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patched

/pach/US // pætʃ //UK // (pætʃ) //

补丁,打补丁的,补丁的,有补丁的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : a small piece of material used to mend a tear or break, to cover a hole, or to strengthen a weak place: patches at the elbows of a sports jacket.
    • : a piece of material used to cover or protect a wound, an injured part, etc.: a patch over the eye.
    • : Also called skin patch, trans·der·mal patch . an adhesive patch that applies to the skin and gradually delivers drugs or medication to the user: using a nicotine patch to try to quit smoking.
    • : any of the pieces of cloth sewed together to form patchwork.
    • : a small piece, scrap, or area of anything: a patch of ice on the road.
    • : a piece or tract of land; plot.
    • : a small field, plot, or garden, especially one in which a specific type of plant grows or is cultivated: a cabbage patch; a bean patch.
    • : beauty spot.
    • : Military. a cloth emblem worn on the upper uniform sleeve to identify the military unit of the wearer.
    • : a small organizational or affiliational emblem of cloth sewn to one's jacket, shirt, cap, etc.
    • : a connection or hookup, as between radio circuits or telephone lines: The patch allowed shut-ins to hear the game by telephone.
    • : a period of time characterized by some quality: he was going through a rough patch.
    • : Computers. a small piece of code designed to be inserted into an executable program in order to fix errors in, or update the program or its supporting data.
v.有主动词 verb
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    • : to mend, cover, or strengthen with or as if with a patch or patches.
    • : to repair or restore, especially in a hasty or makeshift way.
    • : to make by joining patches or pieces together: to patch a quilt.
    • : to settle or smooth over: They patched up their quarrel before the company arrived.
    • : to connect or hook up: The radio show was patched through to the ship. Patch me through to the mainland.
v.无主动词 verb
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    • : to make a connection between radio circuits, telephone lines, etc.: We patched into the ship-to-shore conversation.

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Examples

  • In higher-latitude regions, such as the Tasman Sea, relief tended to be much closer, within a few tens of kilometers of the overheated patch, the researchers found.

  • The officers’ uniforms bear a large patch that says “police,” but they aren’t police.

  • Microraptor’s shorter feathers appear in just a small patch on one of the dinosaur’s four wings — suggesting that the dinosaur molted sequentially, too, bird ecologist Yosef Kiat at the University of Haifa in Israel and colleagues report.

  • Other times, they arranged patches of spikes in different directions.

  • Broken pipes and pumps are fixed in patches when money comes through from both federal governments or via the North American Development Bank.

  • Kocurek now works 12-hour shifts as a night watchman guarding the entrance to a drilling patch.

  • Annie Leibovitz had hit a pretty rough patch in life by 2009.

  • But the illusions of peace and tranquility soon crumble around them like a patch of freshly laid snow.

  • There was a patch of congealed blood behind his head: “Except for the blood…the dead man looked immaculate.”

  • A powder-blue blazer with a patch reading “All-Time All-American” hung in a clear plastic bag from the closet doorknob.

  • A few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.

  • In a minute Bruce was back with his hat full of water from the creek that whimpered just beyond the willow patch.

  • The patch of soft green that I knew for the cottonwoods Rutter had spoken of drew my roving gaze whether I would or no.

  • A patch of light fell clear on the side of the trap, and on Longcluse's ungloved hand as he leaned on it.

  • The male Black Redstart has also a white patch on the wing caused by the pale, nearly white, margins of the feathers.