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batch
[ bach ]
noun
- a quantity or number coming at one time or taken together:
a batch of prisoners.
Synonyms: troop, pack, gang, flock, band, set, number, lot, group, bunch
- the quantity of material prepared or required for one operation:
mixing a batch of concrete.
- the quantity of bread, cookies, dough, or the like, made at one baking.
- Computers.
- a group of jobs, data, or programs treated as a unit for computer processing.
- Glassmaking.
- a quantity of raw materials mixed in proper proportions and prepared for fusion into glass.
- the material so mixed.
verb (used with object)
- to combine, mix, or process in a batch.
batch
1/ bætʃ /
noun
- a group or set of usually similar objects or people, esp if sent off, handled, or arriving at the same time
- the bread, cakes, etc, produced at one baking
- the amount of a material needed for an operation
- See pan loafAlso calledbatch loaf a tall loaf having a close texture and a thick crust on the top and bottom, baked as part of a batch: the sides of each loaf are greased so that they will pull apart after baking to have pale crumby sides; made esp in Scotland and Ireland Compare pan loaf
verb
- to group (items) for efficient processing
- to handle by batch processing
batch
2/ bætʃ /
verb
- intr (of a man) to do his own cooking and housekeeping
- to live alone
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Example Sentences
And if people find themselves dissatisfied with how often they turn to fast food, Bacon says to try things like batch cooking.
Make a batch of these rum balls, climb into a onesie, and let your favorite movie do the rest.
But the recent batch of polls shows Americans to be, what else, deeply split on whether Obama was right to do this by fiat.
He reminds Bob that “your people” destroyed Terminus, forcing its batch of psychos to survive “out here like everybody else.”
Then Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California, made a bad batch of vaccine, and 40,000 children were sickened with polio.
About one thousand pounds of tobacco would form an ordinary batch of snuff.
Nevertheless, a batch of convicts occasionally breaks jail, and those who are not shot down escape.
It would be the day of the October massacre, for instance; and he be on fire for the next batch of news.
She rose from her chair and began putting up the table-leaf and setting out the necessary dishes for a batch of cake.
There's a batch of 'em on the steps under here, a-sittin' in their sins, and shoutin' 'Down with Bill!'
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