1. a group or set of usually similar objects or people, esp if sent off, handled, or arriving at the same time
2. (Cookery) the bread, cakes, etc, produced at one baking
3. the amount of a material needed for an operation
4. (Cookery) Also called: batch loaf a tall loaf having a close texture and a thick crust on the top and bottom, baked as part of a batch: the sides of each loaf are greased so that they will pull apart after baking to have pale crumby sides; made esp in Scotland and Ireland. Compare pan loaf
vb (tr)
5. (Computer Science) to group (items) for efficient processing
6. to handle by batch processing
[C15 bache; related to Old English bacan to bake; compare Old English gebæc batch, German Gebäck]
batch
(bætʃ) or
bach
vb
1. (intr) (of a man) to do his own cooking and housekeeping
a group or collection of persons or things of the same kind, taken or made at the same time. See also lot, sort.
Examples: batch of beers [a brewing], 1713; of bread [quantity baked at one time], 1461; of letters [usually a bundle] 1782; of notes; of politics, 1840; of prize money, 1838; of soup, 1878; of visitors, 1793.
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batch - (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"
a number of things made, delivered etc, all at one time. a batch of bread; The letters were sent out in batches. bondel, baksel, klomp كميّه، دُفْعَةٌ مِن количество lote várka, dávka, balík die Menge bundt; portion φουρνιά, παρτίδαhornada; lote tegu (leiba), partii, ports دسته؛ گروه erä tas, paquetקבוצה जत्था šarža egy sütet, tétel, csomó paket, adonan samsafn, slatti, sending, hópur infornata; lotto, partita; mucchio 一群 한 번에 처리되는 양 partija, siunta cepiens dalam kumpulan partijporsjon; sendingplik, partia حواله، يو تنور (ډوډۍ)، يوپخلى (خواړه)، يوه دسته (كاغذ)، يوه دسته يا اندازه (دهرشى)، يو فصل fornada grămadă; pachet пачка; группа; кучка dávka, várka; balík paket tovar hop, omgång, bunt จำนวนสิ่งของที่ผลิตหรือจัดส่งในเวลาเดียวกัน yığın, grup, parti 一次生產量,一批 повна піч хліба; пачка دستہ ، جتھا đợt 一次生产量,一批
Not a cousin of the batch but is amazed to hear from Sir Leicester at breakfast-time of the obliteration of landmarks, and opening of floodgates, and cracking of the framework of society, manifested through Mrs.
You brought out a book which had cost you years of thought and labour; it was given two or three contemptuous lines among a batch of similar volumes, twenty or thirty copies were sold, and the rest of the edition was pulped.
When Wilson had at last finished his tedious and difficult work, he arranged his results according to a plan in which a progressive order and sequence was a principal feature; then he added to the batch several pantograph enlargements which he had made from time to time in bygone years.
"I've seen her house, and I've seen that batch o' children, wearin' one another's clothes and never carin' whether they had 'em on right sid' out or not; I know what they've had to live and dress on, and so do you.
The bridesmaids' eight bouquets of white lilac and lilies-of-the-valley had been sent in due time, as well as the gold and sapphire sleeve-links of the eight ushers and the best man's cat's-eye scarf-pin; Archer had sat up half the night trying to vary the wording of his thanks for the last batch of presents from men friends and ex-lady-loves; the fees for the Bishop and the Rector were safely in the pocket of his best man; his own luggage was already at Mrs.
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