are near. If a young woman discovers a patch on her new dress, it indicates that she will find trouble facing her when she imagines her happiest moments are approaching near. If she tries to hide the patches, she will endeavor to keep some ugly trait in her character from her lover. If she is patching, she will assume duties for which she has no liking. For a woman to do family patching, denotes close and loving bonds in the family, but a scarcity of means is portended. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Electrical Engineering | A temporary electrical wiring change, usually made with plugs and jacks. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | A piece of material used to cover or protect a wound, an injured part, etc.: a patch over the eye. (references) |
Industry | An insert with tapered sides. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Patch A fool; so called from the motley or patched dress worn by licensed fools. "What a pied ninny's this! thou scurvy patch!" Shakespeare: The Tempest, iii. 2. Cross-patch. An ill-tempered person. (See above. Not a patch upon. Not to be compared with; as, "His horse is not a patch upon mine," "My patch is better than his garment." Patch (To). To express certain political views. The allusion is to the custom, in Queen Anne's reign, of wearing on the face little black patches. If the patch was on the right cheek, it indicated that the wearer was a Whig; if on the left cheek, that she was a Tory; if on the forehead between the eyes, or on both cheeks, that she was of no political bias. (See Court Plaster .) "Whatever might be her husband's politics, she was at liberty to patch as she pleased."- Nineteenth Century, February, 1890, p. 58. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. A mine village, usually built and owned by a coal company. (references) |
Statistics | In the terminology of Mahalanobis, a compact cluster of units whose variate values all fall in a specified class interval or if quantitative in a specified category, is called a patch or a contour level. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
- A piece of fabric.
- a. The name of a UNIX utility (written by Larry Wall) that applies a script generated by the diff program to a set of files, allowing changes from one file to be automatically applied to another file.
b. A set of diffs suitable for input to the patch program. Patches are a common way of supplying small updates to pieces of software where the source code is available. See Patch (computing)- A 3d Bézier surface used in computer graphics. A primitive in some 3d software packages.
- The name of an IBM utility to edit binary files (typically on mainframe installations, eg MVS).
- An electrical cable (patch cord) which can be used to alter the functionality of a piece of electrical equipment (such as a musical synthesizer).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Patch."
Synonyms: PatchSynonyms: dapple (n), eyepatch (n), fleck (n), maculation (n), mend (n), plot (n), plot of ground (n), speckle (n), spot (n), temporary hookup (n), patch up (v), piece (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Blemish | Freckle, mole, macula, patch, blotch, birthmark; blobber lip, blubber lip; blain, maculation; scar, wem; pustule; whelk; excrescence, pimple; (protuberance). |
Compromise | Verb: compromise, commute, compound; take the mean; split the difference, meet one halfway, give and take; come to terms; (contract); submit to arbitration, abide by arbitration; patch up, bridge over, arrange; straighten out, adjust, differences, agree; make the best of, make a virtue of necessity; take the will for the deed. |
Region | Arena, precincts, enceinte, walk, march; patch, plot, parcel, inclosure, close, field, court; enclave, reserve, preserve; street; (abode). |
Restoration | Repair; put in repair, remanufacture, put in thorough repair, put in complete repair; retouch, refashion, botch, vamp, tinker, cobble; do up, patch up, touch up, plaster up, vamp up; darn, finedraw, heelpiece; stop a gap, stanch, staunch, caulk, calk, careen, splice, bind up wounds. |
Smallness | Small quan 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. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Patch |
| English words defined with "patch": Assument ♦ Bald coot, Beauty spot, Bodge, bush jacket ♦ dapple ♦ fleck ♦ goldcrest, golden-crested kinglet ♦ hot ♦ iguanid, iguanid lizard ♦ Konze ♦ macula, maculation, macule, mocking bird ♦ pallas's sandgrouse, patch up, patched, patching, plaque, popular, Powder-down patch, putty ♦ Regulus calendula, Regulus regulus, revamp, revealing, ruby-crowned kinglet, ruby-crowned wren, Rubythroat ♦ Saddled, shoulder patch, Soft patch, Soredium, speckle, spot, Syrrhaptes paradoxus ♦ telling, telltale, Trachystomata ♦ velvet duck ♦ Waybung, Whistling thrush, whitethroat ♦ Zonotrichia albicollis. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "patch": bright patch ♦ CROSS PATCH ♦ eye patch ♦ inspector and patch worker ♦ patch pumpkin, Patch Tests, PATCH WORKER. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "patch": Splenial. (references) |
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Screenplays | The only way that patch is going to help me is if I roll it and smoke it. (Speed 2: Cruise Control; writing credit: Graham Yost; Jan de Bont) You should really try a patch. (Traffic; writing credit: Stephen Gaghan) You don't need a patch on your arm to have honor (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) Mom, Dad, Patch pushed me into the fireplace (One Hundred and One Dalmatians; writing credit: Dodie Smith) It's this whole eye patch thing (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Lyrics | When you were cuddled wit cabbage patch (Forgot About Dre; performing artist: Dr. dre) There's a patch of snow on the ground (Hazy Shade Of Winter; performing artist: The Bangles) No patch on my eye. (Dark and Metric; performing artist: They Might Be Giants) Patch on my eye. (Dark and Metric; performing artist: They Might Be Giants) Patch me up inside (Best I Ever Had (Grey Sky Morning); performing artist: Vertical Horizon) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Parkin's Patch (1969) A Patch of Blue (1965) Black Patch (1957) The Great Dan Patch (1949) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Child playing in pumpkin patch. Credit: CDC. |  | A prominent patch of scales, known as the comb scales, occurs on each side of the eighth abdominal segment in most genera. Credit: CDC. |
 | The shaded variations in the water illustrate the patch reefs common at Mona Island. The breaking waves show the beginning of the main reef framework. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | A patch of new spawning habitat. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Patch reef with assorted corals. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | High islands of Truk with patch reef in foreground. Credit: Small World. |
 | Koror Harbor east entrance showing barrier reef to outside and patch reefs in lagoon. North side of entrance. Uplifted limestone islands. Credit: Small World. |  | Temporary patch on a C-17A Globemaster III. |
 | President and land owner William Chambers and NRCS employee Karen Strohmeyer with no till pumpkin patch. Credit: Gary Wilson. |  | No till pumpkin patch at Stahlbush Farms, Oregon. Credit: Gary Wilson. |
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| "Iris patch" by Larry Huggins Commentary: "Patch of iris flowers in various colors. Picture shot mid morning." | "Patch work quilt view" by Vi Xs Commentary: "View from Carlton bank in Cleveland UK." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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 | A short modern jazz excerpt with a synthesized patch solo using a typical ending. | | A baritone saxophone-sounding synthesizer patch. |
| A quick articulated note on a flute-like synthesizer patch. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Thomas Jefferson | The hole and the patch should be commensurate. |
William Shakespeare | Patch grief with proverbs. |
| We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name. | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This patch was in the form of a cross |
Something Wicked This Way Comes | Ray Bradbury | Sleep is a patch of death, but three in the morn, full wide-eyed staring, is living death |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He trimmed and beveled the edge of the blue patch. |
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Health | A wire connects the patch to a TV screen. (references) | |
A therapist places a patch over the muscles. (references) | ||
This is not a nicotine replacement, as are the gum and patch. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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James Monroe | 1817-1825 | The work at Fort Washington, on this river, will be completed early in the next spring, and that on the Pea Patch, in the Delaware, in the course of the next season. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Patch" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.48% of the time. "Patch" is used about 1,489 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 90.48% | 1,348 | 5,899 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 6.04% | 90 | 34,744 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.28% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.14% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (common) | 0.07% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,489 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "patch" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Patch | Last name | 2,000 | 6,066 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "patch": bald patch ♦ blow patch ♦ brier patch ♦ bright patch ♦ burnt patch ♦ Deponit Patch ♦ eye patch ♦ fog patch ♦ garden patch ♦ Habitrol Patch ♦ have not a patch on ♦ he is not a patch on ♦ mineral patch ♦ Minitran Patch ♦ NicoDerm CQ Patch ♦ Nicotrol Patch [OTC] ♦ Nitrek Patch ♦ Nitrodisc Patch ♦ not a patch on ♦ not a patch on it! ♦ not a patch on smth. ♦ not to be a patch on ♦ oil patch ♦ patch a tyre ♦ patch board ♦ Patch Grove ♦ patch ice ♦ patch of blue sky ♦ patch of ground ♦ patch of oil ♦ patch of reflected light ♦ patch pocket ♦ patch pumpkin ♦ patch space ♦ patch test ♦ Patch Tests ♦ patch together ♦ patch up ♦ patch up a guilt ♦ patch up a quarrel ♦ patch with ♦ pepper patch ♦ Peyer's patch ♦ ProStep Patch ♦ puncture patch ♦ purple patch ♦ rust patch ♦ sand patch method ♦ shoulder patch ♦ soft patch ♦ strike a bad patch ♦ Transderm Scop Patch ♦ vegetable patch ♦ white patch. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "patch": patch-based, patch-clamp, Patch-Clamp Techniques, patch-covered, Patch-hall, patch-over, patch-owner, patch-pipette, patch-through, patch-up, Patch-work. | |
Ending with "patch": eye-patch, wing-patch. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
penis enlargement patch | 5,932 | patch place | 249 |
patch | 1,964 | cabbage patch doll | 248 |
military patch | 1,792 | national aeronautics and space administration patch | 244 |
the sims patch | 771 | pc game patch | 227 |
birth control patch | 669 | city patch vice | 224 |
the sims nude patch | 635 | iron on patch | 219 |
game patch | 629 | police patch | 208 |
half life patch | 527 | nation patch rise | 196 |
weight loss patch | 514 | gta3 patch | 194 |
diet patch | 476 | city gta patch vice | 171 |
counter strike patch | 383 | gooseberry patch | 169 |
cabbage patch kid | 352 | star craft patch | 168 |
1942 battlefield patch | 352 | nicotine patch | 166 |
patch panel | 332 | honor medal patch | 164 |
cd no patch | 329 | black patch white | 158 |
diablo 2 patch | 305 | cabbage patch | 154 |
enter matrix patch | 296 | unreal tournament patch | 139 |
patch adam | 286 | 3 gta patch | 137 |
warcraft 3 patch | 285 | 2003 live nba patch | 137 |
embroidered patch | 266 | morrowind patch | 136 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "patch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pjesë (allotment, block, Cantel, Cantle, component, contingent, deal, divvy, helping, interest, kit, leg, length, limb, line, lot, part, partition, piece, portion, proportion, quantum, quota, quotient, rate, scrap, section, segment, share, slice, snack, span), vel fytyre, njollë (blemish, blot, blotch, blur, cloud, discoloration, imputation, Mark, mote, nebula, plash, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, taint), ngastër (location, lot, Nick, parcel, plot), i vë arnë, fashë (band, bandage, gauze, roller bandage, sling, swathe), copë toke (plot), bandazh (band, bandage), ballomë, arnoj (cobble, doctor, mend, vamp), arnë (clout). (various references) | |
Arabic | جزء مغلق من مساحة, بقعة (blot, blotch, macula, smear, smudge, spatter, speck, splash, splotch, spot, stain, streak, terrain), رقع (botch, cobble, piece, repair, sew), رقع الجرح, رقعة قماشية, رمم (furbish, mend, recondition, reconstructed, redeem, refit, refurbish, refurbishment, rehabilitate, renovate, repair, restore, revamp), رمم أو يصلح, بركة (beatitude, benediction, blessing, boon, mercy, mere, pan, pond, receptacle, tank), اللصوق التجميلي, مستنقع (bog, fen, marsh, marshland, mire, moor, morass, moss, ooze, pond, quag, quagmire, slew, slough, sump, swamp), صفيحة معدنية (splint), سوى (accommodate, adjust, but, compose, compound, dispose, equalize, equate, even, flatten, normalize, regularize, settle, smooth, straighten), تصالح (be reconciled, fence, make up, reconcile, reconciliation), غطى بلصوق تجميلي أو واق, قطعة صغيرة من أي شىء, لصق (affix, cement, fasten, fix, glue, gum, paste, post, splice, stick, stick down, unite), إرتقع. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | остатък (balance, difference, dreg, end, odd-come-short, overage, remainder, remnant, residual, residue, residuum, shank, stub, surplus, the rest), изкуствена бенка, парче (bar, bit, cake, catch, cob, cut, cutting, dollop, fragment, lump, piece, portion, scrap, section, slice, slip, slipping, snatch, splint, splinter), парче пластир за рана, парченце (bit, lick, scrap, shred, sippet, snap, snip), закърпвам (darn, mend, piece, piece up, revamp, stitch up, vamp), изглаждам (adjust, atone, calender, face, file, iron out, level, make up, patch up, plane, planish, polish, polish up, press out, reconcile, sleek, slick, smarm, smooth, sponge out), оправям (adjust, disembroil, disentangle, do a room, heal, make, planish, pull round, pull through, put in order, put right, readjust, right, righten, set right, sleave, straighten, tide, true, unbend, unkink, unravel, wipe up), уреждам (acquit, arrange, atone, compose, deal, dispose of, fix up, ground, negotiate, organize, patch up, pay, quit, regulate, set right, settle, sew up, tee up, work out, wrap, wrap up), кръпка (botch, mend, patching), къс (brief, cob, fraction, fragment, fritter, jimp, length, little, morsel, piece, portion, scrimpy, short, skimpy, slip, slipping), кърпя (mend, repair, translate, vamp), тъмна превръзка за око, служа за кръпка, скърпвам как да е (patch up), малко парче земя (plat). (various references) | |
Chinese | 補綴 (mend), 補丁 , 补丁. (various references) | |
Czech | příštipek, zašít (darn, patch up, sew up), záplatovat (tinker), záplata (clout), spravit (mend, repair), náplast (plaster, sticking plaster), kousek (bit, cut, inchmeal, jot, mammock, nibble, parcel, part, piece, scrap, shred, wedge, whit). (various references) | |
Danish | reparere (fix, mend, patch up, repair). (various references) | |
Dutch | stop (electric plug, plug, stop, stopper), lapwerk, lap (Laplander, Lapp, rag, scrap), ingezet stuk. (various references) | |
Esperanto | fliki (mend, patch up), flikaĵo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | pjøssa (mend, patch up), bjarva (mend, patch up), bøta (fix, mend, patch up, repair). (various references) | |
Farsi | مشمع روی زخم , مدت (Duration, Interval, Length, Life, Outage, Period, Stretch, Term, Time, Tract, Usance), قطعه زمین (Lot), وصله ناجور, وصله کردن (Clobber, Clout, Piece, Vamp), وصله دوزی کردن , وصله (Imp, Inset, Splotch, Vamp), تکه (Bit, Dab, Fragment, Glimmer, Gob, Goblet, Item, Loaf, Lot, Lump, Morsel, Nub, Pane, Portion, Scrap, Shiver, Shred, Slab, Slice, Smidgen, Whit), تعمیرکردن (Imp, Mend, Refashion, Refit, Rehash, Remodel, Renovate, Repair, Restore, Tinker, Vamp), زمان معین , جالیز, بهم جورکردن (Pan). (various references) | |
Finnish | paikka (job, locality, location, place, point, position, post, room, seat, site, situation, spot), paikata (fill, mend, repair, stop). (various references) | |
French | tache, rustine, rapiécer (patch up), plaque (pane), pièce (spare part), correction. (various references) | |
German | flicken (botch, cobble, darn, mend, odds and ends, patch up, repair, tinker, to botch, to cobble, to mend, vamp), ausbessern (correct, darn, improve, mend, patch up, refit, repair, restore, to darn, to mend, to patch, to refit, to remodel, to repair, touch up). (various references) | |
Greek | μπάλωμα (botch, darn, makeshift). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מטלית (cloth, duster, flannel, mop, rag, swab), לאחות (darn, fasten, get together, join, piece, piece together, stitch together), להטליא, לטלא, כתם (mole, slur, smear, smudge, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, tarnish), טלאי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tapasz (bandage, plaster). (various references) | |
Indonesian | potong (bar), tempel (adhere), tambalan (darn, repairs), menempel (adhere, cling, glue, stick), menambal (mend, trowel). (various references) | |
Italian | toppa (keyhole), pezza (cloth, diaper, piece, rag, roll, spot). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | パチンコ台 (glassed-over arcade, pachinkomachine, pack, package, package media, package program, package tour, packaging, Packard, packing, pad, paddle, paddling, paddock, Panama, Panamax, Panasert hole, panavision, pap, passage, passenger, passing, passion, passionate, passive, passive smoking, passive solar house, passive sonar, pat, patch test, patchwork, pate, patent, pathos, patio, patriotism, patrol, patrol car, patron, patting, priest, puck, putt, putting, putting green, putty, rotating warning light similar to the one on a "patokaa."). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | パッチ . (various references) | |
Korean | 헝겊 조각. (various references) | |
Manx | preaban (circus, demesne, fair, fairground, hippodrome, piece of land, plot), peesh (bit, cutting, length, length of thread, piece), paitsey, paddag, meer (bait, bit, bite, bite of food, coin, element, extract, fleck of dust, item, number, par, part, passage, piece, portion, scrap, section, segment), karraghey (cobble, darn, doctor, fix, overhaul; cobbling, repair, revise, revision), clampey (clamp, patch up), clamp. (various references) | |
Maya | iisil (sweet potato patch). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atchpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | remendo (botch, clout, mend, mending, piece, tinker), remendar (botch, bushel, clout, darn, fudge, mend, patch up, piece, revamp, run up, slubber, vamp). (various references) | |
Romanian | petic (rag, shred, vamp), patã (blemish, blot, blur, breath, dab, flaw, fleck, Mark, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, spatter, spill, splash, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish, ulcer), petici, plasture (court plaster, plaster), pune petice la, circumscripţie (area, district, division, parish), întãriturã (sconce), aluniţã (beauty spot, mole), bandaj pentru ochi, benghi, bucatã (article, bar, brick, clod, cut, dollop, fragment, hunk, junk, length, morsel, nub, part, Pat, piece, ribbon, shred, slice, snack, steak, tablet), interval scurt, caplama, rãmãşiţã (end, fag end, oddment, remainder, remnant, residue, rest, survival, tailing, trace, vestige), înjgheba (assemble, collect, gather, knock off, raise), tresã (braid, lace, piping, stripe), zonã (area, belt, country, digging, district, neighborhood, neighbourhood, parish, province, sector, space, surface, zone), servi de petic la, rest (balance, carry over, change, end, oddment, remainder, remanent, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, rump, survival, tailing), raion (department, district, parish, section), bucatã rãmasã. (various references) | |
Russian | ставить заплаты, рудный карман, времянка, накладка (onlay, strap), заплата (botch, clout, vamp), лоскут (clout), латать (vamp), пятно (attaint, blemish, blot, blotch, blur, cloud, fleck, imputation, moil, reflection, reflexion, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, spot, spots of, stain, stigma, taint), пачка (batch, pack, packet, tutu), пластырь (plaster), исправлять корректор. (various references) | |
Scottish | tuthag, bréid (a kerchief, kerchief, napkin, piece of cloth). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pramen (coma, lock, tress, tussock, wisp), poravnati (even, level, patch up, planish, realign), parče (chip, piece, shiver, shred, slice, slip, strip), zakrpiti (mend, piece, vamp), zakrpa (mend, vamp), staviti zakrpu, sloj (coat, layer, ledge, ply, strata, stratum, thickness), izmiriti (patch up, reconcile). (various references) | |
Spanish | remendar (doctor, doctor up, mend, patch up, repair, revamp, tinker, vamp), parche (adhesive plaster, blow patch, eye patch, puncture patch), ajuste (adjustment, assembly, breaking in, fit, make up, mounting, scaling, setting). (various references) | |
Swedish | lappa (clout, cobble), lapp (clout, laplander, Lapp, piece, rag, scrap, slip, tab, tag, ticket), laga (fix, lawful, legal, make, mend, piece, prepare, repair), flik (edge, flap, fringe, lobe, tab, tag), flicka (cobble, damsel, gal, girl, lass, mend, Miss, patch up, she, wench). (various references) | |
Turkish | plaster (adhesive bandage, Band aid, court plaster, plaster), parça (attachment, batch, bit, cake, Cantle, component, cut, dribblet, driblet, fraction, fragment, gobbet, item, lump, moiety, morsel, part, passage, piece, portion, scrap, segment, shred, snatch, tool), yamamak (doctor, foist, inflict, piece up, repair, revamp, vamp up), yama (botch, darn, vamp), yüze takılan siyah tül, toprak parçası (clod, homestead, piece of land), arsa (holding, land, lot, plat, plot). (various references) | |
Turkmen | яama. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | клаптик, вкриватися плямами (dapple), латка (botch, clout, vamp), латати, пов'язка но оці. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vết (impression, maculation, mark, print, speck, trace), miếng vá miếng băng dính, mảnh vụn gặp vận bỉ, không thấm gót khi đem so sánh với, đốm lớn mảnh thừa. (various references) | |
Welsh | llannerch (glade, spot), llain (narrow strip, piece), clytio (piece), clwt (clout, rag). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pannus, resarcio. (various references) |
| Middle Dutch | 1100-1500 | placke. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "patch": patchboard, patchboards, patched, patcher, patchers, patches, patchier, patchiest, patchily, patchiness, patchinesses, patching, patchouli, patchoulies, patchoulis, patchouly, patchwork, patchworks, patchy. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "patch": crosspatch, despatch, dispatch, mispatch, repatch. (additional references) | |
Words containing "patch": crosspatches, despatched, despatches, despatching, dispatched, dispatcher, dispatchers, dispatches, dispatching, mispatched, mispatches, mispatching, repatched, repatches, repatching. (additional references) | |
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"Patch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aptc, Aptech, aptychi, atch, pach, Pacho, Pacht, Pachta, pachucho, padc, Paich, Partc, Partch, partech, pataca, patche, Patchog, patha, pathi, patic, patk, Patsch, pech, pertch, pictch, Postech, ppatch, Ptac, Ptak, pushch, putch, spatch. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "patch" (pronounced pa"kh) |
| 3 | p a" kh | dispatch. |
| 2 | -a" kh | attach, batch, brach, catch, detach, hatch, latch, mache, match, mismatch, overmatch, reattach, rematch, scratch, snatch, thatch. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: chapt. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-p-t" | |
-1 letter: caph, chap, chat, pact, path, phat, tach. | |
-2 letters: act, apt, cap, cat, hap, hat, pac, pah, pat, pht, tap. | |
-3 letters: ah, at, ha, pa, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-p-t" | |
+1 letter: haptic, hepcat, patchy, phatic. | |
+2 letters: aphetic, aphotic, catchup, chapati, chaplet, chapter, chutzpa, hepatic, hepcats, matchup, patched, patcher, patches, potlach, repatch, spathic. | |
+3 letters: apothece, atrophic, cachepot, calthrop, catchups, cenotaph, chapatis, chapatti, chapiter, chaplets, chappati, chapters, cheapest, chutzpah, chutzpas, deathcup, despatch, dispatch, empathic, emphatic, haptenic, haptical, hepatica, hepatics, heptarch, matchups, mispatch, nightcap, parritch, pastiche, patchers, patchier, patchily, patching, pathetic, penchant, pentarch, petechia, phratric, phreatic, phthalic, pistache, pitchman, planchet, potlache, potlatch, pushcart, scyphate, whitecap. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Frequency 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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