batch
pronunciation
How to pronounce batch in British English:
UK [bætʃ]
How to pronounce batch in American English:
US [bætʃ]
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- Noun:
- all the loaves of bread baked at the same time
- (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
- a collection of things or persons to be handled together
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- Verb:
- batch together; assemble or process as a batch
Word Origin
- batch
- batch: see bake
- batch (n.)
- Old English *bæcce "something baked," from bacan "bake" (see bake (v.)). Batch is to bake as watch (n.) is to wake and match (n.2) "one of a pair" is to make. Extended 1713 to "any quantity produced at one operation."
Example
- 1. This threatens to create the next batch of bubbles .
- 2. A batch architecture typically affects on-line architecture and vice versa .
- 3. Try doing stuff in batch .
- 4. Dr. gross expects to sell out of every batch .
- 5. It is not obvious that his latest batch of ideas will prove a stronger umbrella against the political weather .