Phonetics:
Meanings:
noun
Definition: A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
Example: This type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane.
Definition: An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
Definition: An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
Definition: A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
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.
Definition: Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
Example: He was exactly her type.
Definition: A blood group.
Definition: (corpus linguistics) A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.
Definition: An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event – commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
Definition: A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.
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.
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: The fundamental types used to express the simplest and most essential chemical relations are hydrochloric acid, water, ammonia, and methane.
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: Categorial grammar is like a combination of context-free grammar and types.
verb
Definition: To put text on paper using a typewriter.
Definition: To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
Definition: To determine the blood type of.
Example: The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion.
Definition: To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
Definition: To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
Definition: To categorize into types.