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What (who) is patch - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Patches; The Patch; Patch (disambiguation); Patches (song)
patch
(patches, patching, patched)
1.
A patch on a surface is a part of it which is different in appearance from the area around it.
...the bald patch on the top of his head...
There was a small patch of blue in the grey clouds.
N-COUNT: usu with supp
2.
A patch of land is a small area of land where a particular plant or crop grows.
...a patch of land covered in forest.
...the little vegetable patch in her backyard.
N-COUNT: with supp, oft N of n
3.
A patch is a piece of material which you use to cover a hole in something.
...jackets with patches on the elbows.
N-COUNT
4.
A patch is a small piece of material which you wear to cover an injured eye.
She went to the hospital and found him lying down with a patch over his eye.
N-COUNT
see also eye patch
5.
If you patch something that has a hole in it, you mend it by fastening a patch over the hole.
He and Walker patched the barn roof...
...their patched clothes.
VERB: V n, V-ed
6.
A patch is a piece of computer program code written as a temporary solution for dealing with a virus in computer software and distributed by the makers of the original program. (COMPUTING)
Older machines will need a software patch to be loaded to correct the date.
N-COUNT
7.
If you have or go through a bad patch or a rough patch, you have a lot of problems for a time. (mainly BRIT)
His marriage was going through a bad patch...
PHRASE: N inflects
8.
If you say that someone or something is not a patch on another person or thing, you mean that they are not as good as that person or thing. (BRIT INFORMAL)
Handsome, she thought, but not a patch on Alex.
PHRASE: v-link PHR, PHR n
patch
<software> 1. A temporary addition to a piece of code, usually
as a quick-and-dirty remedy to an existing bug or
misfeature. A patch may or may not work, and may or may not
eventually be incorporated permanently into the program.
Distinguished from a diff or mod by the fact that a patch
is generated by more primitive means than the rest of the
program; the classical examples are instructions modified by
using the front panel switches, and changes made directly to
the binary executable of a program originally written in an
HLL. Compare one-line fix.
2. To insert a patch into a piece of code.
3. [in the Unix world ] A diff.
4. A set of modifications to binaries to be applied by a
patching program. IBM systems often receive updates to the
operating system in the form of absolute hexadecimal
patches. If you have modified your OS, you have to
disassemble these back to the source code. The patches
might later be corrected by other patches on top of them
(patches were said to "grow scar tissue"). The result was
often a convoluted patch space and headaches galore.
There is a classic story of a tiger team penetrating a
secure military computer that illustrates the danger inherent
in binary patches (or, indeed, any patches that you can't - or
don't - inspect and examine before installing). They couldn't
find any trap doors or any way to penetrate security of
IBM's OS, so they made a site visit to an IBM office
(remember, these were official military types who were
purportedly on official business), swiped some IBM stationery,
and created a fake patch. The patch was actually the trapdoor
they needed. The patch was distributed at about the right
time for an IBM patch, had official stationery and all
accompanying documentation, and was dutifully installed. The
installation manager very shortly thereafter learned something
about proper procedures.
5. Larry Wall's "patch" utility program, which
automatically applies a patch to a set of source code or
other text files. Patch accepts input in any of the four
forms output by the Unix diff utility. When the files
being patched are not identical to those on which the diffs
were based, patch uses heuristics to determine how to
proceed.
Diff and patch are the standard way of producing and applying
updates under Unix. Both have been ported to other
operating systems.
patch/patch.html">Patch Home (http://gnu.org/software/patch/patch.html).
[Jargon File ]
(2005-05-16)
Patch
·noun A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.
II. Patch ·vt To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.
III. Patch ·noun A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
IV. Patch ·noun A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, ·etc.
V. Patch ·vt To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.
VI. Patch ·noun A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
VII. Patch ·noun A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty.
VIII. Patch ·vt To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.
IX. Patch ·noun Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn.
X. Patch ·vt To make of pieces or patches; to repair as with patches; to arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner;
- generally with up; as, to patch up a truce.
XI. Patch ·noun A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, ·esp. upon an old garment to cover a hole.
Examples of use of patch
1. Patch by patch, arrangement by arrangement, reinforcement by reinforcement.
2. They‘re forced to resort to a process of "patch, patch, patch and nothing ever gets repaired," she said.
3. That led to a series of quick fixes done badly, sometimes barbarically, a patch upon a patch.
4. "Not being on the patch and getting pregnant is more dangerous than the patch itself." How do you apply it?
5. The finding comes from one of two studies comparing the patch and pill, said Ortho Women‘s Health & Urology, maker of the once–a–week patch.