What does "batch" mean?
The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
Batch
/bæt͡ʃ/ adj, name, noun, verb, slang
adj, name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·Middle school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
- Grammar: batch is listed as adj, name, noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: lot, accumulate, aggregate, amass.
- Useful contrasts: continuous, incremental graph algorithm, incremental real-time algorithm.
- Usage evidence: Mary made a batch of cupcakes for the party, and they were eaten in no time.
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Definitions
Noun
- 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 A bank; a sandbank.
- 3 a collection of things or persons to be handled together wordnet
- 4 A quantity of anything produced at one operation. broadly
"We poured a bucket of water in at the top, and the ice-maker dispensed a batch of ice-cubes at the bottom."
- 5 A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.
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- 6 all the loaves of bread baked at the same time wordnet
- 7 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"
- 8 (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent wordnet
- 9 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."
- 10 A bread roll. Midlands, UK, dialectal
- 11 A graduating class; school class. Philippines
"She was the valedictorian of Batch ’73."
- 12 The process of baking. obsolete
"Except the baker doe his part also in the batch."
Verb
- 1 To aggregate things together into a batch. transitive
"The contractor batched the purchase orders for the entire month into one statement."
- 2 To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married. informal
"I am batching next week when my wife visits her sister."
- 3 batch together; assemble or process as a batch wordnet
- 4 To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process. transitive
"The purchase requests for the day were stored in a queue and batched for printing the next morning."
Adjective
- 1 Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting. not-comparable
"The plant had two batch assembly lines for packaging, as well as a continuous feed production line."
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Antonyms
Example
"Mary made a batch of cupcakes for the party, and they were eaten in no time."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "batch"?
Common synonyms include: lot, accumulate, aggregate, amass, amount, array.
How do you use "batch" in a sentence?
Mary made a batch of cupcakes for the party, and they were eaten in no time.
How do you pronounce "batch"?
Pronounced /bæt͡ʃ/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English bach, bache, bahche, from Old English *bæċċ (“something baked”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-West Germanic *bakku, from Proto-Germanic *bakkuz (“baking, baked goods”), cognate with Middle High German becke (“something baked, pastry, baking, bakery”). Related also to Old English bacan (“to bake”), Old English ġebæc (“something baked”), Dutch gebak, German Gebäck, Dutch baksel.
Etymology 2
From Middle English bache, bæcche, from Old English bæċ, beċe (“brook, stream”). Doublet of beck. More at beach.
Etymology 3
Clipping of bachelor (“unmarried adult male”).
Etymology 4
Variant of Bach.