patch
153
2.7
- noun
- /pætʃ/
:
mancha
- We discovered a small patch of wild strawberries growing by the trail.
- a patch of ground
- a patch of green
- dark patches
You'll always see me with green patches in the morning, always.
- You'll always see me with green patches in the morning, always.
- You wake up knee high on the grass patch in the backyard.
- you know. Curiously, the contact patch actually isn't even that bad.
- Whether you go to a pumpkin patch, a haunted house, you know.
Examples
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Nearby, a dark soil patch indicates a trench between what appears to be more round postholes.
Academic text (2011) -
You wake up knee high on the grass patch in the backyard.
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And you could spend an hour just looking at that tiny patch, that wonder.
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But after that, I ran into patches of forest, and it was easier going.
Fiction book (1990) -
We may have to buy a little patch of sod there.
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The car was there, parked just off the road in a patch of young cedars.
Fiction book (1991) -
I tromped through the pumpkin patch.
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The state also combined many small patches of land into more farmable fields.
Academic text (2011) -
Not even ants moved in the ragged patches of grass around the giant shade sycamores.
Fiction book (1991) -
The path peters out into a rutted, sandy patch of weeds and empties us into the grove.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
297
1.0
A small round mark on a surface, for example on a card or dice
81
1.9
A small piece of land used to grow plants or vegetables
24
4.3
A very small spot that stands out on a surface
11
3.0
A small piece of ground for growing plants or building on
3
2.8
An area of land used for something, like a garden or park
3
3.4
A small spot of a different color on a surface
2
2.0
A small area in a garden where people grow vegetables
1
2.3
A small piece of land used for growing plants
1
8.4
A small patch of a different color on something
A small spot that looks different from its background
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A small sticky medicine you put on your skin to replace the female hormone estradiol
- Specialized
A test that puts small sticky pads with substances on skin to check for allergy
- Specialized
A small area of tissue in the small intestine that helps the body fight germs
- Specialized
A sticky pad put on the skin that sends medicine into the blood slowly
How Large
Surface Forms
Etymology
Patch originally meant a small 'piece' of cloth, and people began to use it for any small area that looks different from what is around it. That's why we talk about a patch of color, grass, or ice as a small, separate spot.