patch
verb
- to mend or supply with a patch
noun
- imitation beauty spot, sometimes in decorative shapes, applied to the face or decollatage for ornament
- piece of software designed to update a computer program to fix or improve it
- piece of textile or leather applied to clothing as a reinforcement against wear or to mend a damaged spot
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /pæt͡ʃ/
name
Etymology: English and German surname of uncertain origin; perhaps from a nickname related to Peter.
- A surname.
“By the Master's report made in the said causes, dated the 18th of June, 1849, the said Master certified that the total amount then due and owing to the Plaintiff John Patch for such arrears of the annuities and annual payments of the said Susanna Jemima Hicks amounted to the sum of 4,489l. 15s.[…]”
“Tim Patch, also known as "Pricasso" for painting up to 20 portraits a day using his penis and sometimes his buttocks, was a guest on Breakfast with O'Neil on Thursday morning. ... "Sexpo is also about a little bit of naughty fun. Miss Nude Australia, Adrianna Starr, revealed a little more than her personality on air on Friday morning, and Pricasso produced a live demonstration of his unique talent."”
noun
Etymology: Perhaps borrowed from Italian pazzo or paggio; the form influenced by folk etymological association with patch (Etymology 1).
- A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.
“Shylock: The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder, Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day More than the wild-cat;[…]”
“Caliban: What a pied ninny's this! Thou scurvy patch![…]”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English patche, of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of earlier Middle English placche (“patch, spot, piece of cloth”), from Old English *plæċċ, *pleċċ (“a spot, mark, patch”), from Proto-West Germanic *plakkju, from Proto-Germanic *plakjō (“spot, stain”). For the loss of l compare pat from Middle English platten. Germanic cognates would then include Middle English plecke, dialectal English pleck (“plot of ground, patch”), West Frisian plak (“place, spot”), Low German Plakk, Plakke (“spot, piece, patch”), Dutch plek (“spot, place, stain, patch”), Dutch plak (“piece, slab”), Swedish plagg (“garment”), Faroese plagg (“cloth, rag”). Or, possibly a variant of Old French pieche, dialectal variant of piece (“piece”). Compare also Old Occitan petaç (“patch”).
- To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
“My coat needs patching.”
“That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.”
- To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on.
- To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt.
“I patched together this quilt.”
- To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt.
- To employ a temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system.
“[the control panel of hovercraft The Logos has lit up after being jumped by The Hammer] Sparky: She lives again. Crew member of The Hammer via radio: You want us to patch an uplink to reload the software, Sparky? Sparky: Yeah, that'd be swell. And can you clean the windshield while you're at it?”
- To repair or arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner
“The truce between the two countries has been patched up.”
- To make the changes a patch describes; to apply a patch to the files in question. Hence:
- To make the changes a patch describes; to apply a patch to the files in question. Hence:
- To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable.
“I'll need to patch the preamp output to the mixer.”