type

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Related terms 1.4.2 Translations 1.5 Anagrams 2 Dutch 2.1 Noun 2.1.1 Derived terms 3 French 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Pronunciation 3.3 Noun 3.4 Adjective

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

• 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)

1. A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
2. An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
3. (printing) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
   • Such type collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
   • Text printed with such type (e.g., "set in bold type").
4. (biology) An individual considered representative of members of its taxonomic group: the type of a genus, family, etc.
5. (biology) A blood group.
6. (theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly Old Testament events linked to Christian times.
7. (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): class, genre, kind, sort
• (computing theory): data type
• (printing): sort
• See also Wikisaurus:class

[edit] Derived terms

grouping based on shared characteristics

• blood type
• typology

printing block

• movable type
• typeface
• typesetter
• typewriter
• typography

individual representative of its group

• antitype
• archetype
• typology

psychology

• ideal type
• normal type

computing theory

• built-in type
• primitive type
• composite type
• structured type
• type-safe

[edit] Translations

[edit] Verb

to 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.

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

[edit] Related terms

• typing
• typist
• typo

[edit] Translations

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: epty
• pyet

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Noun

type (plural typen)

1. type

[edit] Derived terms

• woningtype

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[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

Borrowed from ecclesiastical Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /tip/
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[edit] Noun

type m. (plural types)

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

[edit] Adjective

type m. (f. type, m. plural types, f. plural types)

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