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/pæt͡ʃ/ · noun
A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole..
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.
Use patch when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Patch means A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole..
Common synonyms include beauty spot, section, area, blotch.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
His sleeves had patches on the elbows where different fabric had been sewn on to replace material that had worn away.
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