Patch vs Yard - 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
A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building ().
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, title= An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
* {{quote-book, year=1931, author=
, title=Death Walks in Eastrepps
, chapter=2/2 (Jamaica) One’s house or home.
To confine to a yard.
* 1893 , Elijah Kellogg, Good old times, or, Grandfather's struggles for a homestead
(nautical) A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hung at right angles to the mast, the latter two hang obliquely.
(nautical) Any spar carried aloft ().
A staff, rod or stick.
A unit of length equal to three feet (exactly 0.9144 metres in the US and UK; ).
* , chapter=1
, title= (US, slang) One hundred dollars.
(obsolete) The penis.
*, II.12:
*:there were some people found who tooke pleasure to unhood the end of their yard , and to cut off the fore-skinne after the manner of the Mahometans and Jewes.
As proper nouns the difference between patch and yard
is that patch is while yard is (scotland yard) or (new scotland yard).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 !
External links
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* ----yard
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) yard, .Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard —peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
citation, passage=A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard .}}
Derived terms
See also Yard * apple-yard * back yard, back-yard, backyard * barn-yard, barnyard * bone-yard, boneyard * brickyard * castle yard * chapel yard * churchyard * court-yard, courtyard * deer-yard, deeryard * dockyard * door-yard, dooryard * dung-yard * farm-yard, farmyard * fore-yard * front yard * graveyard * green-yard, greenyard * grip-yard * hemp-yard * hop-yard * inn-yard, innyard * junk-yard, junkyard * kailyard, kaleyard * kirkyard * knacker's yard * liberty of the yard * lumber-yard, lumberyard * marshaling yard, marshalling yard * mast-yard * navy yard, navy-yard * olive-yard * * palace yard * par-yard * poultry-yard * press-yard * rick-yard, rickyard * rope-yard * sale-yard, saleyard * schoolyard * scrapyard * shipyard * show-yard * stable-yard * stack-yard, stackyard * steelyard * stockyard * straw yard * switchyard * tan-yard, tanyard * tenter-yard * tilt-yard, tiltyard * timber-yard, timberyard * vinegar-yard * vineyard * wood-yard, woodyard * yardage * yard bird, yardbird * yard-boy * yard broom * yard-dike * yard-dog * yardful * yard grass, yard-grass * yardhove * yarding * yardland * yardman * yardmaster * yard-money * yardperson * yard sale * yardsman * yardswoman * yard work, yard-workVerb
(en verb)- As they reached the door, Bose, having yarded the cows, was stealing around the corner of the pig-sty, and making for the woods.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) yerd, , German Gerte.Noun
(en noun)- (Piers Plowman)
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’