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Plural of patch

regular plural

The plural of patch is patches.

Forms of patch

Singularpatch /pæt͡ʃ/
Pluralpatches /ˈpæt͡ʃɪz/
Countablecountable

Patches in a sentence

  • His sleeves had patches on the elbows where different fabric had been sewn on to replace material that had worn away.
  • To me, a normal cow is white with black patches, but Sarah's from Texas and most of the cows there have solid brown, black, or red coats.
  • The use of hot patches allows the server to be kept fully up-to-date without any reboot-induced downtime.From the entry hot patch
  • Patches of cropped land and uncropped land were interspersed seemingly at random, but the explanation turned out to be related to crop rotation and irrigation choices.From the entry cropped
  • These best-selling under-eye patches are the perfect stocking stuffer—they're designed to soothe, de-puff, and hydrate your skin.2024 October 9, Hannah Oh, Samantha Jones, “Amazon Has So Many Last-Minute Gifts Under $50 on Sale for October Prime Day”, in Cosmopolitan. From the entry de-puff

Meaning of patch

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
  3. noun A piece of any size, used to repair something for a temporary period only, or that it is temporary because it is not meant to last long or will be removed as soon as a proper repair can be made, which will happen in the near future.

Full definition of patch

Questions about the plural of patch

What is the plural of patch?
The plural of patch is patches.
Is patch countable?
Patch is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: patch (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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