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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Patchwork  \Patch"work`\,  n. 
  Work  composed  of  pieces  sewed  together,  esp.  pieces  of 
  various  colors  and  figures;  hence  anything  put  together  of 
  incongruous  or  ill-adapted  parts  something  irregularly 
  clumsily  composed;  a  thing  putched  up  --Swift. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  patchwork 
  n  1:  a  theory  or  argument  made  up  of  miscellaneous  or  incongruous 
  ideas  [syn:  {hodgepodge},  {jumble}] 
  2:  a  quilt  made  by  sew  patches  of  different  materials  together 
  [syn:  {patchwork  quilt}] 
  3:  pieces  of  different  materials  sewn  together  in  a  pattern 




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