Definitions of patchwork [ˈpætʃˌwɜrk]

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Definition of 'patchwork'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) patchwork
something made up of incongruous pieces or parts; mélange.

2. patchwork
work consisting of pieces of material of various colors or shapes sewed together, as for a quilt or cushion.

3. (adj.) patchwork
resembling a patchwork; makeshift; improvised.

4. (v.t.) patchwork
to make as patchwork:
to patchwork skirts.

Etymology: (1685–95)

Definition of 'patchwork'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) patchwork, hodgepodge, jumble
a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas

2. (noun) patchwork, patchwork quilt
a quilt made by sewing patches of different materials together

3. (noun) patchwork
sewing consisting of pieces of different materials sewn together in a pattern

Definition of 'patchwork'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) patchwork
work composed of pieces sewed together, esp. pieces of various colors and figures; hence, anything put together of incongruous or ill-adapted parts; something irregularly clumsily composed; a thing putched up

Translation of 'patchwork'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: cloth made by sewing small pieces of material together a skirt made of patchwork; (
Afrikaans: lapwerk	Arabic: ثَوْب او لحاف مكوَّن من ق	Bulgarian: възглавница, покривка и п
Brazilian: (colcha) de retalhos	Czech: sešívaná ruční práce; seš	German: das Patchwork; Patchwork-
Danish: patchwork; klude-	Greek: συρραφή ρεταλιών, κουρελο	Spanish: labor de retazos/retales
Estonian: lappidest rõivas, lapi-	Farsi: چهل تکه	Finnish: tilkku-
French: (en) patchwork	Hebrew: עֲבוֹדַת טְלָאִים	Hindi: चप्पाकारी
Croatian: krparija, nešto složeno o	Hungarian: darabokból összevarrt tak	Indonesian: tambal-tambalan
Icelandic: bútasaumur	Italian: patchwork	Japanese: つぎはぎ細工、パッチワーク
Korean: 쪽매붙임	Lithuanian: durstinys iš skiautelių	Latvian: no gabaliņiem sašūts rokd
Malay: kerja tampal cantum	Dutch: lapjeswerk, lappen-	Norwegian: lappeteknikk; i lappetekn
Polish: tkanina zszyta z różnych	Persian: چهل تکه	Pashto: له بيلو بيلو ټوټو څخه جوړ
Portuguese: (colcha) de retalhos	Romanian: (pânză făcută din) petice	Russian: лоскутное изделие
Slovak: zošívaná ručná práca; zoš	Slovenian: krpičasto blago	Serbian: pačvork
Swedish: lapptäcksarbete	Thai: สิ่งที่เกิดจากการปะติดปะต	Turkish: yama işi
Taiwanese: 拼布(將各色布片拼湊縫綴而成)，（形容詞)拼布的	Ukrainian: клаптикова ковдра; зшитий	Urdu: پيوند سے تيار شدہ کپڑا
Vietnamese: miếng vải chắp vá	Chinese: 拼布（用各色布片缝缀而成）
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