From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Batch \Batch\, n. [OE. bache, bacche, fr. AS. bacan to bake; cf.
G. geb[aum]ck and D. baksel. See {Bake}, v. t.]
[1913 Webster]
1. The quantity of bread baked at one time.
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2. A quantity of anything produced at one operation; a group
or collection of persons or things of the same kind; as, a
batch of letters; the next batch of business. "A new batch
of Lords." --Lady M. W. Montagu.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
batch
n 1: all the loaves of bread baked at the same time
2: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money";
"he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the
winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost
plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn:
{batch}, {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}]
3: a collection of things or persons to be handled together
[syn: {batch}, {clutch}]
v 1: batch together; assemble or process as a batch
From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]:
batch
adj.
1. Non-interactive. Hackers use this somewhat more loosely than the
traditional technical definitions justify; in particular, switches on a
normally interactive program that prepare it to receive non-interactive
command input are often referred to as batch mode switches. A batch file is
a series of instructions written to be handed to an interactive program
running in batch mode.
2. Performance of dreary tasks all at one sitting. ?I finally sat down in
batch mode and wrote out checks for all those bills; I guess they'll turn
the electricity back on next week...?
3. batching up: Accumulation of a number of small tasks that can be lumped
together for greater efficiency. ?I'm batching up those letters to send
sometime? ?I'm batching up bottles to take to the recycling center.?
[crunchly-2]
From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]:
Batch /baːtç/
batch
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