noun

• (by extension) A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
  "We poured a bucket of water in at the top, and the ice-maker dispensed a batch of ice-cubes at the bottom."
• (computing) A set of data to be processed at one time.
  "The system throttled itself to batches of 50 requests at a time to keep the thread count under control."
• (UK, dialect, Midlands) A bread roll.
• (Philippines) A graduating class; school class.
  "She was the valedictorian of Batch ’73."

verb

• (transitive) To aggregate things together into a batch.
  "The contractor batched the purchase orders for the entire month into one statement."
• (transitive, computing) To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.
  "The purchase requests for the day were stored in a queue and batched for printing the next morning."

verb

• (informal) 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."