BATCH
What does "BATCH" mean?
A quantity of things made or processed together as one group.
Meanings
- A set of items produced or dealt with at the same time. She pulled a fresh batch of cookies from the oven.
- In computing, a group of jobs or data processed together without manual intervention. The reports run overnight as a single batch job. technical
- To group items together for processing at once. Batch your errands to save trips across town.
Did you know?
- 'Batch' literally meant 'a baking': it shares a root with 'bake' and originally named the loaves you could fit in one oven-load - which is why we still say a 'batch of cookies.'
Word origin
From Middle English 'bache', from Old English 'bæcce' related to 'bacan' (to bake); a batch was originally the amount of bread baked at one time.
Remember it
BATCH starts like BAKE for a reason - a batch was once exactly one oven's worth of bread.
A little poem
One oven, one heat-
what rises together cools
together, then leaves.
haiku
Wordplay
- I tried to do my work in batches, but the bakery I copied the idea from got very confused by my spreadsheets.
What it teaches
Things made in one batch share more than a name - same heat, same timing, same flaws baked in together.
Quick facts
What does BATCH mean?
A quantity of things made or processed together as one group.
Is BATCH a valid word?
Yes — BATCH is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is BATCH?
BATCH has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does BATCH come from?
From Middle English 'bache', from Old English 'bæcce' related to 'bacan' (to bake); a batch was originally the amount of bread baked at one time.
What can BATCH teach us?
Things made in one batch share more than a name - same heat, same timing, same flaws baked in together.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.