Batch
[bætʃ]
Definition
(noun.) a collection of things or persons to be handled together.
(noun.) all the loaves of bread baked at the same time.
(noun.) (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'; 'see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos'; 'it must have cost plenty'; 'a slew of journalists'; 'a wad of money'.
(verb.) batch together; assemble or process as a batch.
Inputed by Angie--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Inputed by Jill
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Certain quantity (as of bread, ore, &c., treated at one time).
Edited by Jonathan
Definition
n. the quantity of bread baked or of anything made or got ready at one time: a set.
Inputed by Jenny
Examples
- If this extra cool air is used for cooling another batch of air under pressure, the latter upon expansion becomes still colder than the first batch expanded. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This feeling was evidently evanescent, for on the succeeding Monday the work was continued and carried on by him as keenly as before, as shown by the next batch of notes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Go and see him when he has a good batch. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- When she went upstairs that night she found that the late post had brought her a fresh batch of bills. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- This batch of material goes back for another crushing, so that everything is subjected to an equality of refining. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- You are engaged at three o'clock; you are going to see the batch of to-day executed. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Here is a fresh batch arriving; every place will be taken. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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