type

Noun

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. (uncountable) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
5. (uncountable) 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.

Verb

1. To put text on paper using a typewriter.
2. To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
3. To determine the blood type of.
4. To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
5. To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
6. To categorize into types.

Adv

Very, extremely.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/taɪp/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: type

In summary

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

Synonyms

kind

sort

class

variety

species

category

model

style

form

character

pattern

typewrite

genre

group

genus

font

manner

case

print

breed

tire

stamp

way

order

nature

mode

figure

rank

letter

quality

fashion

classification

write

✍️

example

typecast

typeface

eccentric

division

appearance

description

picture

press

race

norm

fellow

make

family

👪

lettering

characteristics

key

🔑

Translations

type

Art

genre

tipo

tipo

tipo

Typ

soort

Gattung

Sorte

type

espèce

specie

género

tipus

Sentences

The runway seems way to short for this type of plane .

This type of product is widely seen .

The type material is preserved in the collection of the Redpath Museum .

The process of licensing varies depending on the type of use required .

The second type of frictional force acting on a skier is drag .

It combines an object-oriented type system , syntax-directed translation schemes and a target-language interface .