batch

English Online Dictionary. What means batch‎? What does batch mean?

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: băch, IPA^(key): /bæt͡ʃ/
• 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.

2. (by extension) A quantity of anything produced at one operation.

   Synonyms: pressing, run, lot

3. 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

   • c. 1710-1720, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Epistle to Lord Hervey on the King's Birthday

     a new batch of Lords

4. (computing) A set of data to be processed at one time.

5. (UK, dialect, Midlands) A bread roll.
6. (Philippines) A graduating class; school class.

7. (obsolete) The process of baking.

Derived terms

Translations

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.

2. (transitive, computing) To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.

Derived terms

Adjective

batch (not comparable)

1. Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.

Antonyms

• continuous

Derived terms

• batch mode
• batch process

References

• “batch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN

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.

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

Synonyms

• kommandofil
• körning
• program
• sats