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darn
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /d??n/
- (New England) IPA(key): /da?n/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??n/
- Rhymes: -??(?)n
Etymology 1
A minced oath of damn.
Adjective
darn (not comparable)
- (euphemistic) Damn.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:damned
Derived terms
- darn tootin'
Translations
Adverb
darn (not comparable)
- (degree, euphemistic) Damned.
Interjection
darn
- (euphemistic) Damn.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:dammit
Derived terms
- darn tootin'
Translations
Verb
darn (third-person singular simple present darns, present participle darning, simple past and past participle darned)
- (transitive) Euphemism of damn.
Synonyms
- dang
- damn
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English dernen (“to keep secret, hide, conceal (a hole)”), from Old English diernan (“to hide, conceal”), from dyrne, dierne (“secret”), from Proto-West Germanic *darn? (“hidden, secret”).
Verb
darn (third-person singular simple present darns, present participle darning, simple past and past participle darned)
- (transitive, sewing) To repair by stitching with thread or yarn, particularly by using a needle to construct a weave across a damaged area of fabric.
- I need to darn these socks again.
- c. 1703-1720, Jonathan Swift, An Essay on the Fates of Clergymen
- He spent every day ten hours in his closet, in darning his stockings.
Usage notes
Predominantly used to described repairs to stockings or socks. The frequency of references to both follows their general prominence with references to stockings being more historically prominent and references to socks being more recently prominent.
Related terms
- darning needle
Translations
Noun
darn (plural darns)
- A place mended by darning.
Further reading
- Darning on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- -andr-, DNAR, DNRA, Nard, RAND, Rand, andr-, nard, rDNA, rand, rdna
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patch
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pæt?/
- Rhymes: -æt?
Etymology 1
From Middle English patche, pacche, of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of earlier Middle English placche (“patch, spot, piece of cloth”), from Old English *plæ??, *ple?? (“a spot, mark, patch”), from Proto-Germanic *plakj? (“spot, stain”). For the loss of l compare pat from Middle English platten. Germanic cognates would then include Middle English plecke, dialectal English pleck (“plot of ground, patch”), West Frisian plak (“place, spot”), Low German Plakk, Plakke (“spot, piece, patch”), Dutch plek (“spot, place, stain, patch”), Dutch plak (“piece, slab”), Swedish plagg (“garment”), Faroese plagg (“cloth, rag”).
Or, possibly a variant of Old French pieche, dialectal variant of piece (“piece”). Compare also Old Occitan petaç (“patch”).
Noun
patch (plural patches)
- 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.
- A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
- A piece of any size, used to repair something for a temporary period only, or that it is temporary because it is not meant to last long or will be removed as soon as a proper repair can be made, which will happen in the near future.
- A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location, time, size)
- (specifically) A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground.
- A local region of professional responsibility.
- 1980, Noel Parry, Michael Rustin, Carole Satyamurti, Social Work, Welfare & the State (page 101)
- […] formed a contact with a man, who was the secretary of the tenants' association of a small housing estate in the social worker's patch.
- 1980, Noel Parry, Michael Rustin, Carole Satyamurti, Social Work, Welfare & the State (page 101)
- (historical) A small piece of black silk stuck on the face or neck to heighten beauty by contrast, worn by ladies in the 17th and 18th centuries; an imitation beauty mark.
- Your black patches you wear variously.
- (medicine) A piece of material used to cover a wound.
- (medicine) An adhesive piece of material, impregnated with a drug, which is worn on the skin, the drug being slowly absorbed over a period of time.
- (medicine) A cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch.
- A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
- (computing) A patch file, a file that describes changes to be made to a computer file or files, usually changes made to a computer program that fix a programming bug.
- (firearms) A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.
- (firearms) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
- (often patch cable, patch cord, etc.; see also patch panel) A cable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment.
- A sound setting for a musical synthesizer (originally selected by means of a patch cable).
- (printing, historical) An overlay used to obtain a stronger impression.
Synonyms
- (piece of black silk): beauty spot
- (a small, distinct part of something larger): section, area, blotch, spot, period of time, spell, stretch
- (a small area, plot of land, or piece of ground): tract
- (computing: file describing changes): diff file
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
patch (third-person singular simple present patches, present participle patching, simple past and past participle patched)
- To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like
- To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on.
- To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt.
- To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt.
- To employ a temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system.
- 2003, The Matrix Revolutions, Scene: Starting the Logos, 00:43:09 - 00:43:32
- [the control panel of hovercraft The Logos has lit up after being jumped by The Hammer]
Sparky: She lives again.
Crew member of The Hammer via radio: You want us to patch an uplink to reload the software, Sparky?
Sparky: Yeah, that'd be swell. And can you clean the windshield while you're at it?
- [the control panel of hovercraft The Logos has lit up after being jumped by The Hammer]
- 2003, The Matrix Revolutions, Scene: Starting the Logos, 00:43:09 - 00:43:32
- (generally with the particle "up") To repair or arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner
- (computing) To make the changes a patch describes; to apply a patch to the files in question. Hence:
- To fix or improve a computer program without a complete upgrade.
- To make a quick and possibly temporary change to a program.
- To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:repair
Translations
See also
- diff
- diff file
References
Etymology 2
Perhaps borrowed from Italian pazzo or paggio; the form influenced by folk etymological association with patch (Etymology 1).
Noun
patch (plural patches)
- (archaic) A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.
- c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II scene v[1]:
- Shylock:
- The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder,
- Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day
- More than the wild-cat; […]
- c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III scene ii[2]:
- Caliban: What a pied ninny's this! Thou scurvy patch! […]
- c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II scene v[1]:
Derived terms
- crosspatch
Further reading
- patch in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- patch in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- patch at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- chapt, p'tcha
Czech
Etymology
From English patch.
Noun
patch m
- (informal) patch (file that describes changes to be made to a computer file or files)
- Synonym: záplata
French
Etymology
From English patch.
Noun
patch f (plural patchs)
- (computing) patch (piece of code used to fix a bug)
Yola
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
patch
- a sand bank
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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