'Batch' definitions:
Definition of 'batch'
(from WordNet)
noun
All the loaves of bread baked at the same time
noun
(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]
noun
A collection of things or persons to be handled together [syn: batch, clutch]
verb
Batch together; assemble or process as a batch
Definition of 'Batch'
From: GCIDE
- Batch \Batch\, n. [OE. bache, bacche, fr. AS. bacan to bake; cf. G. geb[aum]ck and D. baksel. See Bake, v. t.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The quantity of bread baked at one time. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'batch'
From: 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