batch
Americannoun
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batches
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a quantity or number coming at one time or taken together.
a batch of prisoners.
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the quantity of material prepared or required for one operation.
mixing a batch of concrete.
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the quantity of bread, cookies, dough, or the like, made at one baking.
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Computers.
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a group of jobs, data, or programs treated as a unit for computer processing.
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Glassmaking.
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a quantity of raw materials mixed in proper proportions and prepared for fusion into glass.
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the material so mixed.
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verb (used with object)
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batches,
present (3rd person singular)
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batched,
past participle, past
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batching
present participle
noun
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a group or set of usually similar objects or people, esp if sent off, handled, or arriving at the same time
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the bread, cakes, etc, produced at one baking
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the amount of a material needed for an operation
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Also called: batch 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
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to group (items) for efficient processing
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to handle by batch processing
verb
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(intr) (of a man) to do his own cooking and housekeeping
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to live alone
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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batchsimple
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batchessimple
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have batchedperfect
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has batchedperfect
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am batchingprogressive
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are batchingprogressive
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is batchingprogressive
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have been batchingperfect progressive
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has been batchingperfect progressive
Past
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batchedsimple
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had batchedperfect
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was batchingprogressive
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were batchingprogressive
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had been batchingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of batch
First recorded in 1425–75; late Middle English bache “amount of bread produced in one baking,” Old English gebæc; akin to German Gebäck “pastry, cakes”; see origin at bake
Explanation
A batch is a completed group, collection, or quantity of something, especially something that's just been made. You might, for example, bake a batch of cookies to take to your new neighbor. A company that makes soap might deliver a batch, loaded on a truck, to a new store in Vermont, and if you manage a bakery you might declare, "That's it! This is our last batch of gingerbread until next year!" In computer lingo, a batch is, similarly, a group or collection of records. The Old English root, bæcce, means "something baked," from bacan, "bake."
Vocabulary lists containing batch
The Martian Chronicles
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Century 21 Accounting, 9e, Chapters 8-10
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Example Sentences
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After the mistakes were pointed out in court, Musick, Peeler & Garrett acknowledged the firm had discovered “nonexistent case citations which appear to have been AI hallucinations” across a recent batch of motions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
For now, all eyes are on Wednesday’s inflation report for July and the remaining batch of quarterly corporate earnings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
In Rome, Claudia Rinaldi of eyewear shop Vision Optika said a first batch of eclipse glasses "sold out almost immediately".
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Heading into the latest batch of earnings reports and the Fed’s July 29 decision on interest rates, options positioning appeared to have left dealers with significant negative-gamma exposure.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
The first batch of ice cream is so bland, it tastes like paper.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
The analysis also suggests that the vessel received four to five separate batches of coating over time.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
The NBA borrowed from the NFL’s marketing playbook by releasing its new schedule in batches, starting with Tuesday’s reveal of the opening-day and Christmas Day games.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Indium-phosphide crystals are brittle and grown in small batches, and the industry is only now moving from three-inch to six-inch wafers, a step silicon took in the 1980s.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Guibergia, who has been in the business for 25 years, said he planned to pick the grapes and turn them into wine in several separate batches to help limit damage from any contaminated fruit.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
Sometimes they hit without warning, and other times you knew one was coming when you saw batches of dust devils swirling and dancing their way across the desert.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
Orders are picked and packed at stores and then moved to sortation centers to be batched based on neighborhood for delivery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
I feel it every time I walk into my mom’s house and discover she’s already made, batched, and frozen my favorite homemade candies, a quiet ritual she learned from her own mother.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025
Sortation centers receive packages for online orders from 30 to 40 surrounding Target stores that are sorted, batched and routed for delivery to local neighborhoods by a third-party carrier or Shipt, which Target owns.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 19, 2023
“App is doing >1000 poorly batched RPCs just to render a home timeline!”
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
They batched in the office, and did their cooking over a gas lamp.
From While the Billy Boils by Henry Lawson
The agency said that Mars Wrigley didn’t properly train the workers when they went to clean the Dove chocolate batching 20 micron tank.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
It noted that the workers fell into a batching tank - a tank used to mix ingredients - for Dove chocolate, a brand sold in the US.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2023
Freezing, drying and canning summer produce, double batching meals and freezing baked goods are all proven strategies.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2022
Close to the batching tower, which may rival the Gadsden Hotel in Douglas as the tallest structure in Cochise County, cement trucks cluster like a litter of puppies.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2020
Machine batching is preferred by many firms because the application of oil and water, and the proportion of each, are much more uniform than they are by the above mentioned process of hand batching.
From The Jute Industry: from Seed to Finished Cloth by T. Woodhouse
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