batch

Plural: batches

Noun

all the loaves of bread baked at the same time
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
- "a batch of letters"
a collection of things or persons to be handled together
The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
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.
A bread roll.
A graduating class; school class.
The process of baking.
A bank; a sandbank.
A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.

Verb

Verb Forms: batched, batching, batches

To group items together.
batch together; assemble or process as a batch
To aggregate things together into a batch.
To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.
To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.

Adj

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

Examples

I am batching next week when my wife visits her sister.
I’ll batch these consonants together and exchange them on my next turn.
She was the valedictorian of Batch ’73.
The contractor batched the purchase orders for the entire month into one statement.
The plant had two batch assembly lines for packaging, as well as a continuous feed production line.
The purchase requests for the day were stored in a queue and batched for printing the next morning.
The system throttled itself to batches of 50 requests at a time to keep the thread count under control.
We made a batch of cookies to take to the party.
We poured a bucket of water in at the top, and the ice-maker dispensed a batch of ice-cubes at the bottom.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English bach, bache, bahche, from Old English *bæċċ (“something baked”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-West Germanic *bakku, from Proto-Germanic *bakkuz (“baking, baked goods”), cognate with Middle High German becke (“something baked, pastry, baking, bakery”). Related also to Old English bacan (“to bake”), Old English ġebæc (“something baked”), Dutch gebak, German Gebäck, Dutch baksel.

Synonyms

clutch, 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, group, pressing, run

Antonyms

continuous

Scrabble Score: 12

batch: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
batch: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
batch: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

batch: valid Words With Friends Word