Patch vs Bank - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between patch and bank

is that patch is 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 while bank is an institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.

As verbs the difference between patch and bank

is that patch is to mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat while bank is to deal with a bank or financial institution.

As a proper noun Patch

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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

, title= 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.}}

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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bank
English

Alternative forms
* (all obsolete)
Etymology 1
From (etyl) banke, from (etyl) .
Noun
(en noun)
An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=71, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= End of the peer show , passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.
A branch office of such an institution.

An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque .

A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.

* Francis Bacon

Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money.

(gambling) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.

In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.

A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.

A device used to store coins or currency.

If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank .

Synonyms
* (controller of a card game) banker
Derived terms
* bankability * bankable * bank account * bank agent * bank balance * bank bill * bank book * bank card * bank charges * bank cheque * bank clerk * bank draft * banker * bank giro * bank holiday * bank interest * bank loan * bank manager * banknote * bank of deposit * bank of issue * bank paper * bank rate * bank reserves * bank statement * bank stock * blood bank * bottle bank * break the bank * banking * bankroll * central bank * clearing bank * cry all the way to the bank * databank * food bank * investment bank * * joint-stock bank * laugh all the way to the bank * memory bank * merchant bank * national bank * peat bank * penny bank * piggy bank * pot bank * prime bank * private bank * reserve bank * savings bank * sperm bank * spoil bank * state bank * stopbank * take it to the bank * trustee savings bank * World Bank
Related terms
* bankrupt
Verb
(en verb)
To deal with a bank or financial institution.

He banked with Barclays.

To put into a bank .

I'm going to bank the money.

Derived terms
* bank on
Etymology 2
(etyl) banke, from (etyl) .
Noun
(en noun)
(hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.

* Shakespeare

Tiber trembled underneath her banks .

* 2014 , Ian Jack, " Is this the end of Britishness", The Guardian , 16 September 2014:

Just upstream of Dryburgh Abbey, a reproduction of a classical Greek temple stands at the top of a wooded hillock on the river’s north bank .

(nautical, hydrology) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).

the banks of Newfoundland

(geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.

(aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.

(rail transport) An incline, a hill.

A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.

The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.

(mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.

(mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.

(mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.

Ores are brought to bank .

Derived terms
* bank up * clay-bank * cloud bank * embank * embankment * land bank * Left Bank * left-bank * oyster bank * right-bank * river bank * sand bank * sea bank * West Bank
Verb
(en verb)
(aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.

To cause (an aircraft) to bank .

To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.

to bank sand

To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.

To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.

* Holland

banked well with earth

(obsolete) To pass by the banks of.

(Shakespeare)

Etymology 3
(etyl) .
Noun
(en noun)
A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.

a bank of switches

a bank of pay phones

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, date=December 10 , author=Marc Higginson , title=Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Wanderers were finally woken from their slumber when Kevin Davies brought a fine save out of Brad Guzan while, minutes after the restart, Klasnic was blocked out by a bank of Villa defenders.}}
A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.

Verb
(en verb)
(order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.

Etymology 4
Probably from (etyl) banc. Of German origin, and akin to English bench.
Noun
(en noun)
A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.

* Waller

Placed on their banks , the lusty Trojans sweep / Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep.

A bench or seat for judges in court.

The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc.

(Burrill)

(archaic, printing) A kind of table used by printers.

(music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.

(Knight)

(uncountable) slang for money

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