batch
/bæt͡ʃ/ noun A2- The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time. · We made a batch of cookies to take to the party.
- 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.
- A set of data to be processed at one time. · The system throttled itself to batches of 50 requests at a time to keep the thread count under control.
- A graduating class; school class. · She was the valedictorian of Batch ’73.
Plural batches
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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A reference to his books showed that hundreds of casts had been taken from a marble copy of Devine’s head of Napoleon, but that the three which had been sent to Morse Hudson a year or so before had been half of a batch of six, the other three being sent to Harding Brothers, of Kensington.
Her first batch of empanadas fell apart in the oven, and the second batch had almost no flavor.
Every batch tastes slightly different, depending on what's in bloom.
Bazalgette also insisted on exceptionally rigorous quality control, ensuring that every batch of cement was thoroughly tested before being utilized.
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