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batch
/bætʃ/
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What does batch mean?
noun
- 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.
More meanings (12)
noun
- A set of data to be processed at one time.
- A graduating class; school class.
- A bread roll.
- A bank; a sandbank.
- A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.
- (rare) A group of bakers.
- (obsolete) The process of baking.
verb
- To aggregate things together into a batch.
- To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.
- (informal) To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.
adjective
- Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.
proper noun
- A surname.
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IPA pronunciation
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You have seen a housewife sweating over her oven to get it hot enough to bake a batch of biscuits.
Their execution was followed on the morrow by a fresh batch of seventy Jacobins, and on the next day by thirteen.
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Our artificial epidemic of yellow fever was temporarily suspended while a new batch of susceptible material was brought in, observed and selected.
When the first squash seeds appear it is time to begin sowing cucumbers, starting a new batch each week until one emerges.
Bage was the exponent of steam puddings of every variety, and Madigan could always be relied upon for an unfailing batch of puff-pastry.