type

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English

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Types (character used for printing).

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -aɪp

Etymology

From Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (tupos, “mark, impression, type”), from τύπτω (tuptō, “I strike, beat”).

Noun

type (plural types)

1. A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
   • 2012 March 1, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 128: 

     Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.

   This type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane.

2. An individual considered typical of its class.

   We can't get along: he's just not my type.

   • 2002, Pat Conroy, The Great Santini, page 4:

     "I just peeked out toward the restaurant and there are a lot of Navy types in there. I'd hate for you to get in trouble on your last night in Europe."

3. An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
   • 1872, Mary Rose Godfrey, Loyal, volume 3, page 116:

     Altogether he was the type of low ruffianism — as ill-conditioned a looking brute as ever ginned a hare.

4. (printing, countable) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
   1. (uncountable) Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
   2. (chiefly uncountable) Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.

      The headline was set in bold type.

5. (biology) An individual considered representative of members of its taxonomic group.

   the type of a genus, family, etc.

6. (biology) A blood group.
7. (theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
8. (computing theory) A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.
9. (UK, colloquial) A person of the sort one is usually sexually or romantically attracted to.

   She's my type.

Synonyms

• (grouping based on shared characteristics): category, class, genre, group, kind, sort, tribe
• (computing theory): data type
• (printing): sort
• See also Wikisaurus:class

Derived terms

Derived terms

antitype archetype blood type built-in type composite type cotype ideal type

movable type normal type primitive type structured type typeface type-safe typesetter

typewriter typography typology typology user-defined type

Translations

grouping based on shared characteristics

• Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: نوع (ar) (naw3) m, نمط (ar) (námaT) m
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bengali: প্রকার (bn)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 類型 (cmn), 类型 (cmn) (lèixíng), 種類 (cmn), 种类 (cmn) (zhǒnglèi)

• Czech: typ (cs)
• Danish: type (da) c
• Dutch: type (nl) n
• Estonian: liik (et)
• Finnish: luokka (fi), laji (fi), tyyppi (fi)
• French: type (fr) m, genre (fr) m
• Georgian: ტიპი (ka) (tipi) 
• German: Art (de) f, Typ (de) m
• Hebrew: סוג (he) (suk) m
• Hindi: तरह (hi) (tarah) f
• Icelandic: tegund (is) f, gerð (is) f, kyn (is) n, sort (is) f, týpa (is) f
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 種類 (ja) (しゅるい, shurui), 分類 (ja) (ぶんるい, bunrui)
• Javanese: please add this translation if you can
• Khmer: ប្រភេទ (km) (prɑpʰeit)
• Korean: 형 (ko) (hyeong), 유형 (ko) (yuhyeong), 종류 (ko) (jongnyu) (種類 (ko))

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: جۆر, نه‌وع

• Latvian: veids (lv) m, tips (lv) m
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Luxembourgish: Typ (lb) m
• Malay: jenis (ms)
• Norwegian: type (no) m
• Persian: نوع (fa) (no')
• Polish: rodzaj m
• Portuguese: tipo (pt) m, gênero (pt) m
• Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: fel (ro), gen (ro)
• Russian: тип (ru) (tip) m , вид (ru) (vid) m 
• Scottish Gaelic: gnè (gd) f, seòrsa (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: тип (sh) m, врста (sh) f, разред (sh) m
• Spanish: clase (es) f
• Swedish: typ (sv) c
• Tagalog: uri (tl)
• Telugu: రకము (te) (rakamu), అచ్చు అక్షరము (te) (accu aksharamu)
• Turkish: tip (tr)
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

individual that represents the ideal for its class

• Finnish: perustyyppi (fi)
• German: Typ (de) m
• Latvian: tips (lv) m
• Russian: представитель (ru) (predstavítel') m , образчик (ru) (obrázčik) m 

• Scottish Gaelic: seòrsa (gd) m, gnè (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian: тип (sh) m
• Telugu: వర్గం (te) (vargaM)

block of metal or wood having a raised letter or character on its surface

• Finnish: kirjasin (fi)
• French: caractère (fr) m
• Georgian: შრიფტი (ka) (šrip'ti) 
• German: Letter (de) f, Type (de) f
• Latvian: burtstabiņš (lv) m, litera (lv) f

• Russian: литера (ru) (lítera) f , шрифт (ru) (šrift) m 
• Scottish Gaelic: clò (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: врста (sh) f
• Telugu: చిహ్నము (te) (cihnamu)

biology: individual representative of its taxonomic group

• German: Typus m
• Russian: представитель (ru) (predstavítel') m , образчик (ru) (obrázčik) m 

• Scottish Gaelic: gnè (gd) f
• Telugu: ఛాయ (te) (chaaya), మాదిరి (te) (maadiri)

blood group

• Estonian: vererühm (et)
• Finnish: veriryhmä (fi)
• Latvian: asinsgrupa (lv) f
• Serbo-Croatian: крвна група (sh) f

• Spanish: tipo (es) m
• Swedish: typ (sv) c
• Telugu: శ్రేణి (te) (SrENi)

theology

• Finnish: enne (fi)

• Telugu: ఉదాహరణము (te) (udaaharaNamu), లక్షణము (te) (lakshaNamu)

computing theory

• Asturian: tipu (ast) m
• Bulgarian: тип (bg) (tip) m 
• Catalan: tipus (ca) m
• Czech: typ (cs) m
• Finnish: tyyppi (fi)
• French: type (fr) m
• German: Typ m, Typus m
• Greek: τύπος (el) (týpos) m 
• Icelandic: tag (is) n
• Italian: tipo (it) m
• Japanese: 型 (ja) (かた, kata)

• Korean: 형 (ko) (hyeong)
• Persian: نوع‌ (fa)
• Polish: typ (pl) m
• Russian: тип (ru) (tip) m 
• Serbo-Croatian: тип (sh) m
• Slovak: typ (sk) m
• Slovene: tip (sl) m
• Spanish: tipo (es) m
• Telugu: టైపు చేయు (te) (Taipu cEyu)
• Ukrainian: тип (uk) (typ) m 

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Translations to be checked

• Greek: τύπος (typos) m, είδος (eidos) m
• Japanese: タイプ (taipu)
• Spanish: tipo m

Verb

Hands of a person typing.

type (third-person singular simple present types, present participle typing, simple past and past participle typed)

1. To put text on paper using a typewriter.
2. To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
3. To determine the blood type of.

   The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion.

4. To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of White (Johnson) to this entry?)

5. To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
   • Tennyson

     Let us type them now in our own lives.

Related terms

• typing
• typist
• typo

Descendants

• Esperanto: tajpi

Translations

to use a typewriter

• Arabic: طبع (ar) (Taba`a)
• Catalan: teclejar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 打字 (cmn) (dǎzì), 用打字機打字 (cmn), 用打字机打字 (cmn) (yòng dǎzìjī dǎzì)

• Dutch: typen (nl)
• Esperanto: tajpi (eo)
• Finnish: kirjoittaa koneella
• French: taper à la machine (fr), dactylographier (fr), taper (fr)
• German: tippen (de)
• Hungarian: gépel (hu), legépel (hu)
• Irish: clóscríobh (ga)

• Italian: dattilografare (it)
• Japanese: タイプライターで打つ (ja) (taipuraitā-de utsu)
• Malay: menaip (ms)
• Portuguese: datilografar (pt)
• Russian: писать на машинке (pisát’ na mašínke), печатать (ru) (pečátat’)  impf., напечатать (ru) (napečátat’)  pf.
• Scottish Gaelic: taidhp (gd), clò-sgrìobh (gd)
• Spanish: escribir a máquina, mecanografiar
• Swedish: maskinskriva (sv)
• Vietnamese: đánh máy
• Welsh: teipio (cy)

to enter characters into a computer using keyboard

• Arabic: طبع (ar) (Taba`a)
• Catalan: teclejar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 打字 (cmn) (dǎzì)

• Esperanto: tajpi (eo)
• Finnish: kirjoittaa (fi), näppäillä (fi), näpyttää (fi), naputtaa (fi)
• French: taper (fr), dactylographier (fr)
• German: tippen (de)
• Hebrew: הִקְלִיד (he) (hiklid)
• Hungarian: gépel (hu)

• Irish: clóscríobh (ga)
• Japanese: タイプする (ja) (taipu-suru), 打つ (ja) (うつ, utsu)
• Portuguese: digitar (pt)
• Russian: печатать (ru) (pečátat’)  impf., напечатать (ru) (napečátat’)  pf.
• Scottish Gaelic: taidhp (gd), clò-sgrìobh (gd)
• Spanish: teclear (es)
• Thai: พิมพ์ (th) (pim)
• Vietnamese: gõ (vi)
• Welsh: teipio (cy)

to determine blood group

• Finnish: määrittää (fi) veriryhmä (fi)

• Spanish: identificar el tipo de (es)

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Translations to be checked

• Greek: ⁽¹⁾ δακτυλογραφώ (daktilografo), ⁽²⁾ πληκτρολογώ (pliktrologo), ⁽³⁾ τυπολογώ (tipologo), ομαδοποιώ (omadopio)
• Korean: 타자하다 (tajahada)

• Romanian: tipări (ro)

Anagrams

• pyet

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Dutch

Noun

type n (plural types or typen, diminutive typetje)

1. type

Derived terms

• woningtype

Verb

type

1. singular present subjunctive of typen

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from ecclesiastical Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tip/

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Noun

type m (plural types)

1. type; sort, kind
2. (colloquial) guy, bloke
3. (typography) typeface

Adjective

type (masculine and feminine, plural types)

1. typical, normal, classic
2. (statistics) standard

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Latin

Noun

type

1. vocative singular of typus