patch

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/pæt͡ʃ/

名詞

特定用法 歴史的 通常

A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole.

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She carefully sewed a patch over the hole in his favorite jacket to keep it wearable.

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意味（1）

A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole.

His sleeves had patches on the elbows where different fabric had been sewn on to replace material that had worn away.

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意味（2）

A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.

I can't afford to replace the roof, which is what it really needs. I'll have the roofer apply a patch.

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A piece of any size, used to repair something for a temporary period only, or that it is temporary because it is not meant to last long or will be removed as soon as a proper repair can be made, which will happen in the near future.

Before you can fix a dam, you have to apply a patch to the hole so that everything can dry off.

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A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location, time, size)

The world economy had a rough patch in the 1930s.

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(specifically) A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground.

Scattered patches of trees or growing corn.

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A local region of professional responsibility.

There is a lot to be said in praise of the local or regional outlet that keeps very closely across the doings and news in their patch.

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(historical) A small piece of black silk stuck on the face or neck to heighten beauty by contrast, worn by ladies in the 17th and 18th centuries; an imitation beauty mark.

Your black patches you wear variously.

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(medicine) A piece of material used to cover a wound.

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(medicine) An adhesive piece of material, impregnated with a drug, which is worn on the skin, the drug being slowly absorbed over a period of time.

Many people use a nicotine patch to wean themselves off of nicotine.

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(medicine) A cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch.

He had scratched his cornea so badly that his doctor told him to wear a patch.

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A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.

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(computing) A patch file, a file that describes changes to be made to a computer file or files, usually changes made to a computer program that fix a programming bug.

Immediately following the incident Siemens commissioned a software patch that will allow units which protectively shut down below 49Hz to recover themselves without the need of a reboot or laptop when the frequency rises to 49.5Hz. At the beginning of September, this patch was being verified by Siemens software engineers at Erlangen in Germany.

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(firearms) A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.

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

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(often patch cable, patch cord, etc.; see also patch panel) A cable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment.

soundboard patch

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(music) A sound setting for a musical synthesizer (originally selected by means of a patch cable).

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(printing, historical) An overlay used to obtain a stronger impression.

patches （ 複数形 ）