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. broadlyA quantity of anything produced at one operation.

      We poured a bucket of water in at the top, and the ice-maker dispensed a batch of ice-cubes at the bottom.

      Synonyms: pressing, run, lot

2. collectiveA group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.

   c. 1710-1720, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Epistle to Lord Hervey on the King's Birthday a new batch of Lords

   Synonyms: group, lot

   1. collectiverareA group of bakers.

      And the heaviest batch of bakers on the planet

      2012, Wade Powers, The Resurrection Factor, page 175

      2 more examples

      A batch of bakers came to Copenhagen from Vienna, Austria, upon request.

      2024, Dr. Avin Thaliath, A Baker’s Journey: Science in the Art of Baking, Partridge Publishing India

      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.

      2020, Gilbert Abbott è Becket, The Comic History of England

      Synonyms: group, lot

   2. collectivecomputingA 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.

      Synonyms: group, lot

   3. IndiaPhilippinescollectiveA graduating class; school class.

      She was the valedictorian of Batch ’73.

      Synonyms: group, lot

3. MidlandsUKdialectalA bread roll.
4. obsoleteThe process of baking.

   Except the baker doe his part also in the batch.

   1551, T. Wilson, Logike 42 b

present singular third person batches · participle present batching · participle past batched · past batched

1. transitiveTo aggregate things together into a batch.

   The contractor batched the purchase orders for the entire month into one statement.

   1 more example

   Sound but more workaday fleeces are batched to make roving and yarn.

   2026, Robin Nistock, quotee, “Makers Space”, in Spin Off, volume L, number 1, page 13

2. transitivecomputingTo 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.

1. not comparableOf 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.

plural batches · alternative obsolete baiche

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

present singular third person batches · participle present batching · participle past batched · past batched

1. informalTo live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.

   I am batching next week when my wife visits her sister.

   1 more example

   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.

   1948, Dorothy M. Johnson, Beyond the Frontier; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 129

plural Batches

1. A surname.