Patch and Condition

noun

• A small contrasting part of something.
  • usage: "a bald spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice"; "a fleck of red"
  • synonyms: spot, speckle, dapple, fleck, maculation
• A small area of ground covered by specific vegetation.
  • usage: "a bean plot"; "a cabbage patch"; "a briar patch"
  • synonyms: plot, plot of land, plot of ground
• A piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole.
• A period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition.
  • usage: "he was here for a little while"; "I need to rest for a piece"; "a spell of good weather"; "a patch of bad weather"
  • synonyms: while, piece, spell
• A short set of commands to correct a bug in a computer program.
• A connection intended to be used for a limited time.
  • synonyms: temporary hookup
• Sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment. )
  • usage: "her stockings had several mends"
  • synonyms: mend, darn
• A protective cloth covering for an injured eye.
  • synonyms: eyepatch
• A piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body.
  • synonyms: bandage

verb

• To join or unite the pieces of.
  • usage: "patch the skirt"
  • synonyms: piece
• Provide with a patch; also used metaphorically.
  • usage: "The field was patched with snow"
• Mend by putting a patch on.
  • usage: "patch a hole"
  • synonyms: patch up
• Repair by adding pieces.
  • usage: "She pieced the china cup"
  • synonyms: piece

• (n.) Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn.
• (n.) A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
• (n.) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
• (v.t.) 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.
• (v.t.) To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.
• (n.) 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.
• (v.t.) To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.
• (n.) A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
• (n.) A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.
• (n.) A small piece of black silk stuck on the face or neck, to hide a defect or to heighten beauty.
• (v.t.) To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather or the like; as, to patch a coat.

Patch is a masculine given name

• Name Meaning: Form of Peter. A rock
• Name Origin: American

noun

• A state at a particular time.
  • usage: "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"
  • synonyms: status
• An assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else.
  • synonyms: precondition, stipulation
• A mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing.
  • usage: "the human condition"
• Information that should be kept in mind when making a decision.
  • usage: "another consideration is the time it would take"
  • synonyms: circumstance, consideration
• The state of (good) health (especially in the phrases `in condition' or `in shape' or `out of condition' or `out of shape'.
  • synonyms: shape
• An illness, disease, or other medical problem.
  • usage: "a heart condition"; "a skin condition"
• Usually plural. ( a statement of what is required as part of an agreement)
  • usage: "the contract set out the conditions of the lease"; "the terms of the treaty were generous"
  • synonyms: term
• The procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition.
  • synonyms: experimental condition

verb

• Establish a conditioned response.
• Develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control.
  • usage: "Parents must discipline their children"; "Is this dog trained"
  • synonyms: discipline, train, check
• Specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement.
  • usage: "The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life"; "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments"
  • synonyms: stipulate, qualify, specify
• Put into a better state.
  • usage: "he conditions old cars"
• Apply conditioner to in order to make smooth and shiny.
  • usage: "I condition my hair after washing it"

• (n.) Essential quality; property; attribute.
• (n.) Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate.
• (n.) To invest with or limit by, conditions; to burden or qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of.
• (n.) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
• (n.) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
• (n.) Temperament; disposition; character.
• (v.i.) To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
• (n.) A clause in a contract or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of a future uncertain event, which may or may not happen, and on the occurrence or non-occurrence of which, the accomplishment, recission or modification of an obligation or testamentary disposition is made to depend.
• (n.) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college; as, to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study.
• (v.i.) To make terms; to stipulate.
• (n.) That which must exist as the occasion or concomitant of something else; that which is requisite in order that something else should take effect; an essential qualification; stipulation; terms specified.
• (n.) train; acclimate.

(DoD) Those variables of an operational environment or situation in which a unit, system, or individual is expected to operate and may affect performance. See also joint mission-essential tasks.