Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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batch

/bæt͡ʃ/ noun, verb, adjective, proper noun

Forms batches batching batched baiche

  1. noun The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time. “We made a batch of cookies to take to the party.”
  2. 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.”
  3. noun (collective) A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
  4. noun (rare, collective) A group of bakers.
  5. noun (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.”
  6. noun (India, Philippines) A graduating class; school class. “She was the valedictorian of Batch ’73.”
  7. noun (UK, dialect, Midlands) A bread roll.
  8. noun (obsolete) The process of baking.
  9. verb (transitive) To aggregate things together into a batch. “The contractor batched the purchase orders for the entire month into one statement.”
  10. verb (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.”
  11. adjective 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.”
  12. noun A bank; a sandbank.
  13. noun A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.
  14. 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.”
  15. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

pressing run lot group deal flock good deal great deal hatful heap mass mess mickle mint mountain muckle passel peck pile plenty pot quite a little raft sight slew spate stack tidy sum wad clutch

Antonyms

continuous

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.

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

Clipping of bachelor (“unmarried adult male”).

Variant of Bach.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The quantity of bread baked at one time.
  2. noun A quantity of anything produced at one operation; a group or collection of persons or things of the same kind; as, a batch of letters; the next batch of business. "A new batch of Lords." Lady M. W. Montagu.

Etymology [OE. bache, bacche, fr. AS. bacan to bake; cf. G. gebäck and D. baksel. See Bake, v. t.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “batch”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details