A Quick and Simple Dictionary

batch

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