patchwork

1. (исчисляемое, неисчисляемое)A work, such as a blanket, composed of many different colors and shapes, sewn together to make an interesting whole.

   sewing consisting of pieces of different materials sewn together in a pattern

2. (исчисляемое, переносно, неисчисляемое)Any kind of creation that makes use of many different aspects to create one whole piece.

   Bill took all of his poetry and put it together in a folder. It made up a patchwork of his life.

3. (исчисляемое, пренебрежительное, неисчисляемое)A state of regulations whose constituents have an opaque scope of application because of their questionable delimitation with regard to each other.

1. Grandma made me a patchwork rug.

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2. From the plane, the landscape was just a patchwork of fields.

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3. Now, get out your patchwork and have your square done before teatime.

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4. After 10 years of patchwork development, the software had become so slow and unwieldy that it had to be rebuilt from scratch.

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5. In prehistory, Sahara was a patchwork of rivers and swamps.

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