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Patch
Patch Patch, n. [OE. pacche; of uncertain origin, perh. for placche; cf. Prov. E. platch patch, LG. plakk, plakke.] 1. 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. Patches set upon a little breach. --Shak. 2. Hence: A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc. 3. A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty. Your black patches you wear variously. --Beau. & Fl. 4. (Gun.) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore. 5. Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn. Employed about this patch of ground. --Bunyan. 6. (Mil.) A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting. 7. A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool. [Obs. or Colloq.] ``Thou scurvy patch.' --Shak. Patch ice, ice in overlapping pieces in the sea. Soft patch, a patch for covering a crack in a metallic vessel, as a steam boiler, consisting of soft material, as putty, covered and held in place by a plate bolted or riveted fast.

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- vertebrates. Patched is an essential gene in embryogenesis for proper segmentation in the fly embryo, mutations in which may be embryonic lethal. Patched functions...
- Patch collecting Patched, a protein receptor Patchwork, a form of needlework This disambiguation page lists articles ****ociated with the title Patch....
- described in the PATCH do****ent must be semantically well defined but can have a different media type than the resource being patched. Languages such as...
- program being patched. When the patched program is run, execution is directed to the new code with branch instructions (jumps or calls) patched over the place...
- In astrodynamics, the patched conic approximation or patched two-body approximation is a method to simplify trajectory calculations for spacecraft in a...
- Briar Patch or variants may refer to: a thicket formed by thorny plants Briar Patch, a place in the fictional Br'er Rabbit stories Briar Patch (Star Trek)...
- The patch clamp technique is a laboratory technique in electrophysiology used to study ionic currents in individual isolated living cells, tissue sections...
- Patches & Pockets was a Sa****ay morning television show that aired for over eighteen years in Toledo, Ohio on TV channel 11, WTOL. The title characters...
- A brood patch, also known as an incubation patch, is a patch of featherless skin on the underside of birds during the nesting season. Feathers act as inherent...
- subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. Rosy-patched shrike (female) specimen Nairobi National Museum Rosy-patched shrike from Tsavo National Park, Kenya,...