type
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[edit] English
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- Rhymes: -aɪp
[edit] Etymology
From Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (tupos, “mark, impression, type”), from τύπτω (tuptō, “I strike, beat”).
[edit] Noun
type (plural types)
- A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
- This type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane.
- An individual considered typical of its class.
- 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."
- 2002, Pat Conroy, The Great Santini, page 4:
- 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.
- 1872, Mary Rose Godfrey, Loyal, volume 3, page 116:
- (printing, countable) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
- (uncountable) Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
- (chiefly uncountable) Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.
- The headline was set in bold type.
- (biology) An individual considered representative of members of its taxonomic group.
- the type of a genus, family, etc.
- (biology) A blood group.
- (theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
- (computing theory) A tag attached to variables and values used in determining what values may be assigned to what variables.
[edit] Synonyms
- (grouping based on shared characteristics): category, class, genre, group, kind, sort, tribe
- (computing theory): data type
- (printing): sort
- See also Wikisaurus:class
[edit] Derived terms
- blood type
- cotype
- typology
- movable type
- typeface
- typesetter
- typewriter
- typography
- antitype
- archetype
- typology
- ideal type
- normal type
- built-in type
- primitive type
- composite type
- structured type
- type-safe
[edit] Translations
grouping based on shared characteristics
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individual that represents the ideal for its class
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block of metal or wood having a raised letter or character on its surface
biology: individual representative of its taxonomic group
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blood group
computing theory
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[edit] Verb
type (third-person singular simple present types, present participle typing, simple past and past participle typed)
- To put text on paper using a typewriter.
- To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
- To determine the blood type.
- The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion.
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- Esperanto: tajpi
[edit] Translations
to use a typewriter
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to enter characters into a computer using keyboard
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[edit] Noun
type n. (plural types or typen, diminutive typetje)
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type
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[edit] Etymology
Borrowed from ecclesiastical Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος.
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[edit] Noun
type m. (plural types)
- type; sort, kind
- (colloquial) guy, bloke
- (typography) typeface
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[edit] Latin
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type
- vocative singular of typus
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