Word Meanings - PATCHWORK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PATCHWORK)

• Compilation
• Collation
• composition
• patchwork

Related words: (words related to PATCHWORK)

• COLLATION
  The gathering and examination of sheets preparatory to binding. 3. The act of conferring or bestowing. Not by the collation of the king . . . but by the people. Bacon. 4. A conference. Chaucer. (more info) OF. collacion, F. collation, fr. L.
• COMPILATION
  1. The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources. 2. That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents. His compilations are widely distinguished
• COLLATIONER
  One who examines the sheets of a book that has just been printed, to ascertain whether they are correctly printed, paged, etc.
• PATCHWORK
  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.
• COMPOSITION
  The adjustment of a debt, or avoidance of an obligation, by some form of compensation agreed on between the parties; also, the sum or amount of compensation agreed upon in the adjustment. Compositions for not taking the order of knighthood. Hallam.
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
• DECOLLATION
  1. The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; -- especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist. 2. A painting representing the beheading of a saint or martyr, esp. of St. John the Baptist.
• RECOMPOSITION
  The act of recomposing.
• RECOMPILATION
  A new compilation.
• DISCOMPOSITION
  Inconsistency; discordance. Donne.