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patch

noun as in piece, spot, area

noun as in piece applied to cover a gap or lack

verb as in fix, mend

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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.

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On this page you'll find 90 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to patch, such as: bit, chunk, ground, land, lot, and plot.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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