An article published in Harvard Menâs Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
BATCH
batch, clutch
(noun) a collection of things or persons to be handled together
batch
(noun) all the loaves of bread baked at the same time
batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
(noun) (often followed by âofâ) a large number or amount or extent; âa batch of lettersâ; âa deal of troubleâ; âa lot of moneyâ; âhe made a mint on the stock marketâ; âsee the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photosâ; âit must have cost plentyâ; âa slew of journalistsâ; âa wad of moneyâ
batch
(verb) batch together; assemble or process as a batch
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
batch (plural batches)
The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
Synonym: recipe
(by extension) A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
Synonyms: pressing, run, lot
A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
Synonyms: group, lot
(computing) A set of data to be processed with one execution of a program.
(UK, dialect, Midlands) A bread roll.
(Philippines) A graduating class.
(obsolete) The process of baking.
Verb
batch (third-person singular simple present batches, present participle batching, simple past and past participle batched)
(transitive) To aggregate things together into a batch.
(transitive, computing) To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.
Adjective
batch (not comparable)
Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.
Antonyms
• continuous
Etymology 2
Noun
batch (plural batches)
A bank; a sandbank.
A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.
Etymology 3
Verb
batch (third-person singular simple present batches, present participle batching, simple past and past participle batched)
(informal) To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.
Usage notes
• Often with it: "I usually batch it three nights a week when she calls on her out-of-town accounts."
Source: Wiktionary
Batch, n. Etym: [OE. bache, bacche, fr. AS. bacan to bake; cf. G. gebÀck and D. baksel. See Bake, v. t.]
1. The quantity of bread baked at one time.
2. A quantity of anything produced at one operation; a group or collection of persons or things of the same kind; as, a batch of letters; the next batch of business. "A new batch of Lords." Lady M. W. Montagu.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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