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PATCHED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mended usually clumsily by covering a hole with a patch
Example:
patched jeans
Classified under:
Similar:
old (of long duration; not new)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture)
Example:
a black-and-white spotted cow
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
patterned (having patterns (especially colorful patterns))
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb patch
Context examples:
The Pointer, also known as the English Pointer, has a well-muscled, athletic body and a short, sleek coat that comes in primarily white, but may be liver, lemon, black or orange; solid, patched or speckled.
(English Pointer, NCI Thesaurus)
An autologous chronic lymphocytic leukemia cancer vaccine consisting of patient-specific membrane proteins directly extracted from patient autologous tumor cells and incorporated into liposomes along with Interleukin 2 (IL-2) to produce membrane-patched proteoliposomes, with potential immunostimulating and antineoplastic activities.
(Autologous Tumor Cell Proteoliposome Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)
Patched is involved in embryonic development and adult cell growth control.
(Patched, NCI Thesaurus)
Patched associates with smoothened protein to transduce hedgehog signal, leading to activation of wingless, decapentaplegic, and patched.
(Drosophila Patched Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
Doctor Livesey patched it up with plaster and pulled my ears for me into the bargain.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Come, then, and, having exhausted the Palmer, let us see what the Dunlop with the patched cover has to offer us.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There were only three—the jib, foresail, and mainsail; and, patched, shortened, and distorted, they were a ridiculously ill-fitting suit for so trim a craft as the Ghost.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Holmes struck a match and held it to the back wheel, and I heard him chuckle as the light fell upon a patched Dunlop tire.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
