type definition
Overview
This page has 34 definitions of type with English translations in 5 languages. Type is a noun, verb and adjective. Examples of how to use type in a sentence are shown. Also define these 56 related words and terms: class, typical, embodiment, printing, letter, character, block, font, size, taxonomy, taxon, medicine, blood group, corpus, token, theology, prefigure, foreshadow, Old Testament, Christian, computing, theory, tag, variable, value, data type, chemistry, compound, derive, mathematics, partition, typewriter, keyboard, blood type, represent, typify, categorize, type, singular, present tense, subjunctive mood, typen, sort, kind, guy, bloke, man, typography, typeface, normal, classic, statistics, standard, typus, boy, and boyfriend.
English type definition
Etymology
From Middle English type (“symbol, figure, emblem”), from Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from τύπτω (túptō, “I strike, beat”).
Pronunciation
Noun
type (plural types)
- A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
- 2012 March 1, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 128:
- 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.
Class definition
A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes. (1 of 15 class definitions)
- An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
- 2002, Pat Conroy, The Great Santini, page 4:
- "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."
- An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
- 1872, Mary Rose Godfrey, Loyal, volume 3, page 116:
- Altogether he was the type of low ruffianism — as ill-conditioned a looking brute as ever ginned a hare.
- 1872, Mary Rose Godfrey, Loyal, volume 3, page 116:
- (printing, countable) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
- (uncountable) Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
- (chiefly uncountable) Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.
- The headline was set in bold type.
Printing definition
The process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology. (1 of 4 printing definitions)
Block definition
A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance. (1 of 34 block definitions)
Font definition
A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism. (1 of 3 font definitions)
- (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.
- 2009 March 20, Greg Mayer, “Who is the type specimen of Homo sapiens?”, in Why Evolution Is True[1]:
- ...thus Stearn has designated Linnaeus as the type specimen of Homo sapiens
- 2015 December 16, “What's in a fly?”, in Natural History Museum[2]:
- 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.
Taxonomy definition
The science or the technique used to make a classification. (1 of 3 taxonomy definitions)
Taxon definition
A group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.
- 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.
Medicine definition
A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way. (1 of 10 medicine definitions)
Blood Group definition
A blood type.
- (corpus linguistics) A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.
Corpus definition
A collection of writings, often on a specific topic, of a specific genre, from a specific demographic or a particular author, etc. (1 of 3 corpus definitions)
Token definition
Something serving as an expression of something else. (1 of 26 token definitions)
- (theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
Theology definition
The study of God, a god, or gods; and of the truthfulness of religion in general. (1 of 7 theology definitions)
Prefigure definition
To show or suggest ahead of time; to represent beforehand (often used in a Biblical context). (1 of 2 prefigure definitions)
- (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.
Theory definition
A description of an event or system that is considered to be accurate. (1 of 7 theory definitions)
Value definition
The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable. (1 of 11 value definitions)
Data Type definition
a classification or category of various types of data, that states the possible values that can be taken, how they are stored, and what range of operations are allowed on them
- (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.
Chemistry definition
The branch of natural science that deals with the composition and constitution of substances and the changes that they undergo as a consequence of alterations in the constitution of their molecules. (1 of 3 chemistry definitions)
Compound definition
An enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined (1 of 3 compound definitions)
- (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.)
- 2011, V.N. Grishin (originator), "Types, theory of", in Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Types,_theory_of&oldid=14150
- 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.
Partition definition
An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another. (1 of 12 partition definitions)
- 2011, V.N. Grishin (originator), "Types, theory of", in Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Types,_theory_of&oldid=14150
Synonyms
- (grouping based on shared characteristics): category, class, genre, group, kind, nature, sort, stripe, tribe
- (computing theory): data type
- (printing): sort
- (mathematics): sort
- See also Thesaurus:class
Hyponyms
- ideal type
- movable type
- normal type
- primitive type
- structured type
- user-defined type
Derived terms
- aftertype
- allotype
- antitype
- archetype
- cotype
- delegate-type
- epitype
- foretype
- genotype
- hapantotype
- holotype
- isoepitype
- isolectotype
- isoneotype
- isosyntype
- isotype
- lectotype
- neotype
- paralectotype
- paratype
- stereotype
- syntype
- topotype
- type checking
- type coercion
- type conversion
- typeface
- type introspection
- typeless
- typesafe
- type-safe
- typesetter
- type specimen
- typewriter
- typography
- typology
Translations
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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.
Typewriter definition
A device, at least partially mechanical, used to print text by pressing keys that cause type to be impressed through an inked ribbon onto paper. (1 of 4 typewriter definitions)
- To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
Keyboard definition
A set of keys used to operate a typewriter, computer etc. (1 of 3 keyboard definitions)
- To determine the blood type of.
- The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion.
Blood Type definition
A classification of blood that is based on the presence or absence of antigens in the red blood cells of an individual. For the purposes of blood transfusion three antigens referred to as "A", "B" and "RhD" (out of a total of 29) are the most important. Based on their presence the human blood can be classified to A, AB, B, and O blood types which are further divided to Rh positive or negative.
- To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
- To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
- 1847, Alfred Tennyson, The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 2024748, (please specify the page number, or |part=prologue, I to VII, or conclusion):
- Let us type them now in our own lives.
Represent definition
To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify. (1 of 13 represent definitions)
- To categorize into types.
- 1998, Dana Stabenow, Fire and Ice, page 1:
- It was a full load, a disparate group that he had already typed and cross-matched with their potential for future crime.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Esperanto: tajpi
Translations
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References
- type at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
Dutch type definition
Etymology
From Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from τύπτω (túptō, “I strike, beat”).
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - 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.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Indonesian: tipe
Verb
type
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of typen
Present Tense definition
: Present tense is the form of language used to refer to an event, transaction, or occurrence which is happening now (or at the present time), or an object that currently exists. Compare with past tense, which is the form of language used to refer to an event, transaction, or occurrence that did happen or has happened, or an object that existed, at a point in time before now; or with future tense, an event, transaction or occurrence that has not yet happened, is expected to happen in the future, or might never happen.
Subjunctive Mood definition
Mood expressing an action or state which is hypothetical or anticipated rather than actual, including wishes and commands.
Typen definition
to type
French type definition
Etymology
Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos).
Pronunciation
Noun
type m (plural types)
- type; sort, kind
Kind definition
A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together. (1 of 8 kind definitions)
- (colloquial) guy, bloke, man
Guy definition
An effigy of a man burned on a bonfire on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5th November). (1 of 7 guy definitions)
Bloke definition
An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype. (1 of 5 bloke definitions)
- (typography) typeface
Typography definition
The art or practice of setting and arranging type; typesetting. (1 of 3 typography definitions)
Typeface definition
The particular design of some type, font, or a font family. (1 of 2 typeface definitions)
Adjective
type (plural types)
- typical, normal, classic
Classic definition
Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art. (1 of 5 classic definitions)
- (statistics) standard
Statistics definition
A discipline, principally within applied mathematics, concerned with the systematic study of the collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation of data.
Standard definition
Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc. (1 of 7 standard definitions)
Further reading
- “type” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin type definition
Noun
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Norwegian Bokmål type definition
Etymology
From Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos).
Noun
type m (definite singular typen, indefinite plural typer, definite plural typene)
- a type (kind, sort)
- typeface
- (slang) a male person, a boy or man
- (slang) someone's boyfriend
- Typen til Anne.
- Anne's boyfriend.
Boyfriend definition
A male partner in an unmarried romantic relationship. (1 of 2 boyfriend definitions)
References
- “type” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk type definition
Etymology
From Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos).
Noun
type m (definite singular typen, indefinite plural typar, definite plural typane)
- a type (kind, sort)
References
- “type” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.