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Botched vs Batched - What's the difference?

botched | batched |

As verbs the difference between botched and batched

is that botched is past tense of botch while batched is past tense of batch.

As an adjective botched

is clumsily made or repaired in an unacceptable or incompetent manner.

botched

English

Verb

(head)
  • (botch)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • clumsily made or repaired in an unacceptable or incompetent manner.

    • See also

    * bungled

    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." ----