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English Dictionary: patch by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
patch
n
  1. a small contrasting part of something; "a bald spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice"; "a fleck of red"
    Synonym(s): spot, speckle, dapple, patch, fleck, maculation
  2. a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation; "a bean plot"; "a cabbage patch"; "a briar patch"
    Synonym(s): plot, plot of land, plot of ground, patch
  3. a piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole
  4. a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition; "he was here for a little while"; "I need to rest for a piece"; "a spell of good weather"; "a patch of bad weather"
    Synonym(s): while, piece, spell, patch
  5. a short set of commands to correct a bug in a computer program
  6. a connection intended to be used for a limited time
    Synonym(s): temporary hookup, patch
  7. sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment); "her stockings had several mends"
    Synonym(s): mend, patch, darn
  8. a protective cloth covering for an injured eye
    Synonym(s): eyepatch, patch
  9. a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body
    Synonym(s): bandage, patch
v
  1. to join or unite the pieces of; "patch the skirt" [syn: patch, piece]
  2. provide with a patch; also used metaphorically; "The field was patched with snow"
  3. mend by putting a patch on; "patch a hole"
    Synonym(s): patch, patch up
  4. repair by adding pieces; "She pieced the china cup"
    Synonym(s): piece, patch
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Patch \Patch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Patched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Patching}.]
      1. To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather,
            or the like; as, to patch a coat.
  
      2. To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to
            repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.
  
      3. To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.
  
                     Ladies who patched both sides of their faces.
                                                                              --Spectator.
  
      4. To make of pieces or patches; to repair as with patches;
            to arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner; -- generally with
            up; as, to patch up a truce. [bd]If you'll patch a
            quarrel.[b8] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.] [bd]Thou scurvy patch.[b8] --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.

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   patch   1. n. A temporary addition to a piece of code, usually
   as a {quick-and-dirty} remedy to an existing bug or misfeature.   A
   patch may or may not work, and may or may not eventually be
   incorporated permanently into the program.   Distinguished from a
   {diff} or {mod} by the fact that a patch is generated by more
   primitive means than the rest of the program; the classical examples
   are instructions modified by using the front panel switches, and
   changes made directly to the binary executable of a program
   originally written in an {HLL}.   Compare {one-line fix}.   2. vt. To
   insert a patch into a piece of code.   3. [in the Unix world] n. A
   {diff} (sense 2).   4. A set of modifications to binaries to be
   applied by a patching program.   IBM operating systems often receive
   updates to the operating system in the form of absolute hexadecimal
   patches.   If you have modified your OS, you have to disassemble
   these back to the source.   The patches might later be corrected by
   other patches on top of them (patches were said to "grow scar
   tissue").   The result was often a convoluted {patch space} and
   headaches galore.   5. [Unix] the `patch(1)' program, written by
   Larry Wall, which automatically applies a patch (sense 3) to a set
   of source code.
  
      There is a classic story of a {tiger team} penetrating a secure
   military computer that illustrates the danger inherent in binary
   patches (or, indeed, any patches that you can't -- or don't --
   inspect and examine before installing).   They couldn't find any
   {trap door}s or any way to penetrate security of IBM's OS, so they
   made a site visit to an IBM office (remember, these were official
   military types who were purportedly on official business), swiped
   some IBM stationery, and created a fake patch.   The patch was
   actually the trapdoor they needed.   The patch was distributed at
   about the right time for an IBM patch, had official stationery and
   all accompanying documentation, and was dutifully installed.   The
   installation manager very shortly thereafter learned something about
   proper procedures.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   patch
  
      1. A temporary addition to a piece of code, usually
      as a {quick-and-dirty} remedy to an existing {bug} or
      {misfeature}.   A patch may or may not work, and may or may not
      eventually be incorporated permanently into the program.
      Distinguished from a {diff} or {mod} by the fact that a patch
      is generated by more primitive means than the rest of the
      program; the classical examples are instructions modified by
      using the front panel switches, and changes made directly to
      the binary executable of a program originally written in an
      {HLL}.   Compare {one-line fix}.
  
      2. To insert a patch into a piece of code.
  
      3. [in the Unix world] A {diff}.
  
      4. A set of modifications to binaries to be applied by a
      patching program.   {IBM} systems often receive updates to the
      {operating system} in the form of absolute {hexadecimal}
      patches.   If you have modified your OS, you have to
      disassemble these back to the {source code}.   The patches
      might later be corrected by other patches on top of them
      (patches were said to "grow scar tissue").   The result was
      often a convoluted {patch space} and headaches galore.
  
      There is a classic story of a {tiger team} penetrating a
      secure military computer that illustrates the danger inherent
      in binary patches (or, indeed, any patches that you can't - or
      don't - inspect and examine before installing).   They couldn't
      find any {trap doors} or any way to penetrate security of
      IBM's OS, so they made a site visit to an IBM office
      (remember, these were official military types who were
      purportedly on official business), swiped some IBM stationery,
      and created a fake patch.   The patch was actually the trapdoor
      they needed.   The patch was distributed at about the right
      time for an IBM patch, had official stationery and all
      accompanying documentation, and was dutifully installed.   The
      installation manager very shortly thereafter learned something
      about proper procedures.
  
      5. {Larry Wall}'s "patch" utility, which automatically applies
      a patch to a set of {source code} or other text files.   It
      accepts input in any of the four forms output by the {Unix}
      {diff} utility and uses many helpful {heuristics} to determine
      how to apply them.
  
      Diff and patch are the standard way of producing and applying
      updates to {Unix} files ditributed via {Usenet} and the
      {Internet}, both have been ported to other {operating
      systems}.
  
      See your nearest {GNU archive site}.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1996-06-04)
  
  
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