Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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patch

/pæt͡ʃ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms patches patching patched Patchs

  1. noun 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. “His sleeves had patches on the elbows where different fabric had been sewn on to replace material that had worn away.”
  2. noun A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc. “I can't afford to replace the roof, which is what it really needs. I'll have the roofer apply a patch.”
  3. noun 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. “Before you can fix a dam, you have to apply a patch to the hole so that everything can dry off.”
  4. noun A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location, time, size) “The world economy had a rough patch in the 1930s.”
  5. noun (specifically) A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground. “scattered patches of trees or growing corn”
  6. noun A local region of professional responsibility.
  7. noun (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.
  8. noun (medicine) A piece of material used to cover a wound.
  9. verb To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like. “My coat needs patching.”
  10. verb To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on.
  11. verb To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt. “I patched together this quilt.”
  12. verb To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt.
  13. verb To employ a temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system.
  14. verb (generally with the particle "up") To repair or arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner “The truce between the two countries has been patched up.”
  15. verb To fix or improve a computer program without a complete upgrade.
  16. verb To make a quick and possibly temporary change to a program.
  17. noun (archaic) A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.
  18. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

section area blotch spot period of time spell stretch tract beauty spot speckle dapple fleck maculation plot plot of land plot of ground while piece temporary hookup mend darn eyepatch bandage patch up

Etymology

From Middle English patche, of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of earlier Middle English placche (“patch, spot, piece of cloth”), from Old English *plæċċ, *pleċċ (“a spot, mark, patch”), from Proto-West Germanic *plakkju, from Proto-Germanic *plakjō (“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”).

Perhaps borrowed from Italian pazzo or paggio; the form influenced by folk etymological association with patch (Etymology 1).

English and German surname of uncertain origin; perhaps from a nickname related to Peter.

Webster’s 1913

  1. 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.
  2. noun Hence: A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
  3. verb To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.
  4. verb To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.

Etymology [OE. pacche; of uncertain origin, perh. for placche; cf. Prov. E. platch patch, LG. plakk, plakke.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “patch”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “patch” (best matches first).