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Batched vs Hatched - What's the difference?

batched | hatched |

As verbs the difference between batched and hatched

is that batched is past tense of batch while hatched is past tense of hatch.

batched

English

Verb

(head)
  • (batch)

    • batch

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) bache, .

    Alternative forms

    *

    Noun

    (batches)
  • A bank; a sandbank.
  • A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (es)
  • The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
    • We made a batch of cookies to take to the party.
  • A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
    • We poured a bucket of water in top, and the ice maker spit out a batch of icecubes at the bottom.
  • A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
  • * A new batch of Lords. --Lady M. W. Montagu.
  • (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.
  • (UK, dialect, Midlands) A bread roll.
  • (Philippines) A graduating class.
    • She was the valedictorian of Batch '73.
    Synonyms
    * (quantity of baked goods) recipe * (anything produced in one operation) pressing, run, lot * (group of things of the same kind) group, lot

    Verb

  • To aggregate things together into a batch.
    • The contractor batched the purchase orders for the entire month into one statement.
  • (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.

    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.
    Antonyms
    * continuous
    Derived terms
    * batch mode * batch process

    References

    * * 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192830988

    Etymology 3

    from an abbreviation of the pronunciation of

    Verb

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

    hatched

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (hatch)

    • hatch

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) hache, from (etyl) ‘hedge’. More at hedge.

    Noun

    (es)
  • A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
  • A trapdoor.
  • An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A .
    • The cook passed the dishes through the serving hatch .
  • A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
  • An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine.
  • (slang) A gullet.
  • A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
  • A floodgate; a sluice gate.
    • (Ainsworth)
  • (Scotland) A bedstead.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • (mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
    • Derived terms
    * down the hatch * hatchwise

    Verb

  • To close with a hatch or hatches.
  • * Shakespeare
    • 'Twere not amiss to keep our door hatched .

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) hacchen ‘to propagate’, cognate with German hecken ‘to breed, spawn’, Danish ; akin to Latvian kakale ‘penis’.Wolfgang Pfeifer, ed., Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen , s.v. “hecken” (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbucher Vertrag, 2005).

    Verb

    (es)
  • (of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
  • (of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
  • To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
  • To devise.
    • to hatch''' a plan or a plot; to '''hatch mischief or heresy
    Derived terms
    * hatchling
    References

    Noun

    (head)
  • The act of hatching.
  • Development; disclosure; discovery.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
    • These pullets are from an April hatch .
  • The phenomenon, lasting 1-2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
  • * Edward R. Hewitt, quoted in 1947', Charles K. Fox, ''Redistribution of the Green Drake'', '''1997 , Norm Shires, Jim Gilford (editors), ''Limestone Legends , page 104,
    • The Willowemoc above Livington Manor had the largest mayfly hatch I ever knew about fifty years ago.
  • * 2004 , Ed Engle, Fishing Small Flies , page 118,
    • The major application of the parachute is for mayfly hatches', but it's also useful for midge ' hatches .
  • * 2007 , John Shewey, On the Fly Guide to the Northwest , page 70,
    • Many years the mayfly hatch' begins by the time the lake opens in April. Otherwise, expect strong '''hatches''' by mid-May. The ' hatches continue through midsummer.
  • (informal) A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper) — compare the phrase "hatched, matched, and dispatched."

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl)

    Verb

    (es)
  • To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch).
  • * Dryden
    • Those hatching strokes of the pencil.
  • * Chapman
    • Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched .
  • (obsolete) To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • His weapon hatched in blood.

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