Type

Noun

 * 1) A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
 * This type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane.
 * 1) An individual considered typical of its class.
 * 2) * 2002, Pat Conroy, The Great Santini, page 4:
 * "I just peeked out toward the restaurant and there are a lot of Navy types in there. I'd hate for you to get in trouble on your last night in Europe."
 * 1) An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
 * 2) * 1872, Mary Rose Godfrey, Loyal, volume 3, page 116:
 * Altogether he was the type of low ruffianism — as ill-conditioned a looking brute as ever ginned a hare.
 * 1)  A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
 * 2) Such type collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
 * 3) Text printed with such type.
 * The headline was set in bold type.
 * 1)  An individual considered representative of members of its taxonomic group.
 * the type of a genus, family, etc.
 * 1)  A blood group.
 * 2)  An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
 * 3)  A tag attached to variables and values used in determining what values may be assigned to what variables.

Synonyms

 * category, class, genre, group, kind, sort, tribe
 * data type
 * sort
 * See also Thesaurus:class

Derived terms

 * blood type
 * typology
 * movable type
 * typeface
 * typesetter
 * typewriter
 * typography
 * antitype
 * archetype
 * typology
 * ideal type
 * normal type
 * built-in type
 * primitive type
 * composite type
 * structured type
 * type-safe

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.
 * The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion.

Related terms

 * typing
 * typist
 * typo

Descendants

 * Esperanto:

Adverbs for Type
individually; swiftly; accurately; originally; consummately; characteristically.

Adjectives for Type
innocent; contemplative; existing; rugged; barren; conspicuous; temperamental; severe; shiftless; civilized; austere; myriad (pi); constitutional; conventional; coade-quate; psychologic; dominant; nonpareil; sturdy; various (pi); individual; girlish; attentive; established; militant; conceivable; pompous; delicious; feline; ritualist; unchangeable; spirited; aristocratic; unscrupulous; dignified; tender; vulgar; manufactured;  dominant;   prevalent;   fatalistic; chest-heaving; unrealized; faddist; charming; aesthetic; engrossing; delectable; bachelor; evanescent; heroic; spontaneous; gamin; characteristic; unfamiliar; representative; transcendent; malignant; florid; picturesque; myopic; marrying; original; objectionable; intellectual; innumerable (pi); indigenous; ethnic; conceivable; ingenue;

Thesaurus
Platonic form, Platonic idea, adumbration, aesthetic form, affinity, alien, allegory, alphabetize, analyze, animus, antetype, antitype, aptitude, archetype, area, arrange, art form, ascender, assort, augury, auspice, back, bag, barometer, bastard type, beard, belly, bent, betokening, betokenment, bevel, bias, biotype, black letter, blazon, blood, body, body-build, brand, break down, breed, build, canon, cap, capital, case, case in point, cast, catalog, categorize, category, character, characteristic, characteristics, charactery, check, chosen kind, cipher, clan, class, classic example, classification, classify, codify, color, complexion, composition, configuration, conformation, constituents, constitution, conventional symbol, copy, copy out, counter, crackpot, crank, crasis, criterion, cross section, cup of tea, cut, degree, demonstration, denomination, descender, description, designation, dharma, diathesis, digest, disposition, divide, draft, draw up, druthers, eccentric, eccentricity, edit, em, emblem, embodiment, en, enface, engross, epitome, ethos, example, exemplar, exemplification, explanation, exponent, face, fanatic, fancy, fashion, fat-faced type, favor, feather, feet, fiber, field, figuration, figure, file, font, foreshadow, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foretoken, foretokening, form, format, formation, forte, fount, frame, fugleman, fugler, gauge, genius, genotype, genre, genus, glosseme, grade, graduated scale, grain, groove, group, habit, hermit, hobo, hue, humor, humors, icon, iconology, ideogram, idiosyncrasy, ilk, illustration, imitatee, impression, inclination, index, indicant, indication, individualism, inner form, inscribe, instance, italic, keyboard, kidney, kin, kind, kook, label, layout, lead, leaning, letter, lexeme, lexical form, ligature, line, list, logogram, logotype, lone wolf, loner, long suit, lot, love knot, lower case, main interest, majuscule, make, make a recension, make out, makeup, manner, mark, matrix, maverick, measure, mental set, meshuggenah, metier, mettle, mind, mind-set, minuscule, mirror, modality, mode, model, mold, morpheme, natural, nature, nick, nonconformist, norm, number, nut, object lesson, odd fellow, oddball, oddity, omen, order, original, outsider, paradigm, parameter, pariah, partiality, particular choice, pattern, pen, pencil, personal choice, personification, persuasion, pet subject, phrase, phylum, physique, pi, pica, pictogram, pigeonhole, place, point, portent, precedent, predilection, predisposition, preference, prefiguration, preindication, prejudice, premonitory shiver, premonitory sign, premonitory symptom, prepossession, presignifying, print, proclivity, prognostic, prognostication, promise, propensity, property, prototype, pursuit, push the pen, put in writing, quality, quantity, queer duck, queer fish, queer specimen, quintessence, race, range, rank, rara avis, rate, reading, readout, recense, record, relevant instance, representation, representative, revise, rewrite, roman, rubric, rule, sample, sans serif, scale, screwball, scribe, script, scrive, scroll, semasiological unit, sememe, set, shadow, shank, shape, shoulder, sign, signifiant, significant, significant form, slant, small cap, small capital, solitary, somatotype, soothsay, sort, specialism, speciality, specialization, specialty, species, specimen, spill ink, spirit, spoil paper, stamp, standard, stem, strain, streak, stripe, strong point, structure, style, subdivide, suchness, superscribe, symbol, symbolic system, symbolism, symbolization, symbology, system, tabulate, taste, technicality, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, term, test, the like of, the likes of, thing, token, tokening, tone, totem, totem pole, touchstone, trace, tramp, transcribe, tribe, turn, turn of mind, twist, type body, type class, type lice, type species, type specimen, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, typical example, typification, upper case, urtext, value, variety, vein, vocation, warp, way, weakness, word, write, write down, write out, yardstick, zealot

Pronunciation




Etymology
From typus:, from  τύπος:, from τύπτω:.

Noun

 * Arabic: نوع, نمط
 * Bengali: প্রকার
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ტიპი
 * German: ,
 * Hindi: तरह
 * Japanese: 種類, 分類
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ტიპი
 * German: ,
 * Hindi: तरह
 * Japanese: 種類, 分類
 * Japanese: 種類, 分類
 * Japanese: 種類, 分類
 * Japanese: 種類, 分類


 * Korean: 형, 유형, 종류 (種類)
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Persian: نوع
 * Polish: rodzaj
 * Portuguese: tipo, gênero
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: тип, вид
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: тип, вид
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: perustyyppi
 * German:


 * Russian: представитель, образчик
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: შრიფტი


 * German: ,
 * Russian: литера, шрифт
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * German: Typus
 * Russian: представитель, образчик


 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Estonian:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * German: Typ, Typus


 * Persian: نوع‌
 * Russian: тип


 * : τύπος (typos), είδος (eidos)
 * : タイプ (taipu)
 * : tipo

Verb

 * Arabic: طبع
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 用打字機打字, 用打字机打字
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: kirjoittaa koneella
 * French: taper à la machine, ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, legépel


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: タイプライターで打つ
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: писать на машинке (pisát’ na mašínke), печатать, напечатать
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Spanish: escribir a máquina, mecanografiar
 * Swedish: maskinskriva
 * Vietnamese: đánh máy


 * Arabic: طبع
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, , näpyttää,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hebrew:


 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: タイプする,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: печатать, напечатать
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Thai: พิมพ์
 * Vietnamese:


 * Finnish:


 * : (1) δακτυλογραφώ (daktilografo), (2) πληκτρολογώ (pliktrologo), (3) τυπολογώ (tipologo), ομαδοποιώ (omadopio)
 * : 타자하다 (tajahada)


 * : tipări

Anagrams

 * pyet

Derived terms

 * woningtype

Noun

 * 1) ; sort, kind
 * 2)  guy, bloke
 * 3)  typeface

Adjective

 * 1) typical, normal, classic
 * 2)  standard

Etymology
Borrowed from ecclesiastical typus:, from  τύπος:.