Phrase Hound found 32 phrases and 24 compound words that contain patches. The most common are listed below. Open patches in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 32
- Security patches
- purple patchesplural of purple patch: A period of excellent performance where nearly everything seems to go right, contrasting with a lower general level of performance.
- garbage patchesplural of garbage patch: A piece of land used for dumping rubbish.
- bald patchesplural of bald patch: An area on the head which, due to hair loss, has little or no hair.
- nicotine patchesplural of nicotine patch: An adhesive patch, affixed to the skin, that slowly diffuses nicotine into the bloodstream; used by people who are trying to quit smoking
- brood patchesplural of brood patch: A patch of featherless skin that is visible on the underside of birds during the nesting season, helping them to transfer heat to their eggs when incubating.
- transdermal patchesplural of transdermal patch: A plastic patch that has been impregnated with medication. The patch is applied to the skin and delivers a steady dose of medication over time.
- Peyer's patchesplural of Peyer's patch: A patch of lymphoid tissue or lymphoid nodules on the walls of the ileal-small intestine.
- bad patchesplural of bad patch: A difficult or challenging time.
- cold patchesplural of cold patch: A mass of semisolid asphalt concrete tamped into potholes in a paved surface to provide a temporary repair, typically used in cold winter conditions.
- cross-patchesplural of cross-patch: A grumpy, bad-tempered or irascible person.
- eye patchesplural of eye patch: An opaque patch worn so as to cover an injured or infected eye or an eye socket in order to protect or conceal it, or to treat amblyopia in children.
- hot patchesplural of hot patch: A patch (software fix) which is applied to a system while it is running, without the need to reboot the system to complete the patching process.
- oil patchesplural of oil patch: A patch or puddle of oil.
- patches overthird-person singular simple present indicative of patch over: To take over and absorb (a smaller motorcycle club).
- patches togetherthird-person singular simple present indicative of patch together: To repair (something), especially in an improvised manner or with insufficient equipment.
- patches upthird-person singular simple present indicative of patch up: The act of patching or repairing.
- soul patchesplural of soul patch: A narrow beard descending from the lower lip, above the chin.
- surface patchesplural of surface patch: A homeomorphism from a local neighborhood around a point on a topological n-manifold in a Banach space to an n-dimensional Banach space (typically a subspace of the space the manifold is embedded in).
- truck patchesplural of truck patch: A small area devoted to the production of vegetables usually for domestic use.
- yellow patchesplural of yellow patch: A disease affecting several varieties of grasses, including bentgrasses, annual bluegrass, some perennial ryegrass and Kentucky bluegrass, which results in the development of yellow or brown rings.
- herald patchesplural of herald patch: A red scaly area of skin that indicates the onset of pityriasis rosea.
- rough patchesplural of rough patch: A difficult or embattling period of one's life.
- monkey patchesplural of monkey patch: A patch which alters the behaviour of a program by forcibly overriding aspects of the original code at runtime.
- bare patchesplural of bare patch: An area of exposed dirt or ground on which there are no plants growing.
Compound words 24
- dispatchesplural of dispatch: To send (a shipment) with promptness.
- despatchesplural of despatch: To send (a shipment) with promptness.
- cryptopatchesplural of cryptopatch: A small aggregate of lymphoid cells found in the intestinal lamina propria.
- agropatchesplural of agropatch: A patch of Agrobacterium used in agroinfiltration
- autopatchesplural of autopatch: A device that allows users to make telephone calls via a repeater
- backpatchesthird-person singular simple present indicative of backpatch: To update (partially compiled code) with jump addresses that were previously left as placeholders because they had not yet been encountered in the source code.
- cornpatchesplural of cornpatch: A patch of corn.
- crosspatchesplural of crosspatch: A grumpy, bad-tempered or irascible person.
- downpatchesthird-person singular simple present indicative of downpatch: To revert (a piece of software, especially a video game) to a former version.
- eyepatchesplural of eyepatch: An opaque patch worn so as to cover an injured or infected eye or an eye socket in order to protect or conceal it, or to treat amblyopia in children.