type

Plural: types

Noun

• a subdivision of a particular kind of thing
  • "what type of sculpture do you prefer?"
• a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
  • "the capable type"
• (biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon
• printed characters
  • "small type is hard to read"
• all of the tokens of the same symbol
  • "the word `element' contains five different types of character"
• a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end; produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper
  • "he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up"
• A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
• 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.
• A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
• Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
• A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
• Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.
• 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.
• A blood group.
• A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.
• An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
• A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.)
• A symbol, emblem, or example of something.

Verb

Verb Forms: typed, typing, types

• To write using a keyboard or typewriter.
• write by means of a keyboard with types
  • "type the acceptance letter, please"
• identify as belonging to a certain type
  • "Such people can practically be 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.
• 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.

Adv

• Very, extremely.

Examples

• Categorial grammar is like a combination of context-free grammar and types.
• He was exactly her type.
• He would quickly TYPE his winning words into the Words With Friends app.
• The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion.
• The fundamental types used to express the simplest and most essential chemical relations are hydrochloric acid, water, ammonia, and methane.
• This type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane.
• We can't get along: he's just not my type.

Synonyms

case, character, eccentric, typecast, typewrite, bare, category, class, dumb, dummy, genre, group, hella, kind, mad, nature, odee, sort, stripe, tribe, type-word, wicked

Antonyms

antitype

Related Words

TYPABLE

Anagrams of type