BATCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does batch mean? 

• BATCH (noun)
  The noun BATCH has 3 senses:

1. all the loaves of bread baked at the same time

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

3. a collection of things or persons to be handled together

  Familiarity information: BATCH used as a noun is uncommon.

• BATCH (verb)
  The verb BATCH has 1 sense:

1. batch together; assemble or process as a batch

  Familiarity information: BATCH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BATCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

All the loaves of bread baked at the same time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("batch" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

a wad of money

Hypernyms ("batch" is a kind of...):

large indefinite amount; large indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "batch"):

deluge; flood; inundation; torrent (an overwhelming number or amount)

haymow (a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A collection of things or persons to be handled together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

batch; clutch

Hypernyms ("batch" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "batch"):

schmear; schmeer; shmear ((Yiddish) a batch of things that go together)

Derivation:

batch (batch together; assemble or process as a batch)

• BATCH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they batch    ... he / she / it batches   
Past simple: batched   
Past participle: batched   
-ing form: batching   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Batch together; assemble or process as a batch

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "batch" is one way to...):

group (arrange into a group or groups)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

batch (a collection of things or persons to be handled together)

 Context examples 

Another batch of 2017 Kepler data was recently uploaded to Exoplanet Explorers for citizen scientists to peer through.

(Multi-planet System Found Through Crowdsourcing, NASA)

In a new investigation, crew members of the International Space Station will grow two batches of worms: one in microgravity and one in a centrifuge, allowing the worms to experience simulated gravity.

(Roundworms have the Right Stuff, NASA)

Our numbers had been reinforced during the night by a fresh batch of natives from the caves, and we may have been four or five hundred strong when we made our advance.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A distinctive alpha-numeric identification code assigned by the manufacturer or distributor to a specific quantity of manufactured material or product within a batch.

(Lot Number, NCI Thesaurus)

The production identifier is the lot or batch number.

(Lot or Batch Number Production Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)

A date determined by appropriate stability testing of the medical product lot, batch, or item, after which the product may not meet the appropriate regulatory agencies requirements.

(Medical Product Expiration Date, NCI Thesaurus)

The device is managed by lot or batch number.

(Lot or Batch Number Production Identifier, Food and Drug Administration)

In the newly validated batch of planets, nearly 550 could be rocky planets like Earth based on size.

(Kepler Mission Announces Largest Collection of Planets Ever Discovered, NASA)

The drug company Sanofi produced the last batch of its effective anti-venom in 2014.

(Snakebite resolution set for Health Assembly approval, SciDev.Net)

Fresh batches of Hudson Bay dogs were to take the places of those worthless for the trail.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)