batch

1. 1

   The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.

   • We made a batch of cookies to take to the party.
2. 2

   The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.; A quantity of anything produced at one operation.broadly

   • We poured a bucket of water in at the top, and the ice-maker dispensed a batch of ice-cubes at the bottom.
3. 3

   A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.collective

   • c. 1710-1720, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Epistle to Lord Hervey on the King's Birthday a new batch of Lords
4. 4

   A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.; A group of bakers.collectiverare

   • A batch of bakers came to Copenhagen from Vienna, Austria, upon request.
   • The matter now became serious, for Charles had changed his butcher already three or four times, and was having his bread of nearly the last of a confiding batch of bakers.
5. 5

   A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.; A set of data to be processed at one time.collective

   • The system throttled itself to batches of 50 requests at a time to keep the thread count under control.
6. 6

   A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.; A graduating class; school class.IndiaPhilippinescollective

   • She was the valedictorian of Batch ’73.
7. 7

   A bread roll.MidlandsUKdialectal

8. 8

   The process of baking.obsolete

   • Except the baker doe his part also in the batch.

1. 1

   To aggregate things together into a batch.transitive

   • The contractor batched the purchase orders for the entire month into one statement.
2. 2

   To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.transitive

   • The purchase requests for the day were stored in a queue and batched for printing the next morning.

1. 1

   Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.not-comparable

   • The plant had two batch assembly lines for packaging, as well as a continuous feed production line.

ant. continuous

1. 1

   A bank; a sandbank.

2. 2

   A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.

1. 1

   To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.informal

   • I am batching next week when my wife visits her sister.