Tom küçükken hantaldı ve sık sık düşerdi. Tüm pantolonlarının diz yamaları olurdu.
- When Tom was little he was clumsy and would fall often. All his pants would have knee patches.
Nehrin yakınındaki bitki örtüsünün sadece birkaç yaması vardı.
- There were only a few patches of vegetation near the river.
Annem pantolonumu yamamak zorunda kaldı.
- My mother had to patch my pants.
Tom gözlerinden birinin üzerine bir plaster takıyordu.
- Tom was wearing a patch over one of his eyes.
Tom'un saçında bir parça gri var.
- Tom has a patch of gray in his hair.
(esp. in radio and telephone communications) to connect or hook up (circuits, programs, conversations, etc.) (often fol. by through, into, etc.): The radio show was patched through to the ship. Patch me through to the mainland.
The world economy had a rough patch in the 1930s.
To make a quick and possibly temporary change to a program.
I'll need to patch the preamp output to the mixer.
You need to patch things up with your sister after that horrible argument.
I needed to patch up my trousers after ripping them on the brambles.
The vain man grew his remaining hair long and twirled it in a spiral to try to cover his growing bald patch, which looked ridiculous when ever it unspiralled, which was always.
I do not want to spend long in examining the arguments for this general deprecation of sense-perception or the intellectual motives for denying all credentials to sense-perception in order to enhance those of calculation, demonstration or religious faith. I want to get quickly to the much thornier briar-patch, the place, namely, where scientific accounts of perception seem to issue in the consequential doctrine that observers, including the physiologists and psychologists themselves, never perceive what they naïvely suppose themselves to perceive.
The new model is not a patch on the original version.
The England team hit a purple patch just after half-time, where they scored 3 goals in 10 minutes, but in the end they were lucky to escape with a 3-3 draw.
... to go from one patch of food to a different one, ...