Word definition: type

Etimology


From Middle English type (“symbol, figure, emblem”), from Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from τύπτω (túptō, “I strike, beat”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-. Related to stupid, stupefy and stop.

noun


type (plural types)

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.

(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.

(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.

(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.)

(obsolete except in the above special senses) A symbol, emblem, or example of something.

Examples


Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.

This type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane.

"I just peeked out toward the restaurant and there are a lot of Navy types in there. I'd hate for you to get in trouble on your last night in Europe."

Altogether he was the type of low ruffianism — as ill-conditioned a looking brute as ever ginned a hare.

The headline was set in bold type.

...thus Stearn has designated Linnaeus as the type specimen of Homo sapiens

Musca domestica is the type-species of Musca, a genus originally created by Linnaeus for a variety of higher Diptera, many of which are now known to be in other families.

We can't get along: he's just not my type.

He was exactly her type.

The fundamental types used to express the simplest and most essential chemical relations are hydrochloric acid, water, ammonia, and methane.

Logics of the second and higher orders may be regarded as type-theoretic systems.

Categorial grammar is like a combination of context-free grammar and types.

Related words


synonyms

(grouping based on shared characteristics): category, class, genre, group, kind, nature, sort, stripe, tribe

(printing block letter/character): sort

(mathematics): sort

See also Thesaurus:class

hyponyms

(computing theory): built-in type, composite type, primitive type, user-defined type

(printing block letter/character): movable type

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.

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.

Examples


The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion.

Let us type them now in our own lives.

It was a full load, a disparate group that he had already typed and cross-matched with their potential for future crime.

adverb


type (not comparable)

(African-American Vernacular, slang, rare) Very, extremely.

Examples


Synonyms: mad, hella, wicked, dumb, dummy, odee, bare

I don't think Brooklyn slang is that different from Manhattan slang. But I'm not used to a lot of the slang my friends use. Months ago, I first heard, "There are mad heads here." I was like, "Where did that come from?" For a while they were saying, "That's type funny." I was like: "What? What do you mean by that?" It means "very funny." Or they were like, "That's dumb stupid." I'm like, "That's redundant."

Yeah, the fat bitch is type-slow.

Standing before me was a grown ass woman. She was type thick, with nice size succulent breasts, and a nice plumped ass. Cadence was stacked.

I'm ngl you're type ugly too

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