Section and Patch

noun

• A self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical. )
  • usage: "he always turns first to the business section"; "the history of this work is discussed in the next section"
  • synonyms: subdivision
• A very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope.
  • usage: "sections from the left ventricle showed diseased tissue"
• A distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people.
  • usage: "no section of the nation is more ardent than the South"; "there are three synagogues in the Jewish section"
• One of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object.
  • usage: "a section of a fishing rod"; "metal sections were used below ground"; "finished the final segment of the road"
  • synonyms: segment
• A small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon.
• One of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole.
  • usage: "the written part of the exam"; "the finance section of the company"; "the BBC's engineering division"
  • synonyms: part, division
• A land unit equal to 1 square mile.
• Geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid.
  • synonyms: plane section
• A small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately.
  • usage: "a graduate student taught sections for the professor's lecture course"
  • synonyms: discussion section
• A division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class.
• A small army unit usually having a special function.
• A specialized division of a large organization.
  • usage: "you'll find it in the hardware department"; "she got a job in the historical section of the Treasury"
  • synonyms: department
• A segment of a citrus fruit.
  • usage: "he ate a section of the orange"
• The cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation.
  • synonyms: incision, surgical incision

verb

• Divide into segments.
  • usage: "segment an orange"; "segment a compound word"
  • synonyms: segment

• (n.) A distinct part or portion of a book or writing; a subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing; a paragraph; an article; hence, the character /, often used to denote such a division.
• (n.) A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; -- often indicated by the sign /.
• (n.) A distinct part of a country or people, community, class or the like; a part of a territory separated by geographical lines or of a people considered as distinct.
• (n.) The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet or to two superficies which meet or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point.
• (n.) A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase.
• (n.) The act of cutting or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.
• (n.) One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and preemption laws.
• (n.) A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice.
• (n.) The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; depiction of what is beyond a plane passing through or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile.

Identifies the third highest level in the formal City organization in which a specific activity is carried out; a division may consist of several' Section's.

(DoD) An area in a warehouse extending from one wall to the next; usually the largest subdivision of one floor.
(DoD) A tactical unit of the Army and Marine Corps. A section is smaller than a platoon and larger than a squad. In some organizations the section, rather than the squad, is the basic tactical unit.
(DoD) A subdivision of an office, installation, territory, works, or organization; especially a major subdivision of a staff.
(DoD) As applied to ships or naval aircraft, a tactical subdivision of a division. It is normally one-half of a division in the case of ships, and two aircraft in the case of aircraft.

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