stereotype
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
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Etymology: Borrowed from French stéréotype (adjective), equivalent to stereo- + type. Printing sense is from 1817; the “conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image” sense is recorded from 1922 in Walter Lippmann’s book Public Opinion.
Base: type
Affixes: stereo-
Inflected forms:
form: stereotypes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stereotypes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stereotyping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stereotyped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stereotyped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person or a group of people).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Not all Zumbetonians wear plimsolls. That's just a stereotype.
Instead we notice a trait which marks a well known type, and fill in the rest of the picture by means of the stereotypes we carry about in our heads.
Anthropologists studying aid agencies have found that stereotypes and deindividualization are endemic among those in refugee work. It may be inevitable that large assistance organizations tend to objectify, simplify, and universalize the people under their care.
So, although to some observers machine music implies a harsh metronomicity – and some sectors of electronic dance music might be the stereotype here – computers can also be the means of investigating human expression.
“Psychotherapists are not immune to the same stereotypes that we all have, and I think they could become even more relevant for psychotherapists than for other professions [both medical and nonmedical], because they are embarking on this intimate, potentially long-term relationship with these [clients],” said Heather Kugelmass, a doctoral student in sociology at Princeton University. Kugelmass is the author of the study (PDF), which was published Wednesday in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
Heartwarming: Trans girl breaks stereotypes by being the worst on the girls swim team
So, here are my top 10 tips on how you can avoid the “stupid American” stereotype and become a “Smart American” abroad.
gloss: A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Unable to ascertain what is in the minds of so many individuals, he must try to simplify his problems by eliminating individual differences: he must try to control and stereotype interests and beliefs by education and propaganda.
The heroines of these plays speak out against intraracial biases, stereotyping, lynchmobs, illiteracy, poverty, promiscuity, self-righteousness, verbally abusive men, rape, and miscegenation. […] Without warning the doctor, she chokes the life out of her child in order to keep him safe from white lynchmobs.
Saint Teresa, paradoxical as such a judgment may sound, was a typical shrew, in this sense of the term. […] Her voluble egotism; her sense, not of radical bad being, as the really contrite have it, but of her 'faults' and 'imperfections' in the plural; her stereotyped humility and return upon herself, as covered with 'confusion' at each new manifestation of God's singular partiality for a person so unworthy, are typical of shrewdom: a paramountly feeling nature would be objectively lost in gratitude, and silent.
gloss: To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to stereotype the Bible
gloss: To print from a stereotype.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make firm or permanent; to fix.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions.
gloss: Of an edition: printed in stereotype.
pos: adj
examples: At the present Epoch (1800), the art of Printing is become rather retrograde; or we should not hear so much of Stereotype editions. Surely the use and very principle of the invention of Printing, is to have the types moveable!
Yet the whole of this mighty preparation ended in the production of a small stereotype edition of the New Testament, without the usual distinction of verses, and nearly without notes.
The first edition of this work, (the constant and increasing sale of which proves the high esteem in which it is deservedly held), begun in 1788, and published in London, in numbers, consisted of 5,000 copies; the second in 1805, of 2,000; the third in 1810, of 2,000; the fourth in 1812, of 3,000; and the new edition is stereotype, the largest work ever submitted to that process.
gloss: Synonym of stereotyped.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
rare
examples: It is an ingenious expression which I owe to you, sir, that the manners of the East are as it were stereotype. Ahhough I do not conceive that they are quite so strongly marked, yet, to make my idea understood, I would say that they are like the last impressions taken from a copper-plate engraving, where the whole of the subject to be represented is made out, although parts of it from much use have been obliterated.
Cartels by the hundred: which he, since the Constitution must be made first, and his time is precious, answers now always with a kind of stereotype formula: ‘Monsieur, you are put upon my List; but I warn you that it is long, and I grant no preferences.’
This wonderful passage, with its piercing tenderness and solemn eloquence, is—one shrinks from saying it—a veritable mosaic of stereotype ideas, characteristic of this particular kind of ‘epilogus,’ or [‘]consolatio,’ as a few illustrations out of many will show.
The posture of the body is very straight with the preserved arm hanging straight down at the side. The body is of the well-known athletic type, that, by no means, is stereotype in its proportions. In the Old Kingdom for example, the shoulders are straighter and normally so broad that the arms hanging down do not even touch the body.
Related words: stereotypy
stereotypography
Derived words: counterstereotype
stereotyper
cybertype
metastereotype
stereotype tax
stereotype threat
stereotypic
stereotypical
stereotypist
stereotypographer
stereotypable
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