Talk:type

dated: a man

I found in Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray a quotation where it would seem to mean a man (a male adult human being). This would fit with the French meaning type (“a man, a male person”). I shall look up that quotation if I have to (I'm reading a paper copy, so there's no 'search' function). Renard Migrant (talk) 14:37, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

I found these (covered by our existing senses, and not meaning "man" as such): "Dorian Gray was the type of everything that is wonderful and fascinating in life" (i.e. archetype or ideal); "they saw ... in Dorian Gray the true realization of a type of which they had often dreamed in Eton or Oxford days" (similar). Equinox ◑ 19:22, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Printing types

Chambers 1908 has some notes about old-fashioned printing types: "In America types are designated according to the number of 'points' of which the body consists. The point is 1/12 of a Pica; Nonpareil would accordingly be called six points. On the Continent the point is 1/12 of a Cicero, a body between Pica and English)." Equinox ◑ 03:51, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

Possible missing noun senses

Chambers 1908 has these:

• a model in nature made the subject of a copy.
• the order in which the symptoms of a disease exhibit themselves.

Equinox ◑ 21:47, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

After an adjective

In the following quote,

• 1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:

  Frank's a regular crazy and wild-type guy.

What is the purpose of the word type? And should that usage go on this page or on -type? Simplificationalizer (talk) 21:05, 5 September 2022 (UTC)