Patch vs Pat - 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.
*, chapter=8
, title= 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
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.
* 1610 , , act 3 scene 2
The sound of a light slap or tap with a soft flat object, especially of a footstep
A light tap or slap, especially with the hands
A flattish lump of soft matter, especially butter or dung.
* Charles Dickens
To (gently) tap the flat of one's hand on a person or thing.
* 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 22[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/22]
To hit lightly and repeatedly with the flat of the hand to make smooth or flat
* 1900 , L. Frank Baum , The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
(Australia, New Zealand) To stroke or fondle (an animal).
To gently rain.
timely, suitable, apt, opportune, ready for the occasion; especially of things spoken
* 1788, Cowper, Pity for Africans , p 18
trite, being superficially complete, lacking originality
* 2010, New York Times ,
opportunely, in a timely or suitable way.
* c''. 1600 , William Shakespeare, '' III.iii
Perfectly.
patent
(knitting) pattern
* 2012 , Kari Cornell, Knitting Sweaters from around the World (page 52)
As a proper noun patch
is .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
* See alsoSee also
* diff * diff fileEtymology 2
Noun
(es)- What a pied ninny's this! Thou scurvy patch !
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . For loss of ''l , compare (patch) for (platch); (pate) for (plate), etc. See (l).Noun
(en noun)- It looked like a tessellated work of pats of butter.
Derived terms
* pat on the back (n.) * patter * pitter-pat: a diminutive of footfalls. "the pitter-pat of little feet running around the house."Verb
(patt)- To show affection, he decided he would pat the boy on the head.
- He came round to each of us to pat and speak to us for the last time; his voice sounded very sad.
- I patted the cookie dough into shape.
- Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints.
- Do you want to pat the cat?
Derived terms
* pat down * pat on the back (v.)Adjective
(en adjective)- a pat expression
- A story so pat , you may think it is coined.
Editorial: Jobs and the Class of 2010, May 23.
- The pat answer is that college students should consider graduate school as a way to delay a job search until things turn around, and that more high school students should go to college to improve their prospects. ''
Derived terms
* pat handAdverb
(en adverb)- Now might I do it pat
- He has the routine down pat .
Derived terms
* pat in the middleSee also
* strike * hit * feel * nameEtymology 2
Abbreviation.Noun
(en noun)- Work in pat to next underarm marker, sm, place next st on holder