open vs patch

open

verb
  • To move to a position preventing electricity from flowing. 

  • To move to a position allowing fluid to flow. 

  • To bring up, broach. 

  • To make accessible to customers or clients. 

  • To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker. 

  • To spread; to expand into an open or loose position. 

  • To become open. 

  • To make something accessible or allow for passage by moving from a shut position. 

  • To enter upon, begin. 

  • To turn on; to switch on. 

  • To make (an open space, etc.) by clearing away an obstacle or obstacles, in order to allow for passage, access, or visibility. 

  • To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen. 

  • To make (a bed) ready for a patient by folding back the bedcovers. 

  • To start (a campaign). 

  • To begin conducting business. 

  • To reveal one's hand. 

  • To load into memory for viewing or editing. 

noun
  • Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location. 

  • Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view. 

  • The act of something being opened, such as an e-mail message. 

  • A defect in an electrical circuit preventing current from flowing. 

  • A sports event in which anybody can compete. 

adj
  • Not fulfilled. 

  • Made public, usable with a free licence and without proprietary components. 

  • Having a free variable. 

  • Having component words separated by spaces, as opposed to being joined together or hyphenated; for example, time slot as opposed to timeslot or time-slot. 

  • Public 

  • Mild (of the weather); free from frost or snow. 

  • With open access, of open science, or both. 

  • Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character. 

  • Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body. 

  • In current use; mapped to part of memory. 

  • Of a note, played without pressing the string against the fingerboard. 

  • Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business. 

  • Able to have something pass through or along it. 

  • not covered, showing what is inside 

  • To be in a position preventing electricity from flowing. 

  • Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure. 

  • Source code of a computer program that is not within the text of a macro being generated. 

  • To be in a position allowing fluid to flow. 

  • Of a note, played without closing any finger-hole, key or valve. 

  • Able to be accessed (physically). 

  • Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels. 

  • That ends in a vowel; not having a coda. 

  • Not physically drawn together, closed, folded or contracted; extended. 

  • Receptive. 

  • Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of X, that defines a topological space on X. 

  • Written or sent with the intention that it may made public or referred to at any trial, rather than by way of confidential private negotiation for a settlement. 

  • Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration. 

  • Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate. 

  • Whose first and last vertices are different. 

patch

verb
  • To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable. 

  • To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on. 

  • To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt. 

  • To repair or arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner 

  • To employ a temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system. 

  • To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt. 

  • To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like 

  • To make a quick and possibly temporary change to a program. 

  • To fix or improve a computer program without a complete upgrade. 

noun
  • A cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground. 

  • A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location, time, size) 

  • A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting. 

  • A sound setting for a musical synthesizer (originally selected by means of a patch cable). 

  • An overlay used to obtain a stronger impression. 

  • A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc. 

  • A cable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment. 

  • A small piece of black silk stuck on the face or neck to heighten beauty by contrast, worn by ladies in the 17th and 18th centuries; an imitation beauty mark. 

  • A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it. 

  • A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore. 

  • A local region of professional responsibility. 

  • A piece of material used to cover a wound. 

  • An adhesive piece of material, impregnated with a drug, which is worn on the skin, the drug being slowly absorbed over a period of time. 

  • A patch file, a file that describes changes to be made to a computer file or files, usually changes made to a computer program that fix a programming bug. 

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