type
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tīp
ipa: /taɪp/
rhymes: -aɪp
Forms: form: types
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”).
Senses: examples: text: This type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane.
text: 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.
ref: 2012 March 24, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 128:
glosses: A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1969, Waldo Salt, Midnight Cowboy, spoken by Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman), United Artists:
text: "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."
ref: 2002, Pat Conroy, The Great Santini, page 4:
glosses: An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
examples: text: Altogether he was the type of low ruffianism — as ill-conditioned a looking brute as ever ginned a hare.
ref: 1872, Mary Rose Godfrey, Loyal, volume 3, page 116:
glosses: An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: 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.
examples: The headline was set in bold type.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.
examples: text: ...thus Stearn has designated Linnaeus as the type specimen of Homo sapiens
ref: 2009 March 20, Greg Mayer, “Who is the type specimen of Homo sapiens?”, in Why Evolution Is True:
text: 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.
ref: 2015 December 16, “What's in a fly?”, in Natural History Museum:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.
examples: text: We can't get along: he's just not my type.
text: He was exactly her type.
glosses: Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A blood group.
synonyms: type-word
qualifier: corpus linguistics
glosses: A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.
qualifier: fine arts
glosses: 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.
examples: text: The fundamental types used to express the simplest and most essential chemical relations are hydrochloric acid, water, ammonia, and methane.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Logics of the second and higher orders may be regarded as type-theoretic systems.
ref: 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
text: Categorial grammar is like a combination of context-free grammar and types.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: 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.)
qualifier: obsolete except in the above special senses
glosses: A symbol, emblem, or example of something.
Synonyms: sense: grouping based on shared characteristics
word: category
sense: grouping based on shared characteristics
word: class
sense: grouping based on shared characteristics
word: genre
sense: grouping based on shared characteristics
word: group
sense: grouping based on shared characteristics
word: kind
sense: grouping based on shared characteristics
word: nature
sense: grouping based on shared characteristics
word: sort
sense: grouping based on shared characteristics
word: stripe
sense: grouping based on shared characteristics
word: tribe
sense: printing block letter/character
word: sort
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: sort
Hyponyms: topics: computing-theory
computing
mathematics
sciences
engineering
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: built-in type
topics: computing-theory
computing
mathematics
sciences
engineering
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: composite type
topics: computing-theory
computing
mathematics
sciences
engineering
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: primitive type
topics: computing-theory
computing
mathematics
sciences
engineering
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: user-defined type
sense: printing block letter/character
word: movable type
Derived terms: word: abstract data type
word: abstract type
word: aftertype
word: algebraic data type
word: allotype
word: antitype
word: archetype
word: A-type conflict
word: bastard type
word: book type
word: bottom type
word: cell type
word: chronotype
word: constitutional type
word: cotype
word: C-type conflict
word: delegate-type
word: early-type star
word: epitype
word: E-type chondrite
word: existential type
word: file type
word: find-as-you-type
word: find as you type
word: foretype
word: generic type
word: genotype
word: group of Lie type
word: gun-type
word: gun-type bomb
word: hapantotype
word: harlequin-type ichthyosis
word: Hindley-Milner type system
word: holotype
word: isoepitype
word: isolectotype
word: isoneotype
word: isosyntype
word: isotype
word: late-type star
word: leaded type
word: lectotype
word: maybe type
word: moveable type
word: mucopolysaccharidosis type I
word: Murk Jansen-type metaphyseal chondrodysplasia
word: my blood type is ...
word: name-based type system
word: name-bearing type
word: national-type school
word: neotype
word: nominal type system
word: nominative type system
word: n-type
word: oblique type
word: oncotype
word: option type
word: order type
word: owner-type jeepney
word: paralectotype
word: paratype
word: Pascual-Castroviejo syndrome type 1
word: Pele-type
word: phantom type
word: phenotype
word: play against type
word: Prometheus-type
word: prototype
word: pseudo-type
word: p-type
word: reference type
word: result type
word: return type
word: Rotor-type hyperbilirubinemia
word: screw-type
word: solar-type
word: somatotype
word: spectral type
word: stereotype
word: strong silent type
word: syntype
word: text type
word: text-type
word: time-homogeneous Markovian type
word: time-independent Markovian type
word: topotype
word: touch-type
word: true to type
word: type 1 diabetes
word: type 1 hypersensitivity
word: type 2 diabetes
word: type 3 diabetes
word: type A
word: type approval
word: type area
word: type B
word: type bar
word: type beat
word: type-check
word: type checker
word: type checking
word: type class
word: type coercion
word: type collection
word: type color
word: type colour
word: type conversion
word: type design
word: type designer
word: type erasure
word: type face
word: typeface
word: type-founder
word: type founder
word: type foundry
word: type genus
word: type-high
word: type hint
word: type hinting
word: type holder
word: type I error
word: type I fun
word: type II error
word: type II fun
word: type III fun
word: type-in
word: type inference
word: type introspection
word: type juggling
word: typeless
word: type locality
word: type metal
word: type punning
word: type safety
alt: typesafe
word: type-safe
word: type series
word: typesetter
word: type-setting
word: type shit
word: type site
word: type-site
word: type species
word: type specimen
word: type system
word: type testing
word: type theory
word: type-token distinction
word: type-token ratio
word: type variety
word: type wheel
word: typewriter
word: typography
word: typology
word: unified type system
word: urban-type settlement
word: ur-type
word: value type
word: Voldemort type
word: wild-type
word: wild type