Meaning of BATCH
| Pronunciation: | | bach
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- [n] a collection of things or persons to be handled together
- [n] all the loaves of bread baked at the same time
- [n] (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"
- [v] batch together; assemble or process as a batch
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| | Synonyms: | | clutch, 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 |
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| | See Also: | | accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection, deluge, flood, group, inundation, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, schmear, schmeer, shmear, torrent | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Batch\, n. [OE. bache, bacche, fr. AS. bacan to bake; cf.
G. geb["a]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.'' --Lady M. W. Montagu.
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| | Related Terms: | | amount, array, assortment, block, budget, bulk, bunch, bundle, chunk, clod, clump, cluster, clutch, collection, considerable, copse, count, crop, deal, dose, gob, gobs, good deal, great deal, group, grouping, groupment, grove, hassock, heap, heaps, hunk, knot, large amount, lashings, loads, loaf, lot, lots, lump, make, making, mass, measure, mess, mint, nugget, number, oodles, pack, parcel, part, pat, peck, pile, piles, portion, pot, quantity, quite a little, raft, rafts, ration, run, scads, set, shock, sight, slew, slews, small amount, spate, stack, stacks, stook, sum, thicket, tidy sum, tuft, tussock, volume, wad, wads, whole slew, wisp |
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