- a number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics, that causes them to be regarded as a group, more or less precisely defined or designated; class; category: a criminal of the most vicious type.
- a thing or person regarded as a member of a class or category; kind; sort (usually followed by of): This is some type of mushroom.
- a person, regarded as reflecting or typifying a certain line of work, environment, etc.: a couple of civil service types.
- a thing or person that represents perfectly or in the best way a class or category; model: the very type of a headmaster.
- Printing.
- a rectangular piece or block, now usually of metal, having on its upper surface a letter or character in relief.
- such pieces or blocks collectively.
- a similar piece in a typewriter or the like.
- such pieces collectively.
- a printed character or printed characters: a headline in large type.
- face (defs. 21b, c).
- Biology.
- a genus or species that most nearly exemplifies the essential characteristics of a higher group.
- the one or more specimens on which the description and naming of a species is based.
- Agriculture.
- the inherited features of an animal or breed that are favorable for any given purpose: dairy type.
- a strain, breed, or variety of animal, or a single animal, belonging to a specific kind.
- the general form of a word, expression, symbol, or the like in contrast to its particular instances: The type “and” in “red and white and blue” has two separate tokens.
- the pattern or model from which something is made.
- an image or figure produced by impressing or stamping, as the principal figure or device on either side of a coin or medal.
- a distinctive or characteristic mark or sign.
- a symbol of something in the future, as an Old Testament event serving as a prefiguration of a New Testament event.
- blood group.
- to write on a typewriter or keyboard; typewrite or keyboard.
- to reproduce in type or in print.
- to ascertain the type of (a blood or tissue sample).
- to typecast.
- to be a type or symbol of; typify; symbolize; represent.
- to represent prophetically; foreshadow; prefigure.
- a suffix representing type (prototype), especially in names of photographic processes: ferrotype.
- a kind, class, or category, the constituents of which share similar characteristics
- a subdivision of a particular class of things or people; sort
- the general form, plan, or design distinguishing a particular group
- a person who typifies a particular quality
- a person, esp of a specified kind
- a small block of metal or more rarely wood bearing a letter or character in relief for use in printing
- such pieces collectively
- characters printed from type; print
- biology
- the taxonomic group the characteristics of which are used for defining the next highest group, for example Rattus norvegicus (brown rat) is the type species of the rat genus Rattus
- (as modifier)
- See type specimen
- the characteristic device on a coin
- a symbol regarded as standing for the class of all symbols identical to it
- a class of expressions or of the entities they represent that can all enter into the same syntactic relations. The theory of types was advanced by Bertrand Russell to avoid the liar paradox, Russell's paradox, etc
- a universal. If a sentence always has the same meaning whenever it is used, the meaning is said to be a property of the sentence-type
- a figure, episode, or symbolic factor resembling some future reality in such a way as to foreshadow or prefigure it
- a distinctive sign or mark
- to write (copy) on a typewriter
- to be a symbol of; typify
- to decide the type of; clarify into a type
- to determine the blood group of (a blood sample)
- to foreshadow or serve as a symbol of (some future reality)
- type or form
- printing type or photographic process
