Patch and Phase

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

• Any distinct time period in a sequence of events.
  • usage: "we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected"
  • synonyms: stage
• Physical chemistry. ( a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary)
  • usage: "the reaction occurs in the liquid phase of the system"
  • synonyms: form
• A particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle.
  • synonyms: phase angle
• Astronomy) the particular appearance of a body's state of illumination (especially one of the recurring shapes of the part of Earth's moon that is illuminated by the sun. ()
  • usage: "the full phase of the moon"

verb

• Arrange in phases or stages.
  • usage: "phase a withdrawal"
• Adjust so as to be in a synchronized condition.
  • usage: "he phased the intake with the output of the machine"

• (n.) In certain birds and mammals, one of two or more color variations characteristic of the species, but independent of the ordinary seasonal and sexual differences, and often also of age. Some of the herons which appear in white and colored phases, and certain squirrels which are sometimes uniformly blackish instead of the usual coloration, furnish examples. Color phases occur also in other animals, notably in butterflies.
• (v.t.) To disturb the composure of; to disconcert; to nonplus.
• (n.) The relation at any instant of a periodically varying electric magnitude, as electro-motive force, a current, etc., to its initial value as expressed in factorial parts of the complete cycle. It is usually expressed in angular measure, the cycle beb four right angles or 360¡. Such periodic variations are generally well represented by sine curves; and phase relations are shown by the relative positions of the crests and hollows of such curves. Magnitudes which have the same phase are said to be in phase.
• (n.) A homogenous, physically distinct portion of matter in a system not homogeneous; as, the three phases, ice, water, and aqueous vapor. A phase may be either a single chemical substance or a mixture, as of gases.
• (n.) A particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form of enlightened disk; as, the phases of the moon or planets. See Illust. under Moon.
• (n.) That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.
• (n.) Any appearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view; as, the problem has many phases.
• (n.) Any one point or portion in a recurring series of changes, as in the changes of motion of one of the particles constituting a wave or vibration; one portion of a series of such changes, in distinction from a contrasted portion, as the portion on one side of a position of equilibrium, in contrast with that on the opposite side.

(DoD) In joint operation planning, a definitive stage of an operation or campaign during which a large portion of the forces and capabilities are involved in similar or mutually supporting activities for a common purpose.