Patch

What do we mean by patch?

A small piece of material affixed to another, larger piece to conceal, reinforce, or repair a worn area, hole, or tear. noun

A small piece of cloth used for patchwork. noun

A small cloth badge affixed to a garment as a decoration or an insignia, as of a military unit. noun

A dressing or covering applied to protect a wound or sore. noun

A pad or shield of cloth worn over an eye socket or an injured eye. noun

A transdermal patch. noun

A small piece, part, or section, especially that which differs from or contrasts with the whole. noun

A small plot or piece of land, especially one that produces or is used for growing specific vegetation. noun

An indefinite period of time; a spell. noun

A temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system. noun

A piece of code added to software in order to fix a bug, especially as a temporary correction between two releases. noun

To put a patch or patches on. intransitive verb

To make by sewing scraps of material together. intransitive verb

To mend, repair, or put together, especially hastily, clumsily, or poorly. intransitive verb

To connect temporarily (electronic components), as with a patch cord. intransitive verb

To correct a bug in (an item of software), especially as a temporary correction between releases. intransitive verb

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.

A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.

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.

A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location, time, size)

(specifically) A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground.

A local region of professional responsibility.

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.

A piece of material used to cover a wound.

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.

A cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch.

A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.

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.

A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.

A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.

(often patch cable, patch cord etc.; see also patch panel) A cable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment.

A sound setting for a musical synthesizer (originally selected by means of a patch cable).

An overlay used to obtain a stronger impression.

In Computer Software industry: the process of taking old bugs out and putting new ones in. Urban Dictionary

(n.) an electronic file alteration intended to correct or update a faulty or vulnerable file, akin to a cloth 'patch'. Urban Dictionary

Female frontal pubic hair area trimmed into the shape of a rectangle. Urban Dictionary

To "make out with"; Australian teen slang term. Urban Dictionary

A spot of hair that is missing from your head usually used as a cap for cappers Urban Dictionary

A patch is usually intended to modify an executable file to improve it. A patch is obviously a digitalized file which has been programmed to take out programming faultys and errors and replace them with a correct line of code. A patch can be written by any programmer with a open source executable file (that they wish to modify). Patches can also be written by programmers to convert trial softwares to full version softwares, this includes games. The word for adding patches to executable files to modify it illegally is called, when spoken by someone "patched". Look below Urban Dictionary

Synonymous with crack. In computer hacker terminology, a patch is an editing of a certain data file or executable that enables the end user to bypass the copy protection normally included in said data file. A patch usually consists of editing only a few bytes of assembly code. Urban Dictionary

Something fabric you can stitch on a sweater/backpack/trousers/etc. Urban Dictionary

A place you drive, walk, bike, wutever, to go smoke marijuana and enjoy scenery. or redneck event which involves illegal activities out in the boonies. Origin: BC canada Urban Dictionary

A hot looking guy with a good body. Found in australia normally sydney Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to patch:
patch, pitch, catch, match, path, watch, hatch, latch, batch, parch, natch, potch, ratch, pasch, panch, yatch, gatch, petch, atch, tatch, patco, pach, satch, patct, ptch, partch, vatch, datch.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word patch:
suffusion, dorsum, costal, patches, blackish, forewing, clamp, fuscous, rump, indistinct, cords, fascia, suffused, apical, apex, paler, oblique, medial, edged, underside, whitish, sleeve, basal, costa, yellowish, scales, pale, anal, hind, belly, dorsal, throat, bug, feathers, transverse, bugs, fold, worn, veins, fix, kernel, occupying, insignia, darker, abdomen, posterior, breast, margin, update, anterior, extending, spots, vein, grey, marginal, outer, tail, shoulder, dark, streak, dot, antenna, badge, irregular, eye, skin, uniform, yellow, spot, kids, linux, larvae, wings, wing, inner, colour, chest, subspecies, cell, edge, brown, angle, tip, logo, grass, beyond, neck, wear, wore, adults, orange, black, terminal, white, beneath, legs, narrow, bright.

Words that rhyme with patch:
catch, match, scratch, dispatch, hatch, snatch, latch, batch, attach, thatch, detach, mismatch, mache, natch, tache, brach, potlatch, ratch, klatch, slatch, rache, rach, scatch, rematch, booby hatch, lache, overmatch, cratch, reattach, trache, vache, gatch, edward thatch, crache, thach, smatch, gach, fache, lach, bache, love match, tatch, kach, fair catch, fratch, stach, vlach, sparring match, drach, escape hatch, test match, krach, flach, friction match, safety catch, boxing match, slow match, shoestring catch, hach, safety match, silver thatch, glottal catch, cumberbatch, night latch, bratsch, tkach, matsch, wrestling match, grzywacz, unattach, whitlatch, latsch, tatsch, thermopatch.

Adjectives that are often used to describe patch:
small, white, little, black, large, red, dark, yellow, green, single, brown, bald, circular, bright, tiny, bare, triangular, bad, big, blue, rough, mucous, shaped, purple, thick, broad, round, open, gray, rectangular, dry, isolated, irregular, oval, wet, dense, pale, conspicuous, clear, light, soft, damp, grey, occasional, flat, whitish, grassy, narrow, smooth, pericardial, nine, coloured, colored, erythematous, sandy, acre, faint, thin, reddish, huge, able, oblong, prosthetic, scaly, nice, distinct, adhesive, epidural, darker, dull, yellowish, brilliant, muddy, sized, barren.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective patch:
work, clamp, blocks, test, testing, eye, clamping, tests, coat, simpson, bolt, mesostriatal, units, box, shaneen, based, minute, modeling, bay, head, allocation, tels, type, unit, boxes, breech, panel.

Consonant match to patch:
pitch, perch, pouch, poach, peach, putsch, pooch, potch, poche, piche, piech, pietsch, puche, pitsch, petsche, pautsch, petsch.

Words that sound like patch:
patch, pach, pitch, peach, pouch, pooch, poach, pash, pich, putsch, potch, poche, puche, padge, petch, peche, piche, pitsch, pietsch, piech, petsche, pooc, pasche, pucc, batch, bache, pass, page, pack, push, pal, pan, pat, perch, posh, pac, paige, pah, patched, pudge, patchy, pak, podge, pav, pish, patt, purch, pesh, eyepatch, pacha, pirch, patcher, pge, lbj, panch, pige, patte, ptch, pacho, prach, pch, poge, palle, paque, paj, paq, panne, pij, posch, pann, pusch, perche, pesch, pej, paage, paje, peage, eye patch, peaje, pakke, ppat, bitch, beach, bash, badge, botch, beech, buch, bouche, betch, boche, bouch, booch, baj, bauch, beotch, buche, bashe, basch, bouc.