Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of mending by the addition of a patch or patches.
- noun A patch, or patches collectively; a patched place.
- noun Wadding for a rifle-ball.
- noun Patchery; hypocrisy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of mending a hole in a garment by sewing a patch over it.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
patch .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of mending a hole in a garment by sewing a patch over it
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Examples
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Apple picking/pumpkin patching is out because they did it last weekend.
In Washington, kid-friendly entertainment abounds beyond the National Mall Post 2010
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We did manage to make Fairfield running on the rim of the wheel without damage, where a good hour was spent in patching the leak.
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Mr. SCHNEIER: It does to some (unintelligible) I mean the vulnerabilities are being corrected, but patching is sloppy.
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Mr. SCHNEIER: It does to some (unintelligible) I mean the vulnerabilities are being corrected, but patching is sloppy.
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Careful scraping and peeling of old wallpaper can keep gouge marks down, but some patching is usually needed.
No getting around it: Going from wallpaper to paint on drywall is a chore Gene Austin 2010
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Mr. SCHNEIER: It does to some (unintelligible) I mean the vulnerabilities are being corrected, but patching is sloppy.
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Mr. SCHNEIER: It does to some (unintelligible) I mean the vulnerabilities are being corrected, but patching is sloppy.
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Mr. SCHNEIER: It does to some (unintelligible) I mean the vulnerabilities are being corrected, but patching is sloppy.
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Luckily they succeeded in patching it up, in some mysterious French way.
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They forgot also that in patching up the treaty with Turkey the other Allies had to be considered.
frogapplause commented on the word patching
I've never heard patching used in this context:
"Apple picking and pumpkin patching is out because they did it last weekend.”
July 13, 2012