"patching" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "patchings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "patching (plural patchings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "patch‧ing"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield",
          "text": "[…] all this is not neatness, but frippery. These rufflings, and pinkings, and patchings, will only make us hated by all the wives of our neighbours.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of one who patches."
      ],
      "id": "en-patching-en-noun-fVUHDYzg",
      "links": [
        [
          "patch",
          "patch#verb"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpæ.t͡ʃɪŋ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "patching"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "patching",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "patch‧ing"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "5 95",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "monkey-patching"
        },
        {
          "word": "patching up"
        },
        {
          "word": "patching-up"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "patch"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of patch"
      ],
      "id": "en-patching-en-verb-wMFgZTrO",
      "links": [
        [
          "patch",
          "patch#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpæ.t͡ʃɪŋ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "patching"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English verb forms"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "patchings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "patching (plural patchings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "patch‧ing"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield",
          "text": "[…] all this is not neatness, but frippery. These rufflings, and pinkings, and patchings, will only make us hated by all the wives of our neighbours.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of one who patches."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "patch",
          "patch#verb"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpæ.t͡ʃɪŋ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "patching"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English verb forms"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "monkey-patching"
    },
    {
      "word": "patching up"
    },
    {
      "word": "patching-up"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "patching",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "patch‧ing"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "patch"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of patch"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "patch",
          "patch#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpæ.t͡ʃɪŋ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "patching"
}