BATCHとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 bach, bache, bahche, from 古期英語 *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 古期英語 bacan (“to bake”), 古期英語 ġebæc (“something baked”), Dutch gebak, German Gebäck, Dutch baksel.

名詞

batch (plural batches)

1. The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.

   We made a batch of cookies to take to the party.

2. (by extension) A quantity of anything produced at one operation.

   Synonyms: pressing, run, lot

   We poured a bucket of water in at the top, and the ice-maker dispensed a batch of ice-cubes at the bottom.

3. A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.

   Synonyms: group, lot

   • c. 1710-1720, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Epistle to Lord Hervey on the King's Birthday

     a new batch of Lords

4. (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.

5. (UK, dialect, Midlands) A bread roll.
6. (Philippines) A graduating class; school class.

   She was the valedictorian of Batch ’73.

7. (obsolete) The process of baking.
   • 1551, T. Wilson, Logike 42 b:

     Except the baker doe his part also in the batch.

派生語

動詞

batch (third-person singular simple present batches, present participle batching, simple past and past participle batched)

1. (transitive) To aggregate things together into a batch.

   The contractor batched the purchase orders for the entire month into one statement.

2. (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.

派生語

形容詞

batch (not comparable)

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.

反意語

• continuous

派生語

• batch mode
• batch process

参照

• “batch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN

語源 2

From 中期英語 bache, bæcche, from 古期英語 bæċ, beċe (“brook, stream”). Doublet of beck. More at beach.

別の表記

• baiche (obsolete)

名詞

batch (plural batches)

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

語源 3

Clipping of bachelor (“unmarried adult male”).

動詞

batch (third-person singular simple present batches, present participle batching, simple past and past participle batched)

1. (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.

使用する際の注意点

• Often with it: "I usually batch it three nights a week when she calls on her out-of-town accounts."