patch someone/something up

patch | American Dictionary

patch
noun[ C ]
us/pætʃ/

patchnoun[C] (AREA)

a small part of a surface that is different in some way from the area around it:
Watch for patches of ice on the road.
We have a small vegetable patch (= area for growing vegetables).

patchnoun[C] (PIECE OF MATERIAL)

a piece of material put over a damaged area or hole to repair, strengthen, or cover it:
His old jeans are covered with patches.

patch

verb[ T ]us/pætʃ/
to patch a tire

patch | Business English

patch
noun[ C ]
uk /pætʃ/us
IT
a small computer program that can repair a problem with software:
You can download a patch to fix the problem.
 go through/hit a bad/difficult/rough patch informal
to experience a lot of problems in a short period of time:
Economically, the country is going through a bad patch.
The company hit a rough patch last year, which included its first quarterly loss since going public.

Examples of patch

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It is recognized that this monocusp does not last for very long, in that it tends to adhere to the outflow patch.
This means that pollen transferred within a patch contributes to geitonogamous self-pollination.
In addition, all seven were in the peripheral half of our patch of retina.
Therefore, white-vented mynas probably preferred the green patches among residential buildings, as this may have allowed them to more efficiently exploit ephemeral anthropogenic food sources.
While we do not explicitly model any benefits associated with more livestock patches, it is reasonable to assume they would exist.
This problem is compounded by the presence, within the ranch, of patches of thicket harbouring untreated populations of tsetse.
Two-dimensional singular surfaces generated by different sets of four constraint equations intersect at many onedimensional curves that divide the surfaces into many two-dimensional patches.
This requires natural enemies to eliminate sparsely distributed patches of prey, so that prey spatial distribution is very relevant to the success of biological control.
These were determined using a circular patch of drifting sinusoidal grating of modest contrast.
In this case, the intense perturbation of the upper boundary favours the generation of downstream patches of vortices travelling with high phase velocity.
The repair consisted of double patch closure of the septal defect, reconstruction of two atrioventricular orifices, and relief of pulmonary stenosis at all levels.
The angiosarcoma, due to its invasive nature, required extensive resection, after which pericardial patches were needed to reconstruct the right atrium and the septum.
These results arose from patches that were unforeseen.
Stenoses of the branches of the pulmonary arteries were enlarged with a pericardial patch in four patients.
In such animals, all the patches appear evenly stained after monocular enucleation.
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