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Vinony

batch

noun

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verb

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /bæt͡ʃ/

adj

Etymology: From Middle English bach, bache, bahche, from Old English *bæċċ (“something baked”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-West Germanic *bakku, from Proto-Germanic *bakkuz (“baking, baked goods”), cognate with Middle High German becke (“something baked, pastry, baking, bakery”). Related also to Old English bacan (“to bake”), Old English ġebæc (“something baked”), Dutch gebak, German Gebäck, Dutch baksel.

  1. Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.

    “The plant had two batch assembly lines for packaging, as well as a continuous feed production line.”

name

Etymology: Variant of Bach.

  1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English bache, bæcche, from Old English bæċ, beċe (“brook, stream”). Doublet of beck. More at beach.

  1. A bank; a sandbank.
  2. A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.

verb

Etymology: Clipping of bachelor (“unmarried adult male”).

  1. To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.

    “I am batching next week when my wife visits her sister.”