PATCHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does patching mean? 

• PATCHING (noun)
  The noun PATCHING has 1 sense:

1. the act of mending a hole in a garment by sewing a patch over it

  Familiarity information: PATCHING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PATCHING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of mending a hole in a garment by sewing a patch over it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("patching" is a kind of...):

fix; fixing; fixture; mend; mending; repair; reparation (the act of putting something in working order again)

Derivation:

patch (mend by putting a patch on)

patch (to join or unite the pieces of)

patch (provide with a patch; also used metaphorically)

 Context examples 

While their main function is pumping blood through the body, they are also involved in ‘patching up’ injuries in the blood vessels.

(Observation of blood vessel cells changing function could lead to early detection of blocked arteries, University of Cambridge)

Ham had been patching up a great pair of waterboots; and I, with little Em'ly by my side, had been reading to them.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She was patching a pair of his trousers, while his lean body was distributed over two chairs, his feet dangling in dilapidated carpet-slippers over the edge of the second chair.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)