English Dictionary

patch

/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.

日本語の意味

（名詞）衣服の穴や破れを補修・補強するために縫い付ける布の切れ端、あて布

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

彼女は彼のお気に入りのジャケットの穴に当て布を丁寧に縫い付けて、着られるようにした。

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.

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.

意味（3）

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.

意味（4）

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.

意味（5）

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

Scattered patches of trees or growing corn.

意味（6）

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.

意味（7）

(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.

意味（8）

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

意味（9）

(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.

意味（10）

(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.

意味（11）

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

意味（12）

(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.

意味（13）

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

意味（14）

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

意味（15）

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

soundboard patch

意味（16）

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

意味（17）

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

patches （ plural ）