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batch (iou)



batch noun1 & verb1. L15.

A. noun.
The process of baking. L15-M16.
A baking; the quantity of bread produced at one baking. Also = batch loaf below. L15.
The quantity of flour or dough used for one baking. Long arch. M16.
Coverdale A lytle leauen sowreth the whole batche, wherwith it is myngled.
The sort or lot to which a thing belongs by origin. L16-E18.
Milton This worthy Motto, No Bishop, no King is of the same batch, and infanted out of the same feares.
A quantity produced at one operation. E18.
M. E. Braddon That last batch of soup was excellent.
A number of things or persons coming at once and treated as a set; (less commonly) a quantity of a thing coming at one time, an instalment. L18.
T. Hood I am not going to favour you with a batch of politics. Saki Several packages, evidently an early batch of Christmas presents. G. Gorer Most of the questions were arranged in batches of 4 or 5 dealing with the same subject. A. Schlee The next batch of tourists was arriving at the head of the path.
Comb.: batch loaf a loaf baked close to others in a batch (and so not completely crusted at the sides). batch process: treating materials in batches, not continuously; batch processing (a) the processing of raw materials in batches in an industrial process; (b) Computing the processing of previously collected batches of data, jobs, etc., esp. offline without user intervention; batch production = batch process above.
b. verb trans. Treat or arrange in batches. L19.