Patch vs Change - What's the difference?
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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 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,
A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location, time, size);
A small piece of black silk stuck on the face or neck to heighten beauty; an imitation beauty mark.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(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.
(medicine) 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.
(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).
To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.
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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
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.
(archaic) A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.
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To become something different.
(ergative) To make something into something different.
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To replace one's clothing.
To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.)
(archaic) To exchange.
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To change hand while riding (a horse).
(countable) The process of becoming different.
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(uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
(countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes
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(uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
(countable) A transfer between vehicles.
(baseball) A change-up pitch.
(lb) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
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A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
A public house; an alehouse.
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As a proper noun patch
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(lb) change.patch
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) patche, . Alternatively, perhaps a variant of (etyl) .Noun
(es)- His sleeves had patches on the elbows where different fabric had been sewn on to replace material that had worn away.
- I can't afford to replace the roof, which is what it really needs. I'll have the roofer apply a patch .
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.
- 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.
- Your black patches you wear variously.
- Many people use a nicotine patch to wean themselves off of nicotine.
- He had scratched his cornea so badly that his doctor told him to wear a patch .
Synonyms
* (piece of black silk) beauty spot * section, area, blotch, spot, period of time, spell, stretch * diff fileDerived terms
* cabbage patch * not a patch on * patch file * patch up * patchwork * patchyVerb
(es)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=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.}}
- [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?
Synonyms
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* diff * diff fileEtymology 2
Noun
(es)- What a pied ninny's this! Thou scurvy patch !
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Verb
(chang)citation, passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}
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Focus on Everything, passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.
- At the first sight / they have changed eyes. (exchanged looks )
- I would give any thing to change a word or two with this person.
- to change a horse
Synonyms
* (to make something different) alter, modify * (to make something into something different) transformDerived terms
* changeable * change by reversal * change course * change direction * changeful * change out * change hands * change horses in midstream * change integrity * changeling * change one's mind * change one's tune * change places * change tack * change the channel * change the subject * change up * chop and change * everchanging * get changed * leopard change his spots * presto change-o *Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change , the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}
- The product is undergoing a change in order to improve it.
- Can I get change for this $100 bill please?
citation, page= , passage=After beating champions Chelsea 3-1 on Boxing Day, Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger made eight changes to his starting XI in an effort to freshen things up, with games against Birmingham and Manchester City to come in the next seven days.}}
- A customer who pays with a 10-pound note for a £9 item receives one pound in change .
- The train journey from Bristol to Nottingham includes a change at Birmingham.
- Four bells admit twenty-four changes in ringing.
- They call an alehouse a change .
