Crazyquilt vs Patchwork - What's the difference?
crazyquilt | patchwork |
A patchwork; a textile formed of seemingly random and unmatched pieces of fabric sewed together with no regular pattern.
(by extension) Any random assortment of things.
*1914 , John Vietch Shoemaker, Health and Beauty , page 201:
*2003 , Loren W. Cooper, A Slow and Silent Stream , page 88:
*2005 , Edwin S. Gaustad, Unto A Good Land: A History Of The American People - Volume 1 , page 568:
Formed by a seemingly random assortment of things.
*1975 , Ruth I. Knee, Human Factors in Long Term Health Care , page 63:
*2000 , Joseph L. Sax, Legal Control of Water Resources: Cases and Materials , page 758:
*2013 , Douglas Schofield, Succession , page 37:
A work, such as a blanket, composed of many different colors and shapes, sewn together to make an interesting whole.
Any kind of creation that utilizes many different aspects to create one, whole piece.
* Bill took all of his poetry and put it together in a folder. It made up a patchwork of his life.
To create a patchwork from pieces of fabric
To assemble from a variety of sources; to cobble together
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As nouns the difference between crazyquilt and patchwork
is that crazyquilt is a patchwork; a textile formed of seemingly random and unmatched pieces of fabric sewed together with no regular pattern while patchwork is a work, such as a blanket, composed of many different colors and shapes, sewn together to make an interesting whole.As an adjective crazyquilt
is formed by a seemingly random assortment of things.As a verb patchwork is
to create a patchwork from pieces of fabric.crazyquilt
English
Noun
(en noun)- The mind becomes a rag-bag of information capable of affording nothing in production but a crazyquilt of information.
- The staggered effect of random building resulted in a crazyquilt of dead ends and narrow, jagged alleyways.
- The plains was a crazyquilt of immigrant/ethnic communities of Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, Germans, Russian Germans, Poles, Czechs, Russians, Eastern European Jews, and others.
Adjective
(en adjective)- World War II drained the community of physicians and health personnel, created housing shortages and job mobility, and served to push more people into a crazyquilt variety of nursing homes which seemed to assure housing and medical care.
- Furthermore, groundwater doctrines follow a much more crazyquilt pattern, and several states have unique statutory approaches to groundwater.
- The stark glare reflecting from the screen spread a crazyquilt pattern of light and shadow across the vaulted ceiling above.
