type
type - English
Pronunciation
- IPA: /taɪp/
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, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
- An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
- (printing, countable) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
- (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.
- 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.
- (medicine) A blood group.
- (corpus linguistics) A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.
- (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 which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.
- (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.
- (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.
- (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.
- (obsolete except in the above special senses) A symbol, emblem, or example of something.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
- (computing theory): built-in type, composite type, primitive type, user-defined type
- (printing block letter/character): movable type
Derived terms
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With this term at the end
- aftertype
- allotype
- antitype
- archetype
- cotype
- delegate-type
- epitype
- foretype
- genotype
- hapantotype
- holotype
- isoepitype
- isolectotype
- isoneotype
- isosyntype
- isotype
- lectotype
- neotype
- oncotype
- paralectotype
- paratype
- phenotype
- prototype
- stereotype
- syntype
- topotype
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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 of.
- The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion.
- To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
- To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
- To categorize into types.
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Descendants
- Esperanto: tajpi
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Anagrams
type - Dutch
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ty‧pe
Noun
type n (plural types or typen, diminutive typetje n)
- type: a class, someone or something from a class. The diminutive is used when made into a caricature.
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Verb
type
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of typen
type - French
Pronunciation
- IPA: /tip/
Noun
type m (plural types)
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Adjective
type (plural types)
Derived terms
type - Latin
Noun
type
- vocative singular of typus
type - Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
type m (definite singular typen, indefinite plural typer, definite plural typene)
type - Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
type m (definite singular typen, indefinite plural typar, definite plural typane)
- a type (kind, sort)