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type

Pronunciation: /taɪp/

The English word “type” has 20 meanings listed here.

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. Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
  5. Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.
  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.
  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.

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”).

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