batch

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Pronunciation

• enPR: băch, IPA: /bæt͡ʃ/

Noun

batch (plural batches)

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

   Synonyms: recipe

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

2. (by extension) A quantity of anything produced at one operation.

   Synonyms: pressing, run, lot

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

3. 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

   • a new batch of Lords

4. (computing) A set of data to be processed with one execution of a program.

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

5. (UK, dialect, Midlands) A bread roll.
6. (Philippines) A graduating class.

   She was the valedictorian of Batch '73.

7. (obsolete) The process of baking.

Translations

• French: fournée
• German: Liefermenge, Stapel
• Italian: infornata
• Portuguese: fornada
• Russian: па́ртия
• Spanish: hornada

Translations

• French: lot
• German: Partie
• Italian: lotto
• Portuguese: lote
• Russian: па́ртия
• Spanish: lote

Translations

• French: jeu
• Italian: serie
• Russian: па́ртия
• Spanish: lote

Translations

• French: lot
• Italian: batch
• Russian: паке́т
• Spanish: lote, procesamiento por lotes

Verb

batch (batches, present participle batching; past and past participle batched)

1. (transitive) To aggregate things together into a batch.

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

2. (transitive, computing) To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.

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

Adjective

batch (not comparable)

1. Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.

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

Antonyms

• continuous

Noun

batch (plural batches)

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

Verb

batch (batches, present participle batching; past and past participle batched)

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

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

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