batch

noun

1. 1

   The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.

   We made a batch of cookies to take to the party.

2. 2

   The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time. A quantity of anything produced at one operation.

   We poured a bucket of water in at the top, and the ice-maker dispensed a batch of ice-cubes at the bottom.

3. 3

   A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.

   c. 1710-1720, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Epistle to Lord Hervey on the King's Birthday a new batch of Lords

4. 4

   rareA group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business. A group of bakers.

   A batch of bakers came to Copenhagen from Vienna, Austria, upon request.

   The matter now became serious, for Charles had changed his butcher already three or four times, and was having his bread of nearly the last of a confiding batch of bakers.

   And the heaviest batch of bakers on the planet

5. 5

   A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business. A set of data to be processed at one time.

   The system throttled itself to batches of 50 requests at a time to keep the thread count under control.

6. 6

   A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business. A graduating class; school class.

   She was the valedictorian of Batch ’73.

7. 7

   A bread roll.

8. 8

   obsoleteThe process of baking.

   Except the baker doe his part also in the batch.

verb

1. 1

   To aggregate things together into a batch.

   The contractor batched the purchase orders for the entire month into one statement.

   Sound but more workaday fleeces are batched to make roving and yarn.

2. 2

   To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.

   The purchase requests for the day were stored in a queue and batched for printing the next morning.

adjective

1. 1

   Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.

   The plant had two batch assembly lines for packaging, as well as a continuous feed production line.

noun

1. 1

   A bank; a sandbank.

2. 2

   A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.

verb

1. 1

   informalTo live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.

   I am batching next week when my wife visits her sister.

Forms

plural

batches

past tense

batched

past participle

batched

present participle

batching

third person singular

batches