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From Middle English type (“symbol, figure, emblem”), from Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from τύπτω (túptō, “I strike, beat”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-. Related to stupid, stupefy and stop.
type (plural types)
- A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
2012 March, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 128:
Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.
This type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane.
- An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
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."
- An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
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.
- (printing, countable) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
- (uncountable) Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
- (chiefly uncountable) Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.
- The headline was set in bold type.
- (taxonomy) Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.
2009 March 20, Greg Mayer, “Who is the type specimen of Homo sapiens?”, in Why Evolution Is True[1]:
...thus Stearn has designated Linnaeus as the type specimen of Homo sapiens
2015 December 16, “What's in a fly?”, in Natural History Museum[2]:
Musca domestica is the type-species of Musca, a genus originally created by Linnaeus for a variety of higher Diptera, many of which are now known to be in other families.
- Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
We can't get along: he's just not my type.
He was exactly her type.
- (medicine) A blood group.
- (corpus linguistics) A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.
- (theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
- (computing theory) A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.
- (fine arts) 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.
- (chemistry) 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.
- (mathematics) 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.)
- 2011, V.N. Grishin (originator), "Types, theory of", in Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Types,_theory_of&oldid=14150
- Logics of the second and higher orders may be regarded as type-theoretic systems.
Categorial grammar is like a combination of context-free grammar and types.
- 2011, V.N. Grishin (originator), "Types, theory of", in Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Types,_theory_of&oldid=14150
- (obsolete except in the above special senses) A symbol, emblem, or example of something.
- (grouping based on shared characteristics): category, class, genre, group, kind, nature, sort, stripe, tribe
- (printing block letter/character): sort
- (mathematics): sort
- See also Thesaurus:class
- (computing theory): built-in type, composite type, primitive type, user-defined type
- (printing block letter/character): movable type
- abstract data type
- abstract type
- aftertype
- algebraic data type
- allotype
- antitype
- archetype
- A-type conflict
- bastard type
- book type
- bottom type
- cell type
- chronotype
- constitutional type
- cotype
- delegate-type
- early-type star
- epitype
- existential type
- file type
- find-as-you-type
- find as you type
- foretype
- generic type
- genotype
- group of Lie type
- gun-type
- gun-type bomb
- hapantotype
- harlequin-type ichthyosis
- Hindley-Milner type system
- holotype
- isoepitype
- isolectotype
- isoneotype
- isosyntype
- isotype
- late-type star
- leaded type
- lectotype
- mucopolysaccharidosis type I
- my blood type is ...
- name-based type system
- name-bearing type
- neotype
- nominal type system
- nominative type system
- n-type
- oblique type
- oncotype
- order type
- owner-type jeepney
- paralectotype
- paratype
- Pascual-Castroviejo syndrome type 1
- Pele-type
- phantom type
- phenotype
- play against type
- Prometheus-type
- prototype
- pseudo-type
- p-type
- reference type
- screw-type
- solar-type
- somatotype
- spectral type
- stereotype
- strong silent type
- syntype
- text-type
- text type
- time-homogeneous Markovian type
- time-independent Markovian type
- topotype
- touch-type
- true to type
- type 1 diabetes
- type 2 diabetes
- type 3 diabetes
- type A
- type area
- type B
- type bar
- type beat
- type-check
- type checker
- type checking
- type class
- type coercion
- type collection
- type color
- type colour
- type conversion
- type design
- type designer
- type erasure
- typeface
- type face
- type-founder
- type founder
- type foundry
- type genus
- type-high
- type hint
- type hinting
- type holder
- type I error
- type II error
- type-in
- type inference
- type introspection
- type juggling
- typeless
- type locality
- type metal
- type punning
- type safety
- type-safe (typesafe)
- type series
- typesetter
- type-setting
- type shit
- type site
- type-site
- type species
- type specimen
- type system
- type theory
- type-token ratio
- type variety
- type wheel
- typewriter
- typography
- typology
- unified type system
- urban-type settlement
- ur-type
- value type
- Voldemort type
- wild-type
- wild type
individual that represents the ideal for its class
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: ruumiillistuma
- German: Typ (de) m
- Greek: τύπος (el) m (týpos)
- Hungarian: archetípus (hu)
- Italian: archetipo (it) m
- Latvian: tips m
- Persian: تیپ (fa) (tip), جوره (jure)
- Portuguese: tipo (pt) m
- Russian: представи́тель (ru) m (predstavítelʹ), обра́зчик (ru) m (obrázčik)
- Scottish Gaelic: seòrsa m, gnè f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: tipo (es)
- Telugu: వర్గం (te) (vargaṁ)
printing block letter/character
- Armenian: տպատառ (hy) (tpataṙ), լիտեր (hy) (liter)
- Azerbaijani: liter
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: kirjasin (fi) (block); kirjasinlaji (fi) (set of types of one font)
- French: caractère (fr) m
- Georgian: შრიფტი (šripṭi)
- German: Letter (de) f, Type (de) f
- Greek: χαρακτήρες (el) m or pl (charaktíres)
- Latvian: burtstabiņš m, litera f
- Polish: czcionka (pl) f
- Portuguese: tipo (pt) m
- Russian: ли́тера (ru) f (lítera), шрифт (ru) m (šrift)
- Scottish Gaelic: clò m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Telugu: చిహ్నము (te) (cihnamu)
- Vietnamese: chữ in
corpus linguistics: a word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs
theology: event or person that prefigures or foreshadows
computing theory: tag indicating data type
- Asturian: tipu m
- Bulgarian: тип (bg) m (tip)
- Catalan: tipus (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Czech: typ (cs) m
- Finnish: tyyppi (fi)
- French: type (fr) m
- German: Typ (de) m, Typus (de) m
- Greek: τύπος (el) m (týpos)
- Hungarian: típus (hu), adattípus (hu)
- Icelandic: tag n
- Italian: tipo (it) m
- Japanese: 型 (ja) (かた, kata)
- Korean: 형 (ko) (hyeong)
- Persian: نوع (fa)
- Polish: typ (pl) m
- Portuguese: tipo (pt) m
- Russian: тип (ru) m (tip)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: typ m
- Slovene: tip m
- Spanish: tipo (es) m
- Telugu: టైపు చేయు (ṭaipu cēyu)
- Ukrainian: тип (uk) m (typ)
- Vietnamese: kiểu (vi)
fine arts: original object, which becomes the subject of a copy
chemistry: simple compound, used as a mode or pattern
mathematics: part of the partition of the object domain
type (third-person singular simple present types, present participle typing, simple past and past participle typed)
- To put text on paper using a typewriter.
- To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
- To determine the blood type of.
The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion.
- To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
- To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
- To categorize into types.
1998, Dana Stabenow, Fire and Ice, page 1:
It was a full load, a disparate group that he had already typed and cross-matched with their potential for future crime.
- Esperanto: tajpi
to use a typewriter
- Arabic: طَبَعَ (ar) (ṭabaʕa)
- Armenian: տպել (hy) (tpel)
- Bulgarian: пиша на машина (piša na mašina)
- Catalan: mecanografiar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Czech: psát na stroji (cs)
- Dutch: typen (nl), tikken (nl)
- Esperanto: tajpi (eo)
- Finnish: kirjoittaa koneella
- French: taper à la machine (fr), dactylographier (fr), taper (fr)
- Galician: mecanografar
- Georgian: კრეფს (ḳreps)
- German: tippen (de), Maschine schreiben, maschineschreiben (de) (obsolete), maschinenschreiben, maschinschreiben (Austrian), mit der Schreibmaschine schreiben
- Greek: δακτυλογραφώ (el) (daktylografó)
- Hungarian: gépel (hu), legépel (hu)
- Irish: clóscríobh
- Italian: dattilografare (it)
- Japanese: 打つ (ja) (うつ, utsu), 打鍵する (だけんする, daken suru), タイプする (ja) (taipu suru), タイプライターで打つ (taipuraitā de utsu)
- Korean: 타자하다 (tajahada), 타이프하다 (taipeuhada)
- Malay: menaip
- Maori: patopato
- Portuguese: datilografar (pt)
- Russian: писа́ть на маши́нке impf (pisátʹ na mašínke), печа́тать (ru) impf (pečátatʹ), напеча́тать (ru) pf (napečátatʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: taidhp, clò-sgrìobh
- Spanish: escribir a máquina, mecanografiar (es), tipear (es), dactilografiar (es)
- Swedish: maskinskriva
- Turkish: tuşlamak (tr)
- Vietnamese: đánh máy (vi), đánh chữ (vi)
- Welsh: teipio (cy)
to enter characters into a computer using keyboard
- Arabic: طَبَعَ (ar) (ṭabaʕa)
- Armenian: տպել (hy) (tpel)
- Biatah Bidayuh: naip
- Catalan: teclejar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Danish: indtaste, taste (da)
- Dutch: typen (nl), intikken (nl), inkloppen (nl) (informal)
- Esperanto: tajpi (eo)
- Finnish: kirjoittaa (fi), näppäillä (fi), näpyttää, naputtaa (fi)
- French: taper (fr), dactylographier (fr)
- German: tippen (de)
- Greek: πληκτρολογώ (el) (pliktrologó)
- Hebrew: הִקְלִיד (he) (hiklid)
- Hungarian: gépel (hu), bepötyög (hu) (informal)
- Ido: mashin-skribar (io)
- Indonesian: mengetik (id)
- Irish: clóscríobh
- Italian: digitare (it)
- Japanese: 打つ (ja) (うつ, utsu), 打鍵する (だけんする, daken suru), タイプする (ja) (taipu suru)
- Korean: 타자하다 (tajahada)
- Maori: patopato
- Persian: تایپ کردن (tâyp kardan)
- Polish: wpisywać (pl) impf
- Portuguese: digitar (pt)
- Russian: печа́тать (ru) impf (pečátatʹ), напеча́тать (ru) pf (napečátatʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: taidhp, clò-sgrìobh
- Spanish: teclear (es), tipear (es)
- Thai: พิมพ์ (th) (pim)
- Turkish: tuşlamak (tr)
- Vietnamese: gõ (vi) (informal), đánh máy (vi), đánh chữ (vi)
- Welsh: teipio (cy)
type (not comparable)
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, rare) Very, extremely.
2007 September 16, Alex Mindlin, quoting David Helene, “’Our Year Is the Most Competitive Year in the History of College Applications. Or Something Like That.’”, in The New York Times[3], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-19:
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."
2023 December 19, @chillimnotacop, Twitter[4], archived from the original on 20 December 2023:
I'm ngl you're type ugly too
- “type adv.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
- Hyphenation: ty‧pe
From Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from τύπτω (túptō, “I strike, beat”).
type n (plural types or typen, diminutive typetje n)
- type: a class, someone or something from a class. The diminutive is used when made into a caricature
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
type
Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos).
type m (plural types)
- type; sort, kind
- (colloquial) guy, bloke, man
- (typography) typeface
type (plural types)
- “type”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
type
From Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos).
type m (definite singular typen, indefinite plural typer, definite plural typene)
- a type (kind, sort)
- typeface
- (slang) a male person, a boy or man
- (slang) someone's boyfriend
Typen til Anne.
- Anne's boyfriend.
- “type” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
From Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos).
type m (definite singular typen, indefinite plural typar, definite plural typane)
- a type (kind, sort)
- “type” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.