Word Meanings - PATCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore. 5. Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn. Employed about this

Additional info about word: PATCH

A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore. 5. Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn. Employed about this patch of ground. Bunyan. (more info) 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. Patches set upon a little breach. Shak. 2. Hence: A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc. 3. A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty. Your black patches you wear variously. Beau. & Fl.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PATCH)

• Bolster
• Support
• prop
• help
• sustain
• subsidize
• patch
• tinker
• buoy
• Botch
• Patch
• cobble
• blunder
• clump
• disconcert
• spoil
• jumble
• mess
• bungle
• mar
• blacksmith
• Cobble
• botch
• clout
• Plaster
• Palliate
• ramp
• bolster
• Tract
• District
• quarter
• region
• piece

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PATCH)

• Drop
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• discontinue
• oppose
• discourage
• weaken
• exhaust
• thwart
• discountenance
• disfavor
• subvert
• suppress

Related words: (words related to PATCH)

• SUSTAIN
  F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• TINKER
  A small mortar on the end of a staff. A young mackerel about two years old. The chub mackerel. The silversides. A skate. (more info) his trade is to beat a kettle, or because in his work he makes a 1. A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• JUMBLEMENT
  Confused mixture.
• TRACTORATION
  See PERKINISM
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• SUSTAINABLE
  Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.
• DISCONTINUE
  To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
• TINKERSHIRE; TINKLE
  The common guillemot.
• BOTCH
  1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton. 2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. 3. Work done in a bungling
• TRACTITE
  A Tractarian.
• BUNGLER
  A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.
• BLUNDERHEAD
  A stupid, blundering fellow.
• QUARTER ROUND
  An ovolo.
• BOLSTERER
  A supporter.
• SUPPORTFUL
  Abounding with support. Chapman.
• EXHAUSTION
  An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications
• BOTCHERY
  A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.
• BLUNDERER
  One who is apt to blunder.
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• EMPLASTER
  See WISEMAN (more info) plaster or salve, fr. Gr.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• DETRACTIVE
  1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.
• OVERTHWARTLY
  In an overthwart manner;across; also, perversely. Peacham.
• PHOTIC REGION
  The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light.
• REDISTRICT
  To divide into new districts.
• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.