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Synonyms for patchy
ˈpætʃ ipatchy
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Princeton's WordNet
patchyadjective
irregular or uneven in quality, texture, etc.
"a patchy essay"; "patchy fog"
Antonyms:
even
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "patchy":
uneven, fragmented, unequal, sparse, fragmentary, irregular, piecemeal, scattered
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#10224 | scattered | |
#13587 | irregular | |
#19025 | sparse | |
#21612 | uneven | |
#22917 | fragmented | |
#25409 | unequal | |
#36031 | patchy | |
#52254 | piecemeal | |
#61618 | fragmentary |
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I ’m expecting that it’s going to be patchy, you ca n’t get great foliage without a good setup in spring or summer. This year the setup is not terrible, but it’s also not ideal.
Much of New England had a really dry spring, and then we had variable rainfall this summer, some areas have gotten rainfall that’s well above normal, and we have some areas where rainfall has been below normal. Some places are still running a huge deficit for rainfall, while 10 miles away they are right on target or ahead. So it’s going to be a patchy year.
Europe will continue to be patchy ... But it will come through.
We believe that, most likely, what we're seeing is more uniform cloud cover on one of these planets versus more patchy cloud cover on the other, where you can see deeper into the atmospheric layers.
NZX hosts many of New Zealand's largest companies, including Fonterra Co-operative Group, which produces over 2 billion liters of milk every year and is the world's largest dairy exporter. Overseas investors owned roughly 40% of the equities market as of December 2018.DDoS attacks aim to disrupt service by flooding a network with large volumes of internet traffic. The Hong Kong Stock Exchange suffered a DDoS attack in September last year, which forced it to suspend trading, while Nasdaq, CBOE and BATS were hit by DDoS attacks for several days in 2012 resulting in patchy access to their websites but no disruptions to trading.The motive for the attack on New Zealand's stock market remains unclear and the exchange has not provided further details. How to protect yourself from cyberattacks while working from homeThis type of attack is becoming much more common, as cybercriminals capitalize on the growth in public clouds and sell their services cheaply on the dark web. DDoS attacks surged 542% in the first quarter of this year, compared to the final three months of 2019, according to cyber security company Nexusguard.''One reason why DDoS attacks are so inexpensive is that more and more people that offer DDoS-for-hire services are leveraging the scale and bandwidth of public clouds.
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