type

A1
Pronunciation
/taɪp/
Noun
13 definition(s)
1 Definition

A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.

Example Sentences
  • This type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane.
2 Definition

An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.

3 Definition

An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.

4 Definition

A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.

5 Definition

Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.

6 Definition

Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.

Example Sentences
  • He was exactly her type.
7 Definition

A blood group.

8 Definition

(corpus linguistics) A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.

9 Definition

An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.

10 Definition

A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.

11 Definition

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.

12 Definition

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.

Example Sentences
  • The fundamental types used to express the simplest and most essential chemical relations are hydrochloric acid, water, ammonia, and methane.
13 Definition

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.)

Example Sentences
  • Categorial grammar is like a combination of context-free grammar and types.
Verb
6 definition(s)
1 Definition

To put text on paper using a typewriter.

2 Definition

To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.

3 Definition

To determine the blood type of.

Example Sentences
  • The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion.
4 Definition

To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.

5 Definition

To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.

6 Definition

To categorize into types.