type
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
chemistry
computing
computing-theory
engineering
lifestyle
mathematics
media
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
printing
publishing
religion
sciences
taxonomy
theology
Etymology: From Middle English type (“symbol, figure, emblem”), from Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from τύπτω (túptō, “to strike, beat”).
Inflected forms:
form: types
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: types
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: typing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: typed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: typed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
pos: noun
examples: This type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane.
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.
gloss: An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
"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."
gloss: An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
pos: noun
examples: Altogether he was the type of low ruffianism — as ill-conditioned a looking brute as ever ginned a hare.
gloss: A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The headline was set in bold type.
gloss: Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.
pos: noun
examples: ...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.
gloss: Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
pos: noun
examples: We can't get along: he's just not my type.
He was exactly her type.
gloss: A blood group.
pos: noun
gloss: A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.
pos: noun
gloss: An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
pos: noun
gloss: A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: The fundamental types used to express the simplest and most essential chemical relations are hydrochloric acid, water, ammonia, and methane.
gloss: 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.)
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A symbol, emblem, or example of something.
pos: noun
gloss: To put text on paper using a typewriter.
pos: verb
gloss: To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
pos: verb
gloss: To determine the blood type of.
pos: verb
examples: The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion.
gloss: To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
pos: verb
gloss: To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
pos: verb
examples: Let us type them now in our own lives.
gloss: To categorize into types.
pos: verb
examples: It was a full load, a disparate group that he had already typed and cross-matched with their potential for future crime.
Synonyms: sort
Derived words: abstract data type
abstract type
aftertype
algebraic data type
allotype
antitype
archetype
A-type conflict
bastard type
body type
book type
bottom type
cell type
chronotype
constitutional type
cotype
C-type conflict
delegate-type
early-type star
electrotype
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
moveable type
mucopolysaccharidosis type I
Murk Jansen-type metaphyseal chondrodysplasia
my blood type is ...
name-based type system
name-bearing type
national-type school
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
result type
return type
Rotor-type hyperbilirubinemia
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 C
type-check
type checker
type checking
type class
type coercion
type collection
type color
type colour
type conversion
type design
type designer
type erasure
typeface
type face
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
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
search-as-you-type
search as you type
type out
type up
typing
typist
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: տպատառ
roman: tpataṙ
lang: Armenian
word: լիտեր
roman: liter
lang: Azerbaijani
word: liter
lang: Finnish
word: kirjasin
lang: Finnish
word: kirjasinlaji
lang: French
word: caractère
lang: Georgian
word: შრიფტი
roman: šripṭi
lang: German
word: Letter
lang: German
word: Type
lang: Greek
word: χαρακτήρες
roman: charaktíres
lang: Latvian
word: burtstabiņš
lang: Latvian
word: litera
lang: Polish
word: czcionka
lang: Portuguese
word: tipo
lang: Russian
word: ли́тера
roman: lítera
lang: Russian
word: шрифт
roman: šrift
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: clò
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: вр́ста
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: vŕsta
lang: Telugu
word: చిహ్నము
roman: cihnamu
lang: Vietnamese
word: chữ in
lang: Finnish
word: tyyppiyksilö
lang: German
word: Typus
lang: Greek
word: είδος
roman: eídos
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: cure
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: cor
lang: Russian
word: представи́тель
roman: predstavítelʹ
lang: Russian
word: обра́зчик
roman: obrázčik
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: gnè
lang: Spanish
word: tipo
lang: Telugu
word: ఛాయ
roman: chāya
lang: Telugu
word: మాదిరి
roman: mādiri
lang: Asturian
word: tipu
lang: Bulgarian
word: тип
roman: tip
lang: Catalan
word: tipus
lang: Czech
word: typ
lang: Finnish
word: tyyppi
lang: French
word: type
lang: German
word: Typ
lang: German
word: Typus
lang: Greek
word: τύπος
roman: týpos
lang: Hungarian
word: típus
lang: Hungarian
word: adattípus
lang: Icelandic
word: tag
lang: Italian
word: tipo
lang: Japanese
word: 型
roman: kata
lang: Korean
word: 형
roman: hyeong
lang: Persian
word: نوع
lang: Polish
word: typ
lang: Portuguese
word: tipo
lang: Russian
word: тип
roman: tip
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ти̑п
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: tȋp
lang: Slovak
word: typ
lang: Slovene
word: tip
lang: Spanish
word: tipo
lang: Telugu
word: టైపు చేయు
roman: ṭaipu cēyu
lang: Ukrainian
word: тип
roman: typ
lang: Vietnamese
word: kiểu