batchとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English bache, bacche, from 古期英語 *bæċe, *bæċċe (“baking; something baked”), from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“baking”), related to bacan (“to bake”). Compare German Gebäck, Dutch gebak, baksel.

名詞

batch (複数形 batches)

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

   Synonym: recipe

   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

   • (Can we date this quote by Lady M. W. Montagu かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     a new batch of Lords

4. (computing) A set of data to be processed with one execution of a program.

   The system throttled itself to batches of 50 requests at a time to keep the thread count under control.

5. (Britain, dialect, Midlands) A bread roll.
6. (Philippines) A graduating 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.

動詞

batch (三人称単数 現在形 batches, 現在分詞 batching, 過去形および過去分詞形 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.

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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN

語源 2

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

別の表記

• baiche (廃れた用法)

名詞

batch (複数形 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

from an abbreviation of the pronunciation of bachelor (“unmarried adult male”)

動詞

batch (三人称単数 現在形 batches, 現在分詞 batching, 過去形および過去分詞形 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."