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- 1 Very, extremely. not-comparable, rare, slang
"I don't think Brooklyn slang is that different from Manhattan slang. But I'm not used to a lot of the slang my friends use. Months ago, I first heard, "There are mad heads here." I was like, "Where did that come from?" For a while they were saying, "That's type funny." I was like: "What? What do you mean by that?" It means "very funny." Or they were like, "That's dumb stupid." I'm like, "That's redundant.""
- 1 A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
"This type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane."
- 2 a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end; produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper wordnet
- 3 An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
"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."
- 4 a subdivision of a particular kind of thing wordnet
- 5 An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
"Altogether he was the type of low ruffianism — as ill-conditioned a looking brute as ever ginned a hare."
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- 6 all of the tokens of the same symbol wordnet
- 7 A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.; Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size. uncountable
- 8 printed characters wordnet
- 9 A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.; Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics. uncountable
"The headline was set in bold type."
- 10 (biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon wordnet
- 11 Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.
"...thus Stearn has designated Linnaeus as the type specimen of Homo sapiens"
- 12 a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities) wordnet
- 13 Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
"We can't get along: he's just not my type."
- 14 A blood group.
- 15 A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.
- 16 An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
- 17 A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.
- 18 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.
- 19 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.
"The fundamental types used to express the simplest and most essential chemical relations are hydrochloric acid, water, ammonia, and methane."
- 20 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.)
"Logics of the second and higher orders may be regarded as type-theoretic systems."
- 21 A symbol, emblem, or example of something.
- 1 To put text on paper using a typewriter.
- 2 identify as belonging to a certain type wordnet
- 3 To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
- 4 write by means of a keyboard with types wordnet
- 5 To determine the blood type of.
"The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion."
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- 6 To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
- 7 To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
"Let us type them now in our own lives."
- 8 To categorize into types.
"It was a full load, a disparate group that he had already typed and cross-matched with their potential for future crime."
Etymology
From Middle English type (“symbol, figure, emblem”), from Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from τύπτω (túptō, “I strike, beat”).
From Middle English type (“symbol, figure, emblem”), from Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from τύπτω (túptō, “I strike, beat”).
From Middle English type (“symbol, figure, emblem”), from Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from τύπτω (túptō, “I strike, beat”).
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