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batch

1  [bach]
–noun
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.
a. a group of jobs, data, or programs treated as a unit for computer processing.
b. batch processing.
5. Glassmaking.
a. a quantity of raw materials mixed in proper proportions and prepared for fusion into glass.
b. the material so mixed.
–verb (used with object)
6. to combine, mix, or process in a batch.
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Origin:
1400–50; late ME bache, akin to bacan to bake; cf. OE gebæc, G Gebäck batch

Synonyms:
1. group, lot, number, bunch, gang, set, pack, flock, troop.

batch

2  [bach]
–verb (used without object), noun
bach.
Origin:
tch to clarify and normalize pron.
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2010.
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bach also batch   (bāch)   
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.]
batch 1   (bāch)   
n.  

  1. An amount produced at one baking: a batch of cookies.

  2. A quantity required for or produced as the result of one operation: made a batch of cookie dough; mixed a batch of cement.

  3. A group of persons or things: a batch of tourists; a whole new batch of problems.

  4. Computer Science A set of data or jobs to be processed in a single program run.

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.]
batch 2   (bāch)   
n.   & v. Informal
Variant of bach.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

batch 
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
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