Standard Lemma guide

batch

adj · name · noun · verb · 18 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • băch
  • /bæt͡ʃ/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ætʃ
  • CMU ARPABET: B AE1 CH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • The plant had two batch assembly lines for packaging, as well as a continuous feed production line.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • We made a batch of cookies to take to the party.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A quantity of anything produced at one operation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly

Examples

  • We poured a bucket of water in at the top, and the ice-maker dispensed a batch of ice-cubes at the bottom.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: pressing, run, lot

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • c. 1710-1720, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Epistle to Lord Hervey on the King's Birthday a new batch of Lords

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: group, lot

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

A set of data to be processed at one time.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

Examples

  • The system throttled itself to batches of 50 requests at a time to keep the thread count under control.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

A bread roll.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Midlands, UK, dialectal

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

A graduating class; school class.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Philippines

Examples

  • She was the valedictorian of Batch ’73.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

The process of baking.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

A bank; a sandbank.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

verb

Meaning 12

To aggregate things together into a batch.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • The contractor batched the purchase orders for the entire month into one statement.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

verb

Meaning 13

To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

Examples

  • The purchase requests for the day were stored in a queue and batched for printing the next morning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

verb

Meaning 14

To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal

Examples

  • I am batching next week when my wife visits her sister.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

noun

Meaning 15

a collection of things or persons to be handled together

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: clutch

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage

Narrower terms: schmeer, schmear, shmear

16

noun

Meaning 16

all the loaves of bread baked at the same time

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage

17

noun

Meaning 17

(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • 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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: 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

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount

Narrower terms: flood, inundation, deluge, torrent, haymow

18

verb

Meaning 18

batch together; assemble or process as a batch

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: group

History

Etymology

From Middle English bach, bache, bahche, from Old English *bæċċ (“something baked”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-West Germanic *bakku, from Proto-Germanic *bakkuz (“baking, baked goods”), cognate with Middle High German becke (“something baked, pastry, baking, bakery”). Related also to Old English bacan (“to bake”), Old English ġebæc (“something baked”), Dutch gebak, German Gebäck, Dutch baksel.

Variant of Bach.

From Middle English bache, bæcche, from Old English bæċ, beċe (“brook, stream”). Doublet of beck. More at beach.

Clipping of bachelor (“unmarried adult male”).

Across languages

Translations

127 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: խմբաքանակ (xmbakʻanak) — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Bulgarian: фурна (furna) — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Catalan: fornada — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Czech: várka — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Dutch: lot — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Finnish: erä — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Finnish: satsi — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • French: fournée — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Galician: fornada — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Galician: cocedura — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • German: Liefermenge — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • German: Stapel — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Hungarian: sütet — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Indonesian: lot — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Irish: baisc — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Italian: infornata — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Japanese: ひと焼き分 (hitoyaki-bun) — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Ligurian: fornâ — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Macedonian: фурна (furna) — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Norwegian: ladning — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Polish: partia — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Portuguese: fornada — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Punjabi: ਪਰਾਗਾ (parāgā) — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Punjabi: پَراگا (parāgā) — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Russian: па́ртия (pártija) — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Russian: по́рция (pórcija) — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Spanish: hornada — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Spanish: tanda — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Spanish: horneada — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Swedish: bak — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Swedish: sats — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Vietnamese: mẻ — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Welsh: pobiad — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Welsh: crasiad — quantity of baked goods made at one time
  • Armenian: խմբաքանակ (xmbakʻanak) — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 批次 (pīcì) — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 批 (pī) — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 批量 (pīliàng) — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Czech: várka — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Czech: šarže — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Czech: vsázka — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Dutch: lot — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Finnish: erä — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Finnish: kertaerä — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • French: lot — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Galician: custribada — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Galician: nicrada — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Galician: tanecada — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Galician: lote — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Galician: partilla — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • German: Partie — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • German: Charge — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Hungarian: adag — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Hungarian: széria — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Hungarian: szállítmány — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Hungarian: sorozat — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Indonesian: lompok — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Indonesian: tumpak — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Italian: lotto — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Polish: wsad — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Polish: partia — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Portuguese: lote — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Russian: па́ртия (pártija) — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Russian: се́рия (sérija) — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Russian: паке́т (pakét) — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Spanish: lote — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Spanish: tanda — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Swedish: sats — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Swedish: batch — quantity of anything produced in one operation
  • Armenian: խմբաքանակ (xmbakʻanak) — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Bulgarian: партида (partida) — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Bulgarian: порция (porcija) — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Czech: dávka — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Czech: skupina — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Finnish: joukko — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Finnish: sarja — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Finnish: nippu — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Finnish: kimppu — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • French: jeu — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Galician: mada — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Galician: runfra — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • German: Partie — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • German: Satz — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Hungarian: csoport — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Hungarian: köteg — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Hungarian: halom — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Hungarian: csomag — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Hungarian: csomó — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Hungarian: rakás — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Indonesian: kloter — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Italian: serie — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Japanese: 束 (taba) — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Japanese: 群れ (mure) — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Māori: rakerake — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Norwegian: porsjon, sending — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Portuguese: lote — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Portuguese: lotes — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Portuguese: jogo — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Portuguese: jogos — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Romanian: șarjă — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Russian: па́ртия (pártija) — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Russian: паке́т (pakét) — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Russian: по́рция (pórcija) — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Spanish: lote — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Spanish: juego — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Swedish: sats — group or collection of things of the same kind
  • Chinese Mandarin: 程序組 /程序组 (chéngxù zǔ) — computing
  • Czech: dávka — computing
  • Esperanto: staplo — computing
  • Esperanto: baĉo — computing
  • Finnish: erä — computing
  • French: lot — computing
  • Indonesian: tumpak — computing
  • Italian: batch — computing
  • Japanese: バッチ (batchi) — computing
  • Korean: 일괄 (ilgwal) — computing
  • Norwegian: batch — computing
  • Persian: بچ (bač) — computing
  • Polish: stos — computing
  • Russian: паке́т (pakét) — computing
  • Russian: бэтч (bɛtč) — computing
  • Russian: бэч (bɛč) — computing
  • Spanish: lote — computing
  • Spanish: procesamiento por lotes — computing
  • Swedish: batch — computing
  • Czech: seskupit — to aggregate things into a batch
  • Czech: zpracovávat po dávkách — (computing) to process input data in a batch
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