Patress vs Patness - What's the difference?
patress | patness |
an adapting plate or mounting used to fix an object to a surface or a substrate where the difference in character between the object and that to which it is mounted prevents direct mounting, eg in fitting a flat panel to a curved surface
The state or quality of being pat
* {{quote-news, 1988, January 29, Anthony Adler, K-2/The Indian Wants the Bronx, Chicago Reader
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As nouns the difference between patress and patness
is that patress is an adapting plate or mounting used to fix an object to a surface or a substrate where the difference in character between the object and that to which it is mounted prevents direct mounting, eg in fitting a flat panel to a curved surface while patness is the state or quality of being pat.patress
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* pattressNoun
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* (wikipedia "patress")patness
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