Patch

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

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

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

"This patch should hold until you reach the city," the mechanic said as he patted the car's hood.

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

To me, a normal cow is white with black patches, but Sarah's from Texas and most of the cows there have solid brown, black, or red coats.

Doesn't that patch of clouds looks like a bunny?

When ice skating, be sure to stay away from reeds: there are always thin patches of ice there, and you could fall through.

scattered patches of trees or growing corn

There was a blackberry patch down by the creek, and his grandparents called the pasture down there the cow patch.

Just the suggestion that a good blueberry patch was near would bring everything to a standstill.

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.

[…] formed a contact with a man, who was the secretary of the tenants' association of a small housing estate in the social worker's patch.

Your black patches you wear variously.

...Then the patches had to be placed—patches full of sentiment, coquetry, and bits of opinions as minute as themselves. Essences and powder had to he scattered together, and Henrietta's long black tresses gathered into a mass which might fairly set all the orders of architecture at defiance.

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

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

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.

soundboard patch

A synthesizer comes with controls to store patches and edit them. Some high-end synthesizers even have floppy disks for additional patch storage.

My coat needs patching.

That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.

I patched together this quilt.

[the control panel of hovercraft The Logos has lit up after being jumped by The Hammer] Sparky: She lives again. Crew member of The Hammer via radio: You want us to patch an uplink to reload the software, Sparky? Sparky: Yeah, that'd be swell. And can you clean the windshield while you're at it?

The truce between the two countries has been patched up.

I'll need to patch the preamp output to the mixer.

Shylock: The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder, Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day More than the wild-cat;[…]

Caliban: What a pied ninny's this! Thou scurvy patch![…]

By the Master's report made in the said causes, dated the 18th of June, 1849, the said Master certified that the total amount then due and owing to the Plaintiff John Patch for such arrears of the annuities and annual payments of the said Susanna Jemima Hicks amounted to the sum of 4,489l. 15s.[…]

Tim Patch, also known as "Pricasso" for painting up to 20 portraits a day using his penis and sometimes his buttocks, was a guest on Breakfast with O'Neil on Thursday morning. ... "Sexpo is also about a little bit of naughty fun. Miss Nude Australia, Adrianna Starr, revealed a little more than her personality on air on Friday morning, and Pricasso produced a live demonstration of his unique talent."

Among my uncle Roger's farm servants, Esau Fletcher and Peter Patch came to the parsonage house.