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Repairing vs Patching - What's the difference?

repairing | patching |

As verbs the difference between repairing and patching

is that repairing is while patching is .

As nouns the difference between repairing and patching

is that repairing is the act by which something is repaired; a mending while patching is the act of one who patches.

repairing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is repaired; a mending.
  • * 1800 , James Jones Morgan, Epistolary Correspondence (page 14)
    • he would not consent to raise any part of the money advanced on the gates, notwithstanding the necessity of the repairings , and the conveniences which would ensue to the school from it.

    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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