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BATCH

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A collection of things or persons to be handled together

Synonyms:

batch; clutch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("batch" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "batch"):

schmear; schmeer; shmear ((Yiddish) a batch of things that go together)

Derivation:

batch (batch together; assemble or process as a batch)

Sense 2

Meaning:

All the loaves of bread baked at the same time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("batch" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent

Example:

a wad of money

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("batch" is a kind of...):

large indefinite amount; large indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "batch"):

deluge; flood; inundation; torrent (an overwhelming number or amount)

haymow (a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Batch together; assemble or process as a batch

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "batch" is one way to...):

group (arrange into a group or groups)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

batch (a collection of things or persons to be handled together)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Researchers also irradiated each batch of mosquitoes to sterilise any females left in the mix, because releasing Wolbachia-infected females has been shown to undermine the technique.

(Mosquitos rendered infertile by biological engineering, SciDev.Net)

For a moment I thought, and as my eyes ranged the room, unconsciously looking for something or some opportunity to aid me, they lit on a great batch of typewriting on the table.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Wolf Larsen took the distribution of the whisky off my hands, and the bottles began to make their appearance while I worked over the fresh batch of wounded men in the forecastle.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

An alphanumeric string used to identify a particular batch of package.

(Package Lot Number, NCI Thesaurus)

A unique numeric or alphanumeric code that contains the device identifier and a production identifier such as the lot or batch number, the serial number and/or expiration date.

(FDA Unique Device Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)

Sometimes her family were invited in to help eat up a too bounteous feast of successes, or Lotty would be privately dispatched with a batch of failures, which were to be concealed from all eyes in the convenient stomachs of the little Hummels.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

As part of the CGMP regulations, the FDA requires that drug products bear an expiration date determined by appropriate stability testing (21 CFR 211.137 and 211.166), after which the product may not meet the appropriate regulatory agencies requirements.. The FDA defines an expiration date as the date placed on the container/labels of a drug product designating the time during which a batch of the product is expected to remain within the approved shelf life specifications if stored under defined conditions, and after which it may not be used.

(Pharmaceutical Product Expiration Date, NCI Thesaurus)

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.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We were at the height of our enjoyment, and were all busily engaged, in our several departments, endeavouring to bring the last batch of slices to a state of perfection that should crown the feast, when I was aware of a strange presence in the room, and my eyes encountered those of the staid Littimer, standing hat in hand before me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A UDI is a unique numeric or alphanumeric code that includes a device identifier, which is specific to a device model, and a production identifier, which includes the current production information for that specific device, such as the lot or batch number, the serial number and/or expiration date.

(FDA Unique Device Identifier, Food and Drug Administration/CDISC)