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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BATCH, n. [from bake.]
1. The quantity of bread baked at one time; a baking of bread.
2. Any quantity of a thing made at once, or so united as to have like qualities.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English bache; akin to Old English bacan to bake Date: 15th century 1. the quantity baked at one time ; baking 2. a. the quantity of material prepared or required for one operation; specifically a mixture of raw materials ready for fusion into glass b. the quantity produced at one operation c. a group of jobs (as programs) that are submitted for processing on a computer and whose results are obtained at a later time <batch processing> — compare time-sharing 3. a quantity (as of persons or things) considered as a group II. transitive verb Date: 1876 to bring together or process as a batch • batcher noun III. variant of bach

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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. Etymology: ME f. OE bæcce f. bacan BAKE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(batches) A batch of things or people is a group of things or people of the same kind, especially a group that is dealt with at the same time or is sent to a particular place at the same time. ...the current batch of trainee priests... She brought a large batch of newspaper cuttings... N-COUNT: oft N of n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Quantity (as of bread, ore, etc., treated at one time), amount, lot, collection, crowd.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

We had a pretty batch of it last night; we had a hearty dose of liquor. Batch originally means the whole quantity of bread baked at one time in an oven.

Moby Thesaurus

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