batch
Pronunciation: [bæʧ]
Word
Context: "cooking"
(noun) a batch is a group of things that are made or prepared at the same time. Imagine you bake cookies, and you make a whole tray of them together; that's a batch of cookies.
Example
I made a batch of delicious muffins for breakfast this morning.
Example
I didn’t bake a single batch of cookies this week.
Example
How many cookies are in your batch?
Context: "manufacturing"
(noun) a batch can also mean a set of products or items made together in one go. Like when a factory produces toys, all the toys made at the same time are called a batch.
Example
The factory produced a batch of new toys for the holiday season.
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That batch of toys had some defects and had to be reworked.
Example
When will the next batch of toys be ready?
Context: "computing"
(verb) to batch means to combine things into groups for processing them at the same time, especially in computers. It’s like organizing your homework into stacks so you can do them all at once instead of one by one.
Example
We decided to batch the images so we could edit them all together.
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I didn't batch my files, so it took a long time to process each one separately.
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Can we batch the data to improve the speed of our work?
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