| 单词 | batch |
| 释义 | batch (once / 1548 pages) nv A batch is a completed group, collection, or quantity of something, especially something that's just been made. You might, for example, bake a batch of cookies to take to your new neighbor. A company that makes soap might deliver a batch, loaded on a truck, to a new store in Vermont, and if you manage a bakery you might declare, "That's it! This is our last batch of gingerbread until next year!" In computer lingo, a batch is, similarly, a group or collection of records. The Old English root, bæcce, means "something baked," from bacan, "bake." WORD FAMILYbatch: batched, batches, batching USAGE EXAMPLESA first batch of factories and shops will need to close and hand in their licenses by March 31, 2017. Reuters(Dec 30, 2016) In another bout of this archaic ritual, Russia closing Moscow’s Anglo-American school and expelling a batch of Americans from Moscow. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) Supermarket chain Aldi is recalling a king prawn product after two batches were found to contain salmonella. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) 1n a collection of things or persons to be handled together Syn|Hypo|Hyper clutch schmear, schmeer, shmear (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection several things grouped together or considered as a whole 2n all the loaves of bread baked at the same time Hyper accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection several things grouped together or considered as a whole 3n (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent a batch of letters Syn|Hypo|Hyper 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 deluge, flood, inundation, torrent an overwhelming number or amount haymowa mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude 4v batch together; assemble or process as a batch Hyper group arrange into a group or groups |
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