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Audio Help [bach] Pronunciation Key –noun
–verb (used with object)
| 1. | a quantity or number coming at one time or taken together: a batch of prisoners. |
| 2. | the quantity of material prepared or required for one operation: mixing a batch of concrete. |
| 3. | the quantity of bread, cookies, dough, or the like, made at one baking. |
| 4. | Computers.
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| 5. | Glassmaking.
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| 6. | to combine, mix, or process in a batch. |
—Synonyms 1. group, lot, number, bunch, gang, set, pack, flock, troop.
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Audio Help [bach] Pronunciation Key
Audio Help [bach] Pronunciation Key –verb (used without object), noun
| bach. |
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| bach also batch
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n. A bachelor. intr.v. bached also batched, bach·ing also batch·ing, bach·es also batch·es To live alone and keep house as a bachelor. [Short for bachelor.] |
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tr.v. batched, batch·ing, batch·es To assemble or process as a batch. [Middle English bache, probably from Old English *bæcce, from bacan, to bake.] |
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n. & v. Informal Variant of bach. |
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O.E. *bæcce "something baked," from bacan "bake." Batch is to bake as watch is to wake and match ("one of a pair") is to make. Extended 1713 to "any quantity produced at one operation."
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| batch | |
noun | |
| 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" |
| 3. | a collection of things or persons to be handled together |
verb | |
| 1. | batch together; assemble or process as a batch |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
batch [bӕtʃ] noun
a number of things made, delivered etc, all at one time
Example: a batch of bread; The letters were sent out in batches.
Example: a batch of bread; The letters were sent out in batches.
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
Batch
Batch\, n. [OE. bache, bacche, fr. AS. bacan to bake; cf. G. geb["a]ck and D. baksel. See Bake, v. t.]1. The quantity of bread baked at one time. 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.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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