noun
- An amount produced at one baking: a batch of cookies.
- A quantity required for or produced as the result of one operation: made a batch of cookie dough; mixed a batch of cement.
- A group of persons or things: a batch of tourists; a whole new batch of problems.
- Computers A set of data or jobs to be processed in a single program run.
transitive verb
batched, batch·ing, batch·es To assemble or process as a batch.
Origin of batch
Middle English
bache probably from Old English
bæcce from bacan to bake
Noun (plural batches)
- A bank; a sandbank.
- A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.
Origin From Middle English bache, bæcche, from Old English bæċe, beċe (“brook, stream”), from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“brook”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰog- (“flowing water”). More at beach.
Noun (plural batches)
- The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
- We made a batch of cookies to take to the party.
- A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
- We poured a bucket of water in top, and the ice maker spit out a batch of icecubes at the bottom.
- A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
- (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.
- (UK, dialect, Midlands) A bread roll.
- (Philippines) A graduating class.
- She was the valedictorian of Batch '73.
Verb (third-person singular simple present batches, present participle batching, simple past and past participle batched)
- To aggregate things together into a batch.
- The contractor batched the purchase orders for the entire month into one statement.
- (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 (not comparable)
- 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.
Origin From Middle English bache (bacche), from Old English bæcce (“something baked”), from bacan (“to bake”). Compare German Gebäck and Dutch baksel.
Verb (third-person singular simple present batches, present participle batching, simple past and past participle batched)
- (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.
Usage notes - Often with it: "I usually batch it three nights a week when she calls on her out-of-town accounts."
Origin from an abbreviation of the pronunciation of bachelor (“unmarried adult male”)
