Definition of Batch

(v. t.)
The quantity of bread baked at one time.
  

(v. t.)
A quantity of anything produced at one operation; a group or collection of persons or things of the same kind; as, a batch of letters; the next batch of business.
  

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batch
\batch\ (&?;), n. [oe. bache, bacche, fr. as. bacan to bake; cf. g. geb?ck and d. baksel. see bake, v. t.]
1. the quantity of bread baked at one time.
2. a quantity of anything produced at one operation; a group or collection of persons or things of the same kind; as, a batch of letters; the next batch of business. "a new batch of lords." w. montagu.
batch
n
1. all the loaves of bread baked at the same time
2. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent: "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty" [syn: deal, flock, good deal, great deal , hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little , raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum , wad, whole lot, whole slew]


3. a collection of things or persons to be handled together [syn: clutch]
v : batch together; assemble or process as a batch

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Pobiant = n. a baking, a batch

keep house alone or with a companion when neither is accustomed to housekeeping: "She was baching with a friend at North Sydney"; live alone: "an old hand at baching" (shortened from "bachelor", i.e. to live as a bachelor who has moved out of home

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Noun
1. all the loaves of bread baked at the same time
(hypernym) collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
2. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty"
(synonym) deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew
(hypernym) large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
(hyponym) flood, inundation, deluge, torrent
3. a collection of things or persons to be handled together
(synonym) clutch
(hypernym) collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
(hyponym) schmeer, schmear, shmear

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Verb
1. batch together; assemble or process as a batch
(hypernym) group
(derivation) clutch

A measured amount of oil or refined product in a pipeline or a tank. a shipment of oil or product by pipeline.

The product of one mixing operation.

adj. 1. Non-interactive. Hackers use this somewhat more loosely than the traditional technical definitions justify; in particular, switches on a normally interactive program that prepare it to receive non-interactive command input are often referred to as `batch mode' switches. A `batch file' is a series of instructions written to be handed to an interactive program running in batch mode. 2. Performance of dreary tasks all at one sitting. "I finally sat down in batch mode and wrote out checks for all those bills; I guess they'll turn the electricity back on next week..." 3. `batching up': Accumulation of a number of small tasks that can be lumped together for greater efficiency. "I'm batching up those letters to send sometime" "I'm batching up bottles to take to the recycling center."

A group of records which have related information.

A set of SQL statements submitted together and executed as a group. A script is often a series of batches submitted one after the other.

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A collection of products or data which is treated as one entity with respect to certain operations e.g. processing and production.

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