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batch

DEFINITIONS OF: batch

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n a collection of things or persons to be handled together

Synonyms:
clutch
Types:
schmear, schmeer, shmear
(Yiddish) a batch of things that go together
Type of:
accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection
several things grouped together or considered as a whole

n all the loaves of bread baked at the same time

Type of:
accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection
several things grouped together or considered as a whole

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

“a batch of letters”
Synonyms:
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
Types:
deluge, flood, inundation, torrent
an overwhelming number or amount
haymow
a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation
Type of:
large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity
an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude

v batch together; assemble or process as a batch

Type of:
group
arrange into a group or groups
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