The difference between Batch and Group

When used as nouns, batch means the quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time, whereas group means a number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

When used as verbs, batch means to aggregate things together into a batch, whereas group means to put together to form a group.

Batch is also adjective with the meaning: of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.

check bellow for the other definitions of Batch and Group

  1. Batch as a noun:

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

    Examples:

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

  2. Batch as a noun:

    A quantity of anything produced at one operation.

    Examples:

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

  3. Batch as a noun:

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

  4. Batch as a noun (computing):

    A set of data to be processed with one execution of a program.

    Examples:

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

  5. Batch as a noun (UK, dialect, Midlands):

    A bread roll.

  6. Batch as a noun (Philippines):

    A graduating class.

    Examples:

    "She was the valedictorian of Batch '73."

  7. Batch as a noun (obsolete):

    The process of baking.

  1. Batch as a verb (transitive):

    To aggregate things together into a batch.

    Examples:

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

  2. Batch as a verb (transitive, computing):

    To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.

    Examples:

    "The purchase requests for the day were stored in a queue and batched for printing the next morning."

  1. Batch as an adjective:

    Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.

    Examples:

    "The plant had two batch assembly lines for packaging, as well as a continuous feed production line."

  1. Batch as a noun:

    A bank; a sandbank.

  2. Batch as a noun:

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

  1. Batch as a verb (informal):

    To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.

    Examples:

    "I am batching next week when my wife visits her sister."

  1. Group as a noun:

    A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

    Examples:

    "there is a group of houses behind the hill; he left town to join a Communist group'"

    "A group of people gathered in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals."

  2. Group as a noun (group theory):

    A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.

  3. Group as a noun (geometry, archaic):

    An effective divisor on a curve.

  4. Group as a noun:

    A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.

    Examples:

    "Did you see the new jazz group?"

  5. Group as a noun (astronomy):

    A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.

  6. Group as a noun (chemistry):

    A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.

  7. Group as a noun (chemistry):

    A functional group.

    Examples:

    "Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group."

  8. Group as a noun (sociology):

    A subset of a culture or of a society.

  9. Group as a noun (military):

    An air force formation.

  10. Group as a noun (geology):

    A collection of formations or rock strata.

  11. Group as a noun (computing):

    A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.

  12. Group as a noun:

    An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.

  13. Group as a noun (music):

    A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.

  14. Group as a noun (sports):

    A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.

  15. Group as a noun (business):

    A commercial organization.

  1. Group as a verb (transitive):

    To put together to form a group.

    Examples:

    "group the dogs by hair colour"

  2. Group as a verb (intransitive):

    To come together to form a group.

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