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’”).
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type (plural types)
- A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
- An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
- (printing) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
- (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 Old Testament events 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): class, genre, kind, sort
- (computing theory): data type
- (printing): sort
- See also Wikisaurus:class
[edit] Derived terms
grouping based on shared characteristics
printing block
individual representative of its group
psychology
computing theory
[edit] Translations
grouping based on shared characteristics
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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[edit] Verb
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to 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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to use a typewriter
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to enter characters into a computer using keyboard
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[edit] Noun
type (plural typen)
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[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
Borrowed from ecclesiastical Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος.
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[edit] Noun
type m. (plural types)
[edit] Adjective
type m. (f. type, m. plural types, f. plural types)
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