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 ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent; “a batch of letters”; “a deal of trouble”; “a lot of money”; “he made a mint on the stock market”; “see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos”; “it must have cost plenty”; “a slew of journalists”; “a wad of money”

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. gebäck 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