English Explanatory Dictionary

batch

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
  2. A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
  3. A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
  4. A set of data to be processed at one time.
  5. A bread roll.
  6. A graduating class; school class.
  7. The process of baking.
verb
  1. To aggregate things together into a batch.
  2. To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.
adj
  1. Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.
noun
  1. A bank; a sandbank.
  2. A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.
verb
  1. To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

băch /bæt͡ʃ/ en-us-batch.ogg

Word forms

batch batches batching batched baiche

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

pressing run lot group

Antonyms

continuous

Derived words

batch-edit batch file batch job batchmate batch picking batch processing batch production batch queue batchwise interbatch intrabatch masterbatch microbatch minibatch multi-batch picking prebatch subbatch zone-batch picking zone-batch-wave picking batchable batch up rebatch batch mode batch process

Translations

Armenian: խմբաքանակ Bulgarian: фурна Catalan: fornada Dutch: lot Finnish: erä Finnish: satsi French: fournée Galician: fornada Galician: cocedura German: Liefermenge German: Stapel Hungarian: sütet Indonesian: lot Irish: baisc Italian: infornata Japanese: ひと焼き分 Ligurian: fornâ Macedonian: фурна Norwegian: ladning Polish: partia Portuguese: fornada Punjabi: ਪਰਾਗਾ Punjabi: پَراگا Russian: па́ртия Russian: по́рция Spanish: hornada Spanish: tanda Spanish: horneada Swedish: bak Swedish: sats Welsh: pobiad Welsh: crasiad
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