batch

See also: Batch

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: băch, IPA(key): /bæt͡ʃ/
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  • Rhymes: -ætʃ

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

batch (plural batches)

  1. The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
    We made a batch of cookies to take to the party.
    1. (by extension) A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
      Synonyms: pressing, run, lot
      We poured a bucket of water in at the top, and the ice-maker dispensed a batch of ice-cubes at the bottom.
  2. (collective) A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
    Synonyms: group, lot
    1. (rare, collective) A group of bakers.
      • 2024, Dr. Avin Thaliath, A Baker’s Journey: Science in the Art of Baking‎[1], Partridge Publishing India:
        A batch of bakers came to Copenhagen from Vienna, Austria, upon request.
      • 2020, Gilbert Abbott è Becket, The Comic History of England‎[2]:
        The matter now became serious, for Charles had changed his butcher already three or four times, and was having his bread of nearly the last of a confiding batch of bakers.
      • 2012, Wade Powers, The Resurrection Factor‎[3], page 175:
        And the heaviest batch of bakers on the planet
    2. (computing) 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.
    3. (India, Philippines) A graduating class; school class.
      She was the valedictorian of Batch ’73.
  3. (UK, dialect, Midlands) A bread roll.
  4. (obsolete) The process of baking.
    • 1551, T. Wilson, Logike 42 b:
      Except the baker doe his part also in the batch.
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Verb

batch (third-person singular simple present batches, present participle batching, simple past and past participle batched)

  1. (transitive) To aggregate things together into a batch.
    The contractor batched the purchase orders for the entire month into one statement.
    • 2026, Robin Nistock, quotee, “Makers Space”, in Spin Off, volume L, number 1, page 13:
      Sound but more workaday fleeces are batched to make roving and yarn.
  2. (transitive, computing) 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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Adjective

batch (not comparable)

  1. 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.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English bache, bæcche, from Old English bæċ, beċe (“brook, stream”). Doublet of beck. More at beach.

Alternative forms

  • baiche (obsolete)

Noun

batch (plural batches)

  1. A bank; a sandbank.
  2. A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.

Etymology 3

Clipping of bachelor (“unmarried adult male”).

Verb

batch (third-person singular simple present batches, present participle batching, simple past and past participle batched)

  1. (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.
    • 1948, Dorothy M. Johnson, Beyond the Frontier; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 129:
      When he and Edwards were batching it, getting the log house built and making a start with cattle, they had done a lot of planning about how things would be when Blossom came out.
Usage notes
  • Often with it: "I usually batch it three nights a week when she calls on her out-of-town accounts."

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English batch

Noun

batch c

  1. (computing, slang) a batch (of commands, processed as a group)

Declension

Declension of batch
nominative genitive
singular indefinite batch batchs
definite batchen batchens
plural indefinite batcher batchers
definite batcherna batchernas
Declension of batch
nominative genitive
singular indefinite batch batchs
definite batchen batchens
plural indefinite batchar batchars
definite batcharna batcharnas

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