batch

Meaning

Noun

1. The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
2. (broadly) A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
3. A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
4. A set of data to be processed at one time.
5. (Midlands, UK, dialectal) A bread roll.
6. (Philippines) A graduating class; school class.
7. (obsolete) The process of baking.

Verb

1. (transitive) To aggregate things together into a batch.
2. (transitive) To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.

Adj

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

Verb

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

Synonyms

lot

group

block

mass

pile

flock

mountain

⛰️

heap

set

stack

hatful

series

run

wad

pot

bunch

deal

mess

raft

pack

portion

good deal

clutch

great deal

tidy sum

succession

string

🪢

throng

clump

cluster

troop

slew

batching

spate

assembly

sight

plenty

peck

parcel

mound

muckle

passel

consignment

mickle

family

👪

bundle

battery

🔋

collection

mint

quite a little

Translations

lot

lote

fournée

hornada

yığın

lote

δέσμη

Stapel

φουρνιά

grupo

Batch

partita

lotto

lot

Stoß

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bæt͡ʃ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: bach

Inherited from Old English: *bæċċ

Cognate with Middle High German: becke

Cognate with Old English: ġebæc

Cognate with Dutch: gebak

Cognate with German: Gebäck

Cognate with Dutch: baksel

Inherited from Middle English: bache

Inherited from Old English: bæċ

In summary

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.