batch vs windrow

batch

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

  • A graduating class; school class. 

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

  • A set of data to be processed at one time. 

  • A bank; a sandbank. 

  • A quantity of anything produced at one operation. 

  • A bread roll. 

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

verb
  • To aggregate things together into a batch. 

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

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

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

windrow

noun
  • A row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field. 

  • The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth onto other land to improve it. 

  • A line of snow left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s blade. 

  • A ridge or berm at a perimeter 

  • A long snowbank along the side of a road. 

  • A line of leaves etc heaped up by the wind. 

  • A similar streak of seaweed etc on the surface of the sea formed by Langmuir circulation. 

  • A line of gravel left behind by the edge of a grader’s blade. 

verb
  • To arrange (e.g. new-made hay) in lines or windrows. 

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