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Patching vs Latching - What's the difference?

patching | latching |

As verbs the difference between patching and latching

is that patching is while latching is .

As nouns the difference between patching and latching

is that patching is the act of one who patches while latching is (nautical) a loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail.

As an adjective latching is

of something that es.

patching

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who patches.
  • * 1766 , Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
  • all this is not neatness, but frippery. These rufflings, and pinkings, and patchings , will only make us hated by all the wives of our neighbours.

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    latching

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Adjective

    (head)
  • Of something that es.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
  • , author=(Henry Petroski) , title=Opening Doors , volume=100, issue=2, page=112-3 , magazine= citation , passage=A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail.