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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun batch has 3 senses
- batch(n = noun.group) Array - all the loaves of bread baked at the same time; Array is a kind of accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection
- batch(n = noun.quantity) 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 - (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" is a kind of large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity
- batch(n = noun.group) clutch - a collection of things or persons to be handled together; Array is a kind of accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection
has particulars: deluge, flood, inundation, torrent, haymow
has particulars: schmear, schmeer, shmear
Derived form verb batch1
Verb batch has 1 sense
- batch(v = verb.contact) Array - batch together; assemble or process as a batch; Array is one way to group
Derived form noun batch3
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
- The quantity of bread baked at one time. [1913 Webster]
- 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. Lady M. W. Montagu. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
batch, n. & v.
--n.
1 a number of things or persons forming a group or dealt with together.
2 an instalment (have sent off the latest batch).
3 the loaves produced at one baking.
4 (attrib.) using or dealt with in batches, not as a continuous flow (batch production).
5 Computing a group of records processed as a single unit.
--v.tr. arrange or deal with in batches.
--n.
1 a number of things or persons forming a group or dealt with together.
2 an instalment (have sent off the latest batch).
3 the loaves produced at one baking.
4 (attrib.) using or dealt with in batches, not as a continuous flow (batch production).
5 Computing a group of records processed as a single unit.
--v.tr. arrange or deal with in batches.
Etymology
ME f. OE b{aelig}cce f. bacan BAKE
THESAURUS
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, wispROGET THESAURUS
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Quantity
N quantity, magnitude, size, amplitude, magnitude, mass, amount, sum, quantum, measure, substance, strength, force, mathematics, mathesis, category, general conception, universal predicament, armful, handful, mouthful, spoonful, capful, stock, batch, lot, dose, yaffle, quantitative, some, any, aught, more or less, a few, to the tune of, all of, a full, the sum of, fully, exactly, precisely.Assemblage
N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.
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