batch

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. An amount produced at one baking: a batch of cookies.
2. n. A quantity required for or produced as the result of one operation: made a batch of cookie dough; mixed a batch of cement.
3. n. A group of persons or things: a batch of tourists; a whole new batch of problems.
4. n. Computer Science A set of data or jobs to be processed in a single program run.
5. v. To assemble or process as a batch.
6. n. Informal Variant of bach.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A quantity produced at one operation; specifically, the quantity of bread made at one baking.
2. n. The quantity of material prepared or required for one operation. Specifically— In glass-making, the frit ready for the glass-pot. See frit. The quantity of flour or dough to be used at one baking.
3. n. An aggregation of individuals or articles similar to each other; especially, a number or aggregation received, despatched, etc., at one time: as, a batch of letters; a batch of prisoners.
4. n. Kind, sort, or lot.
5. To mass; bring together in a batch or the quantity required.
6. n. A bank; a sandbank.
7. n. A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the valley in which a stream flows: especially in local English names.
8. To protect (the bank of a river) by facing it with stones, so as to prevent the water from eating into it.
9. n. A vessel used in brewing.

Wiktionary

1. v. informal To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.
2. n. A bank; a sandbank.
3. n. A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.
4. n. The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
5. n. A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
6. n. A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
7. n. computing A set of data to be processed with one execution of a program.
8. n. UK, dialect A bread roll.
9. v. To aggregate things together into a batch.
10. v. computing To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.
11. adj. Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The quantity of bread baked at one time.
2. n. A quantity of anything produced at one operation; a group or collection of persons or things of the same kind.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. batch together; assemble or process as a batch
2. n. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
3. n. a collection of things or persons to be handled together
4. n. all the loaves of bread baked at the same time