batch

batch
    n 1: all the loaves of bread baked at the same time
    2: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;
       "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money";
       "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the
       winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost
       plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn:
       {batch}, {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}]
    3: a collection of things or persons to be handled together
       [syn: {batch}, {clutch}]
    v 1: batch together; assemble or process as a batch
    

Batch \Batch\, n. [OE. bache, bacche, fr. AS. bacan to bake; cf.
   G. geb[aum]ck and D. baksel. See {Bake}, v. t.]
   [1913 Webster]
   1. The quantity of bread baked at one time.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A quantity of anything produced at one operation; a group
      or collection of persons or things of the same kind; as, a
      batch of letters; the next batch of business. "A new batch
      of Lords." --Lady M. W. Montagu.
      [1913 Webster]
    

batch
 adj.

   1. Non-interactive. Hackers use this somewhat more loosely than the
   traditional technical definitions justify; in particular, switches on
   a normally interactive program that prepare it to receive
   non-interactive command input are often referred to as batch mode
   switches. A batch file is a series of instructions written to be
   handed to an interactive program running in batch mode.

   2. Performance of dreary tasks all at one sitting. "I finally sat down
   in batch mode and wrote out checks for all those bills; I guess
   they'll turn the electricity back on next week..."

   3. batching up: Accumulation of a number of small tasks that can be
   lumped together for greater efficiency. "I'm batching up those letters
   to send sometime" "I'm batching up bottles to take to the recycling
   center."
    

85 Moby Thesaurus words for "batch":
      amount, array, assortment, block, budget, bulk, bunch, bundle,
      chunk, clod, clump, cluster, clutch, collection, considerable,
      copse, count, crop, deal, dose, gob, gobs, good deal, great deal,
      group, grouping, groupment, grove, hassock, heap, heaps, hunk,
      knot, large amount, lashings, loads, loaf, lot, lots, lump, make,
      making, mass, measure, mess, mint, nugget, number, oodles, pack,
      parcel, part, pat, peck, pile, piles, portion, pot, quantity,
      quite a little, raft, rafts, ration, run, scads, set, shock, sight,
      slew, slews, small amount, spate, stack, stacks, stook, sum,
      thicket, tidy sum, tuft, tussock, volume, wad, wads, whole slew,
      wisp