Bed vs Patch - What's the difference?

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Bed is a synonym of patch.

As a proper noun patch is

bed

English

Noun

(en noun)

A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, for resting or sleeping on.

# A prepared spot to spend the night in.

# (lb) One's place of sleep or rest.

# Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.

# The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.

# (lb) Time spent in a bed.

# (lb) Marriage.

#* (1609-1674)

George, the eldest son of his second bed .

# Sexual activity.

A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.

# The bottom of a lake or other body of water.

# An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, or other sessile shellfish is found.

# A garden plot.

Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

# A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.

# The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.

# The platform of a truck, trailer, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.

# A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.

# The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.

# A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.

# (lb) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.

(lb) A layer or surface.

# A deposit of ore, coal, etc.

# (lb) the smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below.

# (lb) The horizontal surface of a building stone.

# (lb) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.

(Knight)

# (lb) A course of stone or brick in a wall.

Usage notes

Sense 1. To prepare a bed is usually to "make" the bed , or (qualifier) to "spread" the bed, the verb spread probably having been developed from bedspread. Like many nouns denoting places where people spend time, (term) requires no article after certain prepositions: hence , and so on. The forms (term), etc. do exist, but tend to imply mere presence in the bed, without it being for the purpose of sleep. See also

Derived terms

* air bed/airbed * alveolar bed * apple-pie bed * bed and breakfast * bed blocker * bedbound * bedbug * bedchamber * bed check * bedclothes * bed cover * bedder * bedding * bedfast * bedfellow * bed ground * bed hair * bed head * bed-hop * bed jacket * bed linen * bed load * bedload * bedmate * bed-mould * bed of justice * bed of pelts * bed of roses * bedpan * bedpost * bed push * bedridden * bedroom * bed sheet, bedsheet * bedside * bedspread * bedspring * bedstead * bed-sitter, bedsitter * bed tea * bed trick * breakfast in bed * bunk bed * camp bed * canopy bed * capillary bed * coal bed * creek bed * day bed * death bed/deathbed * divan bed * double bed * feather bed/featherbed * filter bed * flatbed * flower bed, flowerbed * four-poster bed * French bed * gatch bed * get up on the wrong side of the bed * go to bed * go to bed with * Hollywood bed * hospital bed * hot bed/hotbed * in bed * interbedded * key bed * make one's bed and lie in it * make the bed * marker bed * Murphy bed * nail bed/nailbed * orthopedic bed * out of bed * oyster bed * pencil-post bed * pig bed * pissy bed * plank bed * platform bed (see platform) * procrustean bed * put to bed * red under the bed * river bed * roller bed * sea bed * shit the bed * single bed * sleigh bed * sofa bed/sofa-bed * sunbed * take to one's bed * tanning bed * test bed * truckle bed * trundle bed * twin bed * wake up on the wrong side of the bed * water bed, waterbed * wet the bed * you make the bed you lie in

Verb

(bedd)

Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.

# To go to a bed. (rfex)

# To place in a bed.

(Francis Bacon)

# To put oneself to sleep. (rfex)

# To furnish with a bed or bedding.

# (slang) To have sexual intercourse with.

Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.

# To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.

#* Wordsworth:

Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded .

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# To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.

# To set out (plants) in a garden bed.

# To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.

# To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.

#* Shakespeare:

bedded hair

# To settle, as machinery.

Derived terms

* bed down * embed

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patch

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) patche, . Alternatively, perhaps a variant of (etyl) .

Noun

(es)

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.

His sleeves had patches on the elbows where different fabric had been sewn on to replace material that had worn away.

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

I can't afford to replace the roof, which is what it really needs. I'll have the roofer apply a patch .

A repair intended to be used for a limited time; (differs from previous usage in that it is intended to be a temporary fix and the size of the repair is irrelevant).
This usage can mean that the repair is temporary because it is an early but necessary step in the process of properly, completely repairing something,

Before you can fix a dam, you have to apply a patch to the hole so that everything can dry off.
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.

"This patch should hold until you reach the city," the mechanic said as he patted the car's hood.

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

The world economy had a rough patch in the 1930s.

The storms last summer washed away parts of the road so we can expect some rough patches up ahead.

To me, a normal cow is white with black patches , but Sarah's from Texas and most of the cows there have solid brown, black, or red coats.

Doesn't that patch of clouds looks like a bunny?

I lost my locket in this patch of grass here.

When ice skating, be sure to stay away from reeds, there's always thin patches of ice there and you could fall through.

I never get first place because on track eight, right after you pass the windmill, there's a patch of oil in the road that always gets me.

A small piece of black silk stuck on the face or neck to heighten beauty; an imitation beauty mark.

* Beaumont and Fletcher

Your black patches you wear variously.

(medicine) A piece of material used to cover a wound.

(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.

Many people use a nicotine patch to wean themselves off of nicotine.

(medicine) A cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch.

He had scratched his cornea so badly that his doctor told him to wear a patch .

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

(computing) A patch file, a file used for input to a patch program or that describes changes 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.

A cable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment.

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

Synonyms

* (piece of black silk) beauty spot * section, area, blotch, spot, period of time, spell, stretch * diff file

Derived terms

* cabbage patch * not a patch on * patch file * patch up * patchwork * patchy

Verb

(es)

To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.

*, chapter=8

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To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on.

To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt.

To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt.

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

* (rfdate) The Matrix Revolutions , Scene: Starting the Logos, 00:43:09 - 00:43:32

[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; – generally with up; as, to patch up a truce.

(computing) To make the changes a patch describes; to apply a patch to the files in question. Hence:

# To fix or improve a computer program without a complete upgrade.

# To make a quick and possibly temporary change to a program.

To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable.

Synonyms

* See also

Etymology 2

Noun

(es)

(archaic) A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.

* 1610 , , act 3 scene 2

What a pied ninny's this! Thou scurvy patch !

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