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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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Dictionary Results for patch: |
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
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" [syn: 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" [syn: 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" [syn: 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 [syn:
temporary hookup, patch]
7: sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a
garment); "her stockings had several mends" [syn: mend,
patch, darn]
8: a protective cloth covering for an injured eye [syn:
eyepatch, patch]
9: a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured
part of the body [syn: 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" [syn: patch,
patch up]
4: repair by adding pieces; "She pieced the china cup" [syn:
piece, patch]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Patch \Patch\ (p[a^]ch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Patched
(p[a^]cht); 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.
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2. To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to
repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.
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3. To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.
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Ladies who patched both sides of their faces.
--Spectator.
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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. "If you'll patch a quarrel."
--Shak.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
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.
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Patches set upon a little breach. --Shak.
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2. Hence: A small piece of anything used to repair a breach;
as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
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3. A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to
hide a defect, or to heighten beauty.
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Your black patches you wear variously. --Beau. & Fl.
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4. (Gun.) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as
wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
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5. Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of
ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or
growing corn.
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Employed about this patch of ground. --Bunyan.
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6. (Mil.) A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the
effect of dispart, in sighting.
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7. A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool. [Obs. or
Colloq.] "Thou scurvy patch." --Shak.
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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.
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4. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) |
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 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.
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5. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) |
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 program, which
automatically applies a patch to a set of source code or
other text files. Patch accepts input in any of the four
forms output by the Unix diff utility. When the files
being patched are not identical to those on which the diffs
were based, patch uses heuristics to determine how to
proceed.
Diff and patch are the standard way of producing and applying
updates under Unix. Both have been ported to other
operating systems.
<Patch Home>.
[Jargon File]
(2005-05-16)
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