type

Meaning

1. A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
2. An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
3. An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
4. A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
5. A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
6. Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.
7. Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
8. A blood group.
9. A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.
10. An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
11. A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.)
15. A symbol, emblem, or example of something.

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/taɪp/

From Middle English type (“symbol, figure, emblem”), from Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from τύπτω (túptō, “I strike, beat”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-. Related to stupid, stupefy and stop.

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