Patched vs Matched - What's the difference?

patched | matched |

As verbs the difference between patched and matched

is that patched is (patch) while matched is (match).

As an adjective patched

is having been patched.

patched

English

Adjective

(-)

Having been patched.

Verb

(head)

(patch)

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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matched
English

Verb
(head)
(match)

match
English

Etymology 1
From (etyl) macche, from (etyl)
Noun
(es)
(sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.

My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today.

Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.

* Drayton

many a warlike match

* Dryden

A solemn match was made; he lost the prize.

Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.

He knew he had met his match .

* Addison

Government makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow subjects.

A marriage.

A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.

* Clarendon

She was looked upon as the richest match of the West.

Suitability.

Equivalence; a state of correspondence. (rfex)

Equality of conditions in contest or competition.

* Shakespeare

It were no match , your nail against his horn.

A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.

The carpet and curtains are a match .

An agreement or compact.

* Shakespeare

Thy hand upon that match .

* Boyle

Love doth seldom suffer itself to be confined by other matches than those of its own making.

(metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly embedded when a mould is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mould.

Derived terms
* cage match * first class match * friendly match * grudge match * * love match * Man of the Match/man of the match * match fixing * match made in heaven * match made in hell * matchless * matchmaker * match play/matchplay * matchplayer * match point * match referee * * one-day match * overmatch * post-match * rubber match * shouting match * slanging match * steel cage match * Test match * tour match * whole shitting match * whole shooting match
Verb
(es)
(lb) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.

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(lb) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.

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*:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

*{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
, chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.}}
(lb) To make a successful match or pairing.

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*{{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. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.}}
(lb) To equal or exceed in achievement.

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(lb) To unite in marriage, to mate.

*1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) , :

*:Adam's sons are my brethren; and truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.

*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

*:A senator of Rome survived, / Would not have matched his daughter with a king.

To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.

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Derived terms
* match drill * matcher * matchup * matchy * * overmatch * unmatch
See also
* mate
Etymology 2
From (etyl)
Noun
(es)
Device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.

He struck a match and lit his cigarette.

Synonyms
* spunk
Derived terms
* fireplace match * matchbook, matchbox, matchlock * matchgirl * phosphorus match * quick match * safety match * slow match * strike-anywhere match * sulfur match * sulphur match
See also
* fire, lighter, cigarette lighter * strike (to strike a match)