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▸ noun: A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location, time, size)
▸ noun: (specifically) A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground.
▸ noun: A local region of professional responsibility.
▸ noun: (historical) 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.
▸ noun: (medicine) A piece of material used to cover a wound.
▸ noun: (medicine) 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.
▸ noun: (medicine) A cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch.
▸ noun: A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
▸ noun: (computing) A piece of data intended to modify a computer file by replacing a part of it.
▸ noun: (firearms) A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.
▸ noun: (firearms) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
▸ noun: (often patch cable, patch cord, etc.; see also patch panel) A cable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment.
▸ noun: (music) A sound setting for a musical synthesizer (originally selected by means of a patch cable).
▸ noun: (printing, historical) An overlay used to obtain a stronger impression.
▸ noun: A butterfly of the genus Chlosyne.
▸ verb: To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
▸ verb: To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on.
▸ verb: To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt.
▸ verb: To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt.
▸ verb: To employ a temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system.
▸ verb: (generally with the particle "up") To repair or arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner
▸ verb: (computing) To make the changes a patch describes; to apply a patch to the files in question. Hence:
▸ verb: To fix or improve a computer program without a complete upgrade.
▸ verb: To make a quick and possibly temporary change to a program.
▸ verb: To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable.
▸ noun: (archaic) A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.
▸ noun: A surname.
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