Sekirov Dictionary

batch

/bæt͡ʃ/

noun 10
verb 3
adjective 1
forms 3
phrases 1

noun10

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The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
- We made a batch of cookies to take to the party.
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A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
- We poured a bucket of water in at the top, and the ice-maker dispensed a batch of ice-cubes at the bottom.
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A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
- a new batch of Lords — 1710
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A set of data to be processed at one time.
- The system throttled itself to batches of 50 requests at a time to keep the thread count under control.
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(India, Philippines) A graduating class; school class.
- She was the valedictorian of Batch ’73.
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(rare) A group of bakers.
- A batch of bakers came to Copenhagen from Vienna, Austria, upon request. — 2024
(dialect, UK) A bread roll.
A bank; a sandbank.
A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.
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(no longer used) The process of baking.
- Except the baker doe his part also in the batch. — 1551

verb3

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To aggregate things together into a batch.
- The contractor batched the purchase orders for the entire month into one statement.
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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.
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(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.

adjective1

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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.

forms

batched · batching · batches

Phrases with batch

batch up
To line up multiple tasks to be executed at once in order to improve efficiency.

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