batch

4 definitions found

batch - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Batch \Batch\, n. [OE. bache, bacche, fr. AS. bacan to bake; cf.
     G. geb[aum]ck and D. baksel. See Bake, v. t.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. The quantity of bread baked at one time.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]

batch - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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"; "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" [syn:
         batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal,
         hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint,
         mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty,
         pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate,
         stack, tidy sum, wad]
      3: a collection of things or persons to be handled together
         [syn: batch, clutch]
      v 1: batch together; assemble or process as a batch

batch - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  batch
   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."
  
  
  

batch - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  85 Moby Thesaurus words for "batch":
     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