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Noun:

• A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
• An adhesive piece of material, impregnated with a drug, which is worn on the skin; the drug being slowly absorbed over a period of time.
• A period of time.
• 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.
• A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
• archaic A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.
• A small area, a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn.
• A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
• A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty.
• A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.
• computing A file describing changes made to a computer file or files, usually changes made to a computer program that fix a programming bug. A patch file, a file used for input to a patch program.
• figuratively A fit.
• (''Often patch cable, patch cord etc.; see also patch panel'') A cable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment.

Proper noun:

• computing The program that updates old versions of files, based on a record of differences with the newer versions.

Verb:

• computing To make the changes a patch describes; to apply a patch to the files in question. Hence:
• To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.
• To arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner; ? generally with up; as, to patch up a truce.
• To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable.
• To make of pieces or patches like a quilt.
• To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.
• To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces fastened on.
• To repair as with patches.
• To repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.