batch

batch ¹  (bch)

n.

1. An amount produced at one baking: a batch of cookies.

2. A quantity required for or produced as the result of one operation: made a batch of cookie dough; mixed a batch of cement.

3. A group of persons or things: a batch of tourists; a whole new batch of problems.

4. Computer Science A set of data or jobs to be processed in a single program run.

tr.v. batched, batch·ing, batch·es

To assemble or process as a batch.

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[Middle English bache, probably from Old English *bæcce, from bacan, to bake.]

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batch

Noun

1. a group of similar objects or people dispatched or dealt with at the same time

2. the bread, cakes, etc. produced at one baking

Verb

to group (items) for efficient processing [Middle English bache]

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Batch 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.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	batch - all the loaves of bread baked at the same time aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage - several things grouped together or considered as a whole
	2.	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" good deal, great deal, hatful, lot, muckle, passel, peck, mickle, mint, quite a little, slew, spate, tidy sum, wad, stack, raft, mountain, pile, plenty, mass, heap, deal, flock, pot, mess, sight large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity - an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude deluge, flood, inundation, torrent - an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse" haymow - a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation
	3.	batch - a collection of things or persons to be handled together clutch aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage - several things grouped together or considered as a whole schmear, schmeer, shmear - (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together; "he bought the whole schmeer"
Verb	1.	batch - batch together; assemble or process as a batch group - arrange into a group or groups; "Can you group these shapes together?"

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batch

noun group, set, lot, crowd, pack, collection, quantity, bunch, accumulation, assortment, consignment, assemblage, aggregation

Translations

batch [bætʃ] n → lote m; remesa; [of bread] → hornada

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batch [bætʃ] n [of bread] → fournée f [of papers]; liasse f [of applicants, letters]; paquet m [of work]; monceau m [of goods]; lot m

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batch [bætʃ] n (of bread) → Schub m;

(of letters, papers) → Stoß m, Stapel m;

(of applicants) → Gruppe f;

(of work) → Schwung m;

(of goods) → Ladung f, Sendung f

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batch [bætʃ] n [of bread] → infornata; [of papers] → cumulo; [of applicants, letters] → gruppo; [of work] → sezione f [of goods] → partita, lotto