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Definition of 'PATCH'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) patch
a small piece of material used to mend a tear or break, cover a hole, or strengthen a weak place.

2.  patch
a piece of material used to cover or protect a wound, an injured part, etc.

3.  patch
an adhesive patch that applies to the skin and gradually delivers drugs or medication to the user:
using a nicotine patch to try to quit smoking.

4.  patch
any of the pieces of cloth sewn together to form patchwork.

5.  patch
a small piece, scrap, or area of anything:
a patch of ice on the road.

6.  patch
a small plot, esp. one in which a specific type of plant grows:
a cabbage patch.

7.  patch
a cloth emblem worn on the sleeve of a military uniform to identify the wearer's unit.

8.  patch
an organizational or affiliational emblem of cloth sewn to one's jacket, shirt, cap, etc.

9.  patch
a tiny, usu. black piece of material applied to the face or neck, as to set off a feature or to cover a flaw.

10.  patch
a connection or hookup, as between radio circuits or telephone lines.

11. (v.t.) patch
to mend, cover, or strengthen with or as if with a patch.

12.  patch
to repair or restore, esp. in a hasty or makeshift way (usu. fol. by up).

13.  patch
to make by joining patches or pieces together:
to patch a quilt.

14.  patch
to settle or smooth over (a quarrel or difference) (often fol. by up).

15.  patch
(esp. in radio and telephone communications) to connect or hook up (circuits, programs, conversations, etc.) (often fol. by through, into, etc.).

16. (v.i.) patch
to make a connection between radio circuits, telephone lines, etc. (often fol. by in or into).

17. (n.) patch
clown; fool.

Etymology: (1540–50; perh. < It pazzo fool)

Definition of 'PATCH'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) spot, speckle, dapple, patch, fleck, maculation
a small contrasting part of something
"a bald spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice"; "a fleck of red"

2. (noun) plot, plot of land, plot of ground, patch
a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
"a bean plot"; "a cabbage patch"; "a briar patch"

3. (noun) patch
a piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole

4. (noun) while, piece, spell, patch
a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition
"he was here for a little while"; "I need to rest for a piece"; "a spell of good weather"; "a patch of bad weather"

5. (noun) patch
a short set of commands to correct a bug in a computer program

6. (noun) temporary hookup, patch
a connection intended to be used for a limited time

7. (noun) mend, patch, darn
sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment)
"her stockings had several mends"

8. (noun) eyepatch, patch
a protective cloth covering for an injured eye

9. (verb) bandage, patch
a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body

10. (verb) patch, piece
to join or unite the pieces of
"patch the skirt"

11. (verb) patch
provide with a patch; also used metaphorically
"The field was patched with snow"

12. (verb) patch, patch up
mend by putting a patch on
"patch a hole"

13. (verb) piece, patch
repair by adding pieces
"She pieced the china cup"

Definition of 'PATCH'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) patch
a part of a surface that is different from the area around it
dangerous icy patches on the road; a patch of dry skin

2.  patch
a piece of material sewn over a tear in a piece of clothing
a patch on her jeans

3.  patch
an object worn over one eye for protection
an eye patch

4.  patch
software used on a computer to improve its performance
to download a patch

5.  patch
a bad/rough/difficult etc. patch
a period of time with problems
a rough patch in their marriage

6. (verb) patch
to sew a patch onto a tear in a piece of clothing

Definition of 'PATCH'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) PATCH
a piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a hole

2. (noun) PATCH
a small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc

3. (noun) PATCH
a small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty

4. (noun) PATCH
a piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore

5. (noun) PATCH
fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn

6. (noun) PATCH
a block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting

7. (noun) PATCH
a paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool

8. (verb) PATCH
to mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat

9. (verb) PATCH
to mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house

10. (verb) PATCH
to adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches

11. (verb) PATCH
to make of pieces or patches; to repair as with patches; to arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner; -- generally with up; as, to patch up a truce

Definitions of 'PATCH'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. PATCH
1. n. A temporary addition to a piece of code, usually as a quick-and-dirty remedy to an existing bug or misfeature. A patch may or may not work, and may or may not eventually be incorporated permanently into the program. Distinguished from a diff or mod by the fact that a patch is generated by more primitive means than the rest of the program; the classical examples are instructions modified by using the front panel switches, and changes made directly to the binary executable of a program originally written in an HLL. Compare one-line fix.

2. vt. To insert a patch into a piece of code.

3. [in the Unix world] n. A diff (sense 2).

4. A set of modifications to binaries to be applied by a patching program. IBM operating systems often receive updates to the operating system in the form of absolute hexadecimal patches. If you have modified your OS, you have to disassemble these back to the source. The patches might later be corrected by other patches on top of them (patches were said to “grow scar tissue”). The result was often a convoluted patch space and headaches galore.

5. [Unix] the patch(1) program, written by Larry Wall, which automatically applies a patch (sense 3) to a set of source code.

There is a classic story of a tiger team penetrating a secure military computer that illustrates the danger inherent in binary patches (or, indeed, any patches that you can't — or don't — inspect and examine before installing). They couldn't find any trap doors or any way to penetrate security of IBM's OS, so they made a site visit to an IBM office (remember, these were official military types who were purportedly on official business), swiped some IBM stationery, and created a fake patch. The patch was actually the trapdoor they needed. The patch was distributed at about the right time for an IBM patch, had official stationery and all accompanying documentation, and was dutifully installed. The installation manager very shortly thereafter learned something about proper procedures.

Translation of 'PATCH'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a piece of material sewn on to cover a hole She sewed a patch on the knee of her jeans.
Afrikaans: lap	Arabic: رُقْعَه	Bulgarian: кръпка
Brazilian: remendo	Czech: záplata	German: der Flicken
Danish: lap	Greek: μπάλωμα	Spanish: remiendo, parche
Estonian: lapp, paik	Farsi: وصله	Finnish: paikka
French: pièce	Hebrew: טְלָאי	Hindi: पैवंद
Croatian: krpa, zakrpa	Hungarian: folt	Indonesian: tambalan
Icelandic: bót	Italian: toppa	Japanese: つぎ
Korean: 덧대는 조각	Lithuanian: lopas	Latvian: ielāps
Malay: tampalan	Dutch: lap	Norwegian: lapp, bot
Polish: łata	Persian: وصله	Pashto: پاچ ( يوډول ټوكر): ټوټه پ
Portuguese: remendo	Romanian: petic	Russian: заплатка
Slovak: záplata	Slovenian: zaplata	Serbian: zakrpa
Swedish: lapp	Thai: รอยปะ	Turkish: yama
Taiwanese: 補丁	Ukrainian: латка	Urdu: پيوند
Vietnamese: miếng vá	Chinese: 补丁
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