PATCHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does patched mean? 

• PATCHED (adjective)
  The adjective PATCHED has 2 senses:

1. mended usually clumsily by covering a hole with a patch

2. having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture)

  Familiarity information: PATCHED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PATCHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mended usually clumsily by covering a hole with a patch

Context example:

patched jeans

Similar:

old (of long duration; not new)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture)

Synonyms:

patched; spotted; spotty

Context example:

a black-and-white spotted cow

Similar:

patterned (having patterns (especially colorful patterns))

 Context examples 

Members of the Hh family bind to patched (ptc), thus releasing smoothened (smo) to transduce a signal.

(Hedgehog Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Patched is the sonic hedgehog receptor, a protein with twelve transmembrane domains that represses transcription of genes encoding TGF Beta and WNT family signaling proteins.

(Patched, NCI Thesaurus)

I remember the appearance of his coat, which he patched himself upstairs in his room, and which, before the end, was nothing but patches.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

In the absence of hedgehog, patched represses constitutive smoothened signaling through fused.

(Drosophila Patched Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

The other is the bicycle with the patched Dunlop.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The patched pathway is conserved from fly to vertebrates.

(Patched Homolog 2, NCI Thesaurus)

The muzzle is long, but not pointed, and it has a short, dense coat that comes in solid liver or liver and white, patched, ticked or roan.

(German Shorthaired Pointer, NCI Thesaurus)

It comes in solid black, brown, and white, or in a patched pattern of white with black or brown.

(Canaan Dog, NCI Thesaurus)

The boat itself was crushed and splintered against the schooner’s side as it came inboard; but the wreck was securely lashed, for it could be patched and made whole again.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Still matters were patched up here, and made good there, over and over again; and altogether lasted, I am sure, for a longer time than anybody could have expected.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)