BATCHES

The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.

"We made a batch of cookies to take to the party."

(by extension) A quantity of anything produced at one operation.

"We poured a bucket of water in at the top, and the ice-maker dispensed a batch of ice-cubes at the bottom."

A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.

To aggregate things together into a batch.

"The contractor batched the purchase orders for the entire month into one statement."

To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.

"The purchase requests for the day were stored in a queue and batched for printing the next morning."

A bank; a sandbank.

A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.

To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.

"I am batching next week when my wife visits her sister."