patch – English noun declension

English noun forms of patch

Noun: patch
Singularpatch
Pluralpatches

Sample Sentences

  • 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. [1940 November, “Notes and News: Railway Operation Ad Lib”, in Railway Magazine, pages 611–612:]
  • 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. [2012, Bruce Grundy, Martin Hirst, Janine Little, So You Want To Be A Journalist?: Unplugged, →ISBN, page 44:]
  • […] 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. [1980, Noel Parry, Michael Rustin, Carole Satyamurti, Social Work, Welfare & the State, page 101:]
  • Your black patches you wear variously. [1625, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Elder Brother. A Comedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act III, scene v:]
  • ...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. [1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Another London Life”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 169:]
  • 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. [2019 October, Roger Ford, “Power failure highlights specification confusion”, in Modern Railways, page 28:]
  • 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. [1988 November 28, “MIDI: Computers and Music”, in U-M Computing News, volume 3, number 21, The University of Michigan Computing Center, page 11:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English patche, of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of earlier Middle English placche (“patch, spot, piece of cloth”), from Old English *plæċċ, *pleċċ (“a spot, mark, patch”), from Proto-West Germanic *plakkju, from Proto-Germanic *plakjō (“spot, stain”). For the loss of l compare pat from Middle English platten. Germanic cognates would then include Middle English plecke, dialectal English pleck (“plot of ground, patch”), West Frisian plak (“place, spot”), Low German Plakk, Plakke (“spot, piece, patch”), Dutch plek (“spot, place, stain, patch”), Dutch plak (“piece, slab”), Swedish plagg (“garment”), Faroese plagg (“cloth, rag”).
2. Or, possibly a variant of Old French pieche, dialectal variant of piece (“piece”). Compare also Old Occitan petaç (“patch”). See: Middle English Nouns 'pacche', Middle English Nouns 'placche', Middle English Nouns 'plecke', English Nouns 'pleck', Dutch Nouns 'plek', Dutch Nouns 'plak', Swedish Nouns 'plagg', Faroese Nouns 'plagg'.

Verbs referencing "patch"

French Nouns patch, Irish Nouns paiste, Russian Nouns патч, Ukrainian Nouns патч.