1) Arid 2) Mended 3) Patterned 4) Spotted 1) By the local repair man 2) Fixed a tire 3) Having spots or patches 4) Trojan horse 
Patched (Ptc) is a conserved 12-pass transmembrane protein receptor that plays an obligate negative regulatory role in the Hedgehog signaling pathway in insects and vertebrates. The original mutations in the ptc gene were discovered in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster by 1995 Nobel Laureates Eric F. Wieschaus and Christiane Nusslein-Volhard a...[malware] Win32/Patched is a Computer Trojan targeting the Microsoft Windows operating system that was first detected in October 2008. Files detected as `Trojan.Win32.Patched` are usually Windows components that are patched by a malicious application. The purpose of patching varies. For example, certain malware patches system components in ...
• (imp. & p. p.) of Patch
Any solid colour, tortoiseshell or tabby pattern plus white.
[adj] - having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture) 2. [adj] - mended usually clumsily by covering a hole with a patch
spotty adjective having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture); `a field patched with ice and snow`; `the wall had a spotty speckled effect`; `a black-and-white spotted cow`