| type | |
| 1. n. A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class. | |
| This type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane. | |
| 2. n. An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc. | |
| 3. n. An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment. | |
| 4. n. (printing) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block. | |
| 5. n. Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size. | |
| 6. n. (chiefly un) Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics. | |
| The headline was set in bold type. | |
| 7. n. (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. | |
| the type of a genus, family, etc. | |
| 8. n. 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. | |
| 9. n. (medicine) A blood group. | |
| 10. n. (theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times. | |
| 11. n. (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. | |
| 12. n. (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. | |
| 13. n. (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. | |
| 14. n. (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 | |
| Categorial grammar is like a combination of context-free grammar and types. | |
| 15. v. To put text on paper using a typewriter. | |
| 16. v. To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard. | |
| 17. v. To determine the blood type of. | |
| The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion. | |
| 18. v. To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure. | |
| 19. v. To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify. | |
| 20. v. To categorize into types. | |
