Slice and Patch

noun

• A share of something.
  • usage: "a slice of the company's revenue"
  • synonyms: piece
• A serving that has been cut from a larger portion.
  • usage: "a piece of pie"; "a slice of bread"
  • synonyms: piece
• A wound made by cutting.
  • usage: "he put a bandage over the cut"
  • synonyms: cut, gash, slash
• A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer.
  • usage: "he took lessons to cure his slicing"
  • synonyms: fade, slicing
• A thin flat piece cut off of some object.
• A spatula for spreading paint or ink.

verb

• Make a clean cut through.
  • usage: "slit her throat"
  • synonyms: slit
• Hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels in a different direction.
• Cut into slices.
  • usage: "Slice the salami, please"
  • synonyms: slice up
• Hit a ball so that it causes a backspin. .

• (v.t.) To hit (the ball) so that the face of the club draws across the face of the ball and deflects it.
• (v.t.) A removable sliding bottom to galley.
• (v.t.) One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
• (v.t.) A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
• (v.t.) To cut into parts; to divide.
• (v.t.) A salver, platter or tray.
• (v.t.) To clear by means of a slice bar, as a fire or the grate bars of a furnace.
• (v.t.) To cut into thin pieces or to cut off a thin, broad piece from.
• (v.t.) A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.
• (v.t.) A broad, thin piece of plaster.
• (v.t.) That which is thin and broad, like a slice.
• (v.t.) A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.

(DoD) An average logistic planning factor used to obtain estimates of requirements for personnel and materiel. (e.g., a personnel slice generally consists of the total strength of the stated basic combatant elements, plus its proportionate share of all supporting and higher headquarters personnel.)

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