batch
1 (băch)
[Middle English bache, probably from Old English* bæcce, from bacan, to bake.]
noun
- An amount produced at one baking: a batch of cookies.
- A quantity required for or produced as the result of one operation: made a batch of cookie dough; mixed a batch of cement.
- A group of persons or things: a batch of tourists; a whole new batch of problems.
- Computer Science A set of data or jobs to be processed in a single program run.
transitive verb: batched, batch·ing, batch·es.
- To assemble or process as a batch.
batch
2 (băch)
noun verb
Informal
- Variant of bach
bach,
also batch
(băch)
Informal [Short for bachelor.]
noun
- A bachelor.
intransitive verb: bached, also batched, bach·ing, batch·ing, bach·es, batch·es
- To live alone and keep house as a bachelor.
idioms
- bach it
- To bach.