# type
## English
### 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

* enPR: tīp
* IPA: /taɪp/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪp
* Hyphenation: type

### Noun

type (plural types)
* A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
** 2012 March, 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.
* An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
** 1969, Waldo Salt, Midnight Cowboy, spoken by Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman), United Artists:Look, with these gals that want to buy it, most of them are older, dignified. Social Register types, you know what I mean? They can't be trotting down to Times Square to pick out the merchandise. They got to have some kind of, uh, middleman.
** 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.
* (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.
* (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:...thus Stearn has designated Linnaeus as the type specimen of Homo sapiens
** 2015 December 16, “What's in a fly?”, in Natural History Museum‎: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.
* 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.
    Synonym: type-word
* (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.)
** 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.
* (obsolete except in the above special senses) A symbol, emblem, or example of something.

#### 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

#### Derived terms

* abstract data type
* abstract type
* aftertype
* algebraic data type
* allotype
* antitype
* archetype
* A-type conflict
* bastard type
* book type
* bottom type
* cell type
* chronotype
* constitutional type
* cotype
* C-type conflict
* delegate-type
* early-type star
* epitype
* E-type chondrite
* existential type
* file type
* find-as-you-type
* find as you type
* foretype
* generic type
* genotype
* group of Lie type
* gun-type
* gun-type bomb
* hapantotype
* harlequin-type ichthyosis
* Hindley-Milner type system
* holotype
* isoepitype
* isolectotype
* isoneotype
* isosyntype
* isotype
* late-type star
* leaded type
* lectotype
* maybe type
* mucopolysaccharidosis type I
* my blood type is ...
* name-based type system
* name-bearing type
* neotype
* nominal type system
* nominative type system
* n-type
* oblique type
* oncotype
* option type
* order type
* owner-type jeepney
* paralectotype
* paratype
* Pascual-Castroviejo syndrome type 1
* Pele-type
* phantom type
* phenotype
* play against type
* Prometheus-type
* prototype
* pseudo-type
* p-type
* reference type
* screw-type
* solar-type
* somatotype
* spectral type
* stereotype
* strong silent type
* syntype
* text-type
* text type
* time-homogeneous Markovian type
* time-independent Markovian type
* topotype
* touch-type
* true to type
* type 1 diabetes
* type 1 hypersensitivity
* type 2 diabetes
* type 3 diabetes
* type A
* type approval
* type area
* type B
* type bar
* type beat
* type-check
* type checker
* type checking
* type class
* type coercion
* type collection
* type color
* type colour
* type conversion
* type design
* type designer
* type erasure
* type face
* typeface
* type founder
* type-founder
* type foundry
* type genus
* type-high
* type hint
* type hinting
* type holder
* type I error
* type I fun
* type II error
* type II fun
* type III fun
* type-in
* type inference
* type introspection
* type juggling
* typeless
* type locality
* type metal
* type punning
* type safety
* type-safe (typesafe)
* type series
* typesetter
* type-setting
* type shit
* type-site
* type site
* type species
* type specimen
* type system
* type testing
* type theory
* type-token distinction
* type-token ratio
* type variety
* type wheel
* typewriter
* typography
* typology
* unified type system
* urban-type settlement
* ur-type
* value type
* Voldemort type
* wild type
* wild-type

#### Descendants

* → Japanese: タイプ
* → Korean: 타입 (taip)

#### Translations
### 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.
** 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:Let us type them now in our own lives.
* 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

* search-as-you-type
* search as you type
* type out
* type up
* typing
* typist

#### Descendants

* Esperanto: tajpi

#### Translations

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### Adverb

type (not comparable)
* (African-American Vernacular, slang, rare) Very, extremely.
    Synonyms: mad, hella, wicked, dumb, dummy, (NYC) odee, (MLE, MTE) bare
** 2007 September 16, Alex Mindlin, quoting David Helene, “’Our Year Is the Most Competitive Year in the History of College Applications. Or Something Like That.’”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-19: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."
** 2012, Jason Hooper, Some Things Are Better Left Untold, West Conshohocken, P.A.: Infinity Publishing, →ISBN, page 20:Yeah, the fat bitch is type-slow.
** 2017, Treasure Malian, In Love With the King of Miami, Atlanta, G.A.: Royalty Publishing House, →ISBN, page 17: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.
** 2023 December 19, @chillimnotacop, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 20 December 2023:I'm ngl you're type ugly too

### References

* “type adv.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

### Anagrams

* pyet

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈti.pə/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ty‧pe

### Etymology 1

From Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from τύπτω (túptō, “I strike, beat”).

#### 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

* huidtype
* lettertype
* typisch
* woningtype

##### Related terms

* archetype
* prototype
* stereotype

##### Descendants

* → Indonesian: tipe
* Petjo: tiep

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

type
* (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of typen

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tip/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

type m (plural types)
* type; sort, kind
* (colloquial) guy, bloke, man
* (typography) typeface

#### Derived terms

* type générique

#### Descendants

* → Polish: typ
* → Romanian: tip
* → Persian: تیپ (tip)
* → Turkish: tip

### Adjective

type (plural types)
* typical, normal, classic
* (statistics) standard

#### Derived terms

* écart type

### Further reading

* “type”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Latin
### Noun

type
* vocative singular of typus

## Norwegian Bokmål
### 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.

### References

* “type” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### 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.