Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Mended or repaired with patches; adorned with patches.
- Party-colored; habited or dressed in party-colored clothes, as was formerly the custom with domestic fools or jesters.
- Irregularly variegated in color, as an animal.
- Made of patches: as, a patched quilt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Mended, usually clumsily by covering a hole with a patch.
- adjective Partly covered.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having been
patched . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
patch .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture)
- adjective mended usually clumsily by covering a hole with a patch
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Examples
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He was a little man, in patched overalls; bareheaded, with a cotton shirt open at the throat and down the chest.
Chapter IX 2010
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Absent a comment from Krakauer, we're left to enjoy the many genuine delights of the issue, which include a heartbreaking interview with Jan Arnold, the widow of guide Rob Hall, who perished in the '96 storm and who named his unborn daughter during a final phone call patched through to New Zealand when Hall was caught high on the mountain with no possibility of rescue.
Stephanie Losee: Return to Thin Air — Without Jon Krakauer? 2008
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Then, on other pictures, there were more men in patched sheepskin coats, poor houses roofed with hay.
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From their decks bronzed men in patched and ragged garments looked with astonished eyes upon the desolate scene.
This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States Henrietta Elizabeth 1917
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He was a little man, in patched overalls; bareheaded, with a cotton shirt open at the throat and down the chest.
Chapter IX 1910
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So once I agreed to fly out to Los Angeles and memorize six lines if the editors are wise, they’ll cut three, they concocted me a moniker patched together from their favorite Idol winners — season 7′s David Cook and season 8′s Kris Allen.
I will be on 'The Young and the Restless' Monday: Please keep your expectations low | EW.com 2010
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Afternoon: Hall learns over his walkie-talkie that rescuers cannot reach him and has a call patched through to his wife in New Zealand.
High Risk 2008
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Yesterday morning, Ms. Van Der Mier received a phone call patched into her office, from an anonymous person whose voice was concealed electronically.
The Art Thief Noah Charney 2007
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Because while he was waiting to have the hole patched, which is one way we treat these holes, he was put on a strong blood thinner.
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That's why the Mooselings first feared that perhaps they had already blogged down the wrong alley, when, just yesterday, they received an unexpected direct call patched in from the Bull Moose himself all the way from the Lone Star state.
Archive 2005-08-01 2005
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