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Definition: Patching |
PatchingNoun1. The act of mending a hole in a garment by sewing a patch over it. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "patching" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Building & Civil Engineering | The repair of a small area of sett paving by raising setts, and introducing sand so as to restore the level of the surface to that of the adjoining paving. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Repairing or restoring small isolated surface areas. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The removal of localised areas of failed, uncompacted or unsatisfactory materials from a road pavement which is then replaced with selected compacted materials. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Publishing & Graphic Arts | I. patch: a replacement of part of a printing plate, as an electrotype (a 3-line patch). WEBIN 66. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Patching |
| English words defined with "patching": Consarcination. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "patching": AIRPORT-MAINTENANCE CHIEF ♦ clasp machine operator, core fitter, core paster, coremaker helper ♦ drier operator, DRY-KILN OPERATOR, DRY-KILN OPERATOR HELPER ♦ FOUNDRY LABORER, COREROOM, FURNITURE ASSEMBLER-AND-INSTALLER ♦ GLASS-LINED TANK REPAIRER ♦ HOUSE REPAIRER ♦ MACHINE OPERATOR, GENERAL, MAINTENANCE WORKER, MUNICIPAL ♦ PAINTER, SHIPYARD, Patch, patching up, PATCHING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ ramming and patching refractories, repairs, RESTORER, PAPER-AND-PRINTS ♦ SKI REPAIRER, PRODUCTION, superintendent, maintenance, airports, SUPERVISOR, ASPHALT PAVING, SUPERVISOR, SMOKE CONTROL ♦ tank refinisher, tension machine operator, TIRE REPAIRER ♦ white hat hacker. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Patching Things Up (1924) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Mrs. Gallagher patching clothes for her children. Wife of former farmer, now living in Crosby, North Dakota.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mrs. Carl Thorson patching clothes in home. Crosby, North Dakota.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cajun woman patching in corner of living room. Near Crowley, Louisiana.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "Patching" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Patching" is used about 42 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 85.71% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.14% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.14% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 42 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "patching": patching up. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "patching": patching-up. | |
Ending with "patching": darning-and-patching. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "patching"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кръпка (botch, mend, patch), малък ремонт, заваряване (sweating, welding), поправка (alteration, amendment, correction, rectification, renovation, repair, reparation, restoration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 修补 (fettle, Fettling, Patched, revamp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sprøjtepudsning (fettling), slyngning (fettling, turn), opsaette patch-block (tiling), lokale overfladeudbedringer, loebende vedligeholdelse af vej (mending), lapning (finish, lapping, patel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | plaatselijke reparatie, vorzetten van stenen (tiling), repareren (fettling, fix, repair), onderhoud volgens fliksysteem (mending), lokaal onderhoud, klampen (tiling), flikken (fettling, finish, finishing, mend, patch, patch up, patel), aanwerpen met vuurvaste stoffen (fettling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | paikkaus (fettling, patch, replacement of failed area). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | point- -temps, point temps, soufflage, repiquage, rafistolage, réparations locales, réparation des réfractaires, gunitage, entretien continu, emploi partiel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Vorsetzen (dish up, forward-space, move forward, offer, put forward, put in front, serve up, tiling, to forward space), Hebung (elevation, heaving, heightening, improvement, raising, recovery, rise, upheaval, uplift, uplift (of the earth's crust), upthrust), Flicken der Strasse (mending), Flicken (botch, cobble, darn, fettling, mend, odds and ends, patch, patch up, repair, tinker, to botch, to cobble, to darn, to mend, vamp), Flickarbeit (darning, mending, patchwork), Ausflicken der Strasse (mending), Ausbessern (correct, darn, improve, mend, patch, patch up, refit, repair, restore, retouch, revise, to darn, to mend, to patch, to refit, to remodel, to repair, to touch up, touch up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μπάλωμα με πλάκες πυριμάχων (tiling), επισκευή πυριμάχων τοιχωμάτων (fettling), επιδιόρθωση πυρίμαχων τοιχωμάτων (fettling), επιδιορθώσεις, τοπική επισκευή, τοπικαί επισκευαί. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | foltozás (Goring, spotting, tapping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | penambalan (act of patching), tempel ban (inner tube patching service), tambal-sulam (repair by patching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | punto a tempo, rivestire i blocchi (tiling), riparazioni locali, rincalzatura (earthing, earthing up, earthing-up, hilling, hilling up, hilling-up rebedding, overhauling, ridging), rattoppo (mend, mending, patch), manutenzione con il metodo del punto a tempo (mending). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 継ぎ接ぎ , 継ぎはぎ , 綴り (binding, orthography, spelling), 綴 (binding, orthography, spelling), 切貼り , 切り貼り (cut and paste), 切り張り . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きりばり (cut and paste), きりはり (cut and paste), つぎはぎ, つづり (binding, orthography, spelling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 깁. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atchingpay revestimento com placas (tiling), reparações locais, reparação do refractário (fettling), remendos, rebarbar (fettle, fettling), conservação corrente. (various references) breòcladh (clumsy patching). (various references) placado (tiling), parcheo, parcheado (tiling), parchado, restauración de rasante, reparaciones locales, reparación del revestimiento (fettling), gunitado (fettling, gunning), forro (backing, bearing, bearing brass, bearing lining, bearing shell, between-deck ceiling, binding, bolster, bush, bushing, case, ceiling, cover, dust cover, dust jacket, journal bearing, lagging, lining, planking, serving, sheathing, skin, sleeve, tiling, wadding), bacheo. (various references) putssprutning (fettling), lappning (overlay, patch), lagning (cooking, finishing, mending, repair, repairing), laga (finish, fix, lawful, legal, make, mend, patch, patel, piece, prepare, repair, tiling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "patching": despatching, dispatching, mispatching, repatching. (additional references) | |
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"Patching" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apchin, Patchen, patchin, Patchings, Patchog, Patthana, pauchling, pecheneg, pething, Phatphong, pithing, potching. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "patching" (pronounced pa"khing) |
| 5 | p a" kh i ng | dispatching. |
| 4 | -a" kh i ng | attaching, catching, hatching, latching, matching, scratching, snatching. |
| 3 | -kh i ng | approaching, arching, beaching, belching, bleaching, branching, breaching, broaching, bunching, clinching, clutching, coaching, crouching, crunching, ditching, drenching, encroaching, enriching, entrenching, etching, fetching, flinching, hitching, impeaching, inching, itching, launching, leaching, lunching, lurching, lynching, marching, mulching, munching, overarching, overreaching, pinching, pitching, poaching, preaching, punching, quenching, ranching, reaching, researching, retouching, retrenching, scorching, screeching, searching, sketching, slouching, snitching, squelching, stanching, stitching, stretching, switching, teaching, torching, touching, twitching, unflinching, vouching, watching, witching, wrenching. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: nightcap. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-h-i-n-p-t" | |
-1 letter: gnathic. | |
-2 letters: aching, acting, canthi, catnip, haptic, hating, hatpin, pacing, painch, phatic, taping. | |
-3 letters: acing, actin, aitch, antic, aping, chain, chang, chant, chapt, china, giant, inapt, natch, night, paint, panic, patch, patin, pinch, pinta, pitch, thing. | |
-4 letters: agin, anti, cain, cant, caph, chap, chat, chia, chin, chip, chit, gain, gait, ghat, gnat, hang, hant, hint, inch, itch, nigh, nipa, pact, pain, pang, pant, path, phat, pian, pica, pina, ping, pint, pita, pith, tach, tain, tang, than, thin, ting. | |
-5 letters: act, ain, ait, ani, ant, apt, can, cap, cat, chi, cig, gan, gap, gat, ghi, gin, gip, git, hag, hap, hat, hic, hin, hip, hit, ich, nag, nah, nap, nip, nit, nth, pac, pah, pan, pat, phi, pht, pia, pic, pig, pin, pit, tag, tan, tap, tic, tin, tip. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-h-i-n-p-t" | |
+1 letter: nightcaps. | |
+2 letters: chaptering, pathogenic, repatching. | |
+3 letters: despatching, dispatching, mispatching, parachuting, potlatching. | |
+4 letters: antipoaching, camphorating, ethnographic, outpreaching, pantographic, pathogenetic, scintigraphy, stenographic. | |
+5 letters: anthropogenic, cinematograph, gonadotrophic, hectographing, hypothecating, nonpathogenic, pathogenicity, pathognomonic, phagocytizing, phagocytosing, scintigraphic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 74 63 68 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- - -.-. .... .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a t c h i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0074 0063 0068 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5067866974758073 |
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