batch English · revision 15039

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /bætʃ/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|bache|t=process of baking, a baking]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(MWU 2024)^(Hoad 1986) probably from an unrecorded [[ang|*bæcce|t=something baked]] (compare [[m|ang|gebæc]]),^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(Hoad 1986) from [[m|ang|bacan|t=to bake]] (see [[bake]]).^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986)^(MWU 2024) The spelling batch developed in the 16th century to reflect the pronunciation.^(Barnhart 1988) Batch is to bake as [[watch]] is to wake and [[match]] is to make.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The process of baking: 1440, a sense now obsolete.^(OED 1989) A baking, the bread made at one baking, is from 1461–83 in the OED, probably before 1475 in Barnhart.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The quantity of corn sent to the mill at one time is a dialect sense of 1549.^(OED 1989) The general sense, a set of similar things, is from the 1590s,^(Etymonline) and a quantity produced at one operation, as a brewing, from 1713.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) A number of people or things dealt with together is from 1833.^(OED 1989) In computing a batch is a set of jobs processed in one run.^(AHD)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1440 – the process of baking.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1461–83 – a baking of bread.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1590s – a set, a lot.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1713 – a quantity made at one operation.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1833 – a group dealt with together.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A group or set of similar people or things, especially arriving or dealt with together.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # The amount of bread or cakes produced at one baking.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # The quantity produced or needed for one operation.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(computing)'' A set of data or jobs processed in a single run.^(AHD)

+ # A tall loaf baked as part of a batch.^(Collins 2023)

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+ ===Verb===

+ # To gather or process as a batch.^(AHD)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[batcher]]

+ * [[batch processing]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[bake]]

+ * [[baker]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ In Herefordshire dialect batch was also the palm of the hand.^(Wright 1898)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}