patch

patch is a 5-letter English word with 24 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 24 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
3. noun. A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty.
4. noun. A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
5. noun. Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn.
6. noun. A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
7. noun. A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.
8. transitive verb. To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.
9. transitive verb. To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.
10. transitive verb. To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.
11. transitive verb. 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.
12. noun. a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body

    Synonyms: bandage

13. noun. a protective cloth covering for an injured eye

    Synonyms: eyepatch

14. noun. sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment)

    "her stockings had several mends"

    Synonyms: darn, mend

15. noun. a piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole
16. noun. a connection intended to be used for a limited time
17. noun. a small contrasting part of something

    "a bald spot"

    "a leopard's spots"

    Synonyms: dapple, fleck, maculation, speckle, spot

18. noun. a short set of commands to correct a bug in a computer program
19. noun. a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation

    "a bean plot"

    "a cabbage patch"

    Synonyms: plot

20. noun. 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"

    Synonyms: piece, spell, while

21. verb. repair by adding pieces

    "She pieced the china cup"

    Synonyms: piece

22. verb. mend by putting a patch on

    "patch a hole"

23. verb. to join or unite the pieces of

    "patch the skirt"

    Synonyms: piece

24. verb. provide with a patch; also used metaphorically

    "The field was patched with snow"

Synonyms

bandage, eyepatch, darn, mend, dapple, fleck, maculation, speckle, spot, plot, piece, spell, while

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in patch:

chapt, pacht

Common word forms

patched, patcher, patches, patching, patchable, patchless

Words from these letters

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