batch

Definition of Batch in English :

Noun

1. batch

all the loaves of bread baked at the same time

2. 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

(often followed by of') a large number or amount or extent

Example Sentences:
'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'

3. batch, clutch

a collection of things or persons to be handled together

clutch

Verb

4. batch

batch together; assemble or process as a batch

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Batch

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noun

1.

a group or set of usually similar objects or people, esp if sent off, handled, or arriving at the same time

2.

the bread, cakes, etc, produced at one baking

3.

the amount of a material needed for an operation

4. 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

verb (transitive)

5.

to group (items) for efficient processing

6.

to handle by batch processing

verb Australian and New Zealand informal

1. (intransitive)

(of a man) to do his own cooking and housekeeping

2.

to live alone

Batch

see synonyms of batch

noun

1.

the amount (of bread, etc.) produced at one baking

2.

the amount of material, as dough, needed for one operation

3.

the quantity of anything made in one operation or lot

4.

a number of things or persons taken as a group; lot; set

5.

a group of programs, instructions, etc. for processing by a computer in a single run

verb intransitive

bach

Batch

see synonyms of batch

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. Computers 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.

n. & v.
Informal

Variant of bach.

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