type

See also: -type, Type, and typé

type - English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /taɪp/

Noun

type (plural types)

  1. A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
    • This type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane.
  2. An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
  3. An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
  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. (taxonomy) Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.
  6. Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
    • We can't get along: he's just not my type.
    • He was exactly her type.
  7. (medicine) A blood group.
  8. (corpus linguistics) A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.
  9. (theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
  10. (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.
  11. (fine arts) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; especially, the design on the face of a medal or a coin.
  12. (chemistry) A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.
    • The fundamental types used to express the simplest and most essential chemical relations are hydrochloric acid, water, ammonia, and methane.
  13. (mathematics) A part of the partition of the object domain of a logical theory (which due to the existence of such partition, would be called a typed theory). (Note: this corresponds to the notion of "data type" in computing theory.)
    • Categorial grammar is like a combination of context-free grammar and types.
  14. (obsolete except in the above special senses) A symbol, emblem, or example of something.

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Translations

  • Dutch: type (nl)
  • Finnish: tyyppi (fi)
  • French: genre (fr) m, style (fr) m, type (fr) m
  • Hungarian: eset (hu)
  • Italian: tipo (it) m
  • Japanese: 性格型 (せいかくがた, seikaku gata), 好み (ja) (このみ, konomi), タイプ (ja) (taipu)
  • Polish: typ (pl) m
  • Asturian: tipu m
  • Bulgarian: тип (bg) m (tip)
  • Catalan: tipus (ca) m
  • Chinese:
    • Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
  • Czech: typ (cs) m
  • Finnish: tyyppi (fi)
  • French: type (fr) m
  • German: Typ (de) m, Typus (de) m
  • Greek: τύπος (el) m (týpos)
  • Hungarian: típus (hu), adattípus (hu)
  • Icelandic: tag n
  • Italian: tipo (it) m
  • Japanese:  (ja) (かた, kata)
  • Korean:  (ko) (hyeong)
  • Persian: نوع (fa)
  • Polish: typ (pl) m
  • Portuguese: tipo (pt) m
  • Russian: тип (ru) m (tip)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
  • Slovak: typ m
  • Slovene: tip m
  • Spanish: tipo (es) m
  • Telugu: టైపు చేయు (ṭaipu cēyu)
  • Ukrainian: тип m (typ)
  • Vietnamese: kiểu (vi)

Verb

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.
  5. To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
  6. To categorize into types.

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Translations

  • Chinese:
    • Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
  • Finnish: määrittää veriryhmä
  • Greek: ομαδοποιώ (el) (omadopoió)
  • Portuguese: tipar
  • Spanish: identificar el tipo de

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type - Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ty‧pe

Noun

type n (plural types or typen, diminutive typetje n)

  1. type: a class, someone or something from a class. The diminutive is used when made into a caricature.

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Verb

type

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of typen

type - French

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /tip/

Noun

type m (plural types)

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

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  • Polish: typ
  • Romanian: tip
  • Turkish: tip

Adjective

type (plural types)

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

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type - Latin

Noun

type

  1. vocative singular of typus

type - Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

type m (definite singular typen, indefinite plural typer, definite plural typene)

  1. a type (kind, sort)
  2. typeface
  3. (slang) a male person, a boy or man
  4. (slang) someone's boyfriend
    • Typen til Anne.
      • Anne's boyfriend.

type - Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

type m (definite singular typen, indefinite plural typar, definite plural typane)

  1. a type (kind, sort)
Meaning and Definition of type
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