batch

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun An amount produced at one baking.
• noun A quantity required for or produced as the result of one operation.
• noun A group of persons or things.
• noun Computers A set of data or jobs to be processed in a single program run.
• transitive verb To assemble or process as a batch.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A quantity produced at one operation; specifically, the quantity of bread made at one baking.
• noun The quantity of material prepared or required for one operation. Specifically—
• noun An aggregation of individuals or articles similar to each other; especially, a number or aggregation received, despatched, etc., at one time: as, a batch of letters; a batch of prisoners.
• noun Kind, sort, or lot.
• To protect (the bank of a river) by facing it with stones, so as to prevent the water from eating into it.
• noun A vessel used in brewing.
• noun A bank; a sandbank.
• noun A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the valley in which a stream flows: especially in local English names.
• To mass; bring together in a batch or the quantity required.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The quantity of bread baked at one time.
• noun A quantity of anything produced at one operation; a group or collection of persons or things of the same kind.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A bank; a sandbank.
• noun A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.
• verb informal To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.
• noun The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
• noun A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
• noun A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
• noun computing A set of data to be processed with one execution of a program.
• noun UK, dialect A bread roll.
• verb To aggregate things together into a batch.
• verb computing To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.
• adjective Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb batch together; assemble or process as a batch
• noun (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
• noun a collection of things or persons to be handled together
• noun all the loaves of bread baked at the same time