type /taɪp/noun 16verb 6adverb 1forms 3phrases 3 noun16 •one of the groups that people or things are put into because they are similar in some wayThis type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane. •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. •A blood group. •A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block. •Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size. •Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.The headline was set in bold type. •An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc."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." — 2002 •An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.Altogether he was the type of low ruffianism — as ill-conditioned a looking brute as ever ginned a hare. — 1872 •A symbol, emblem, or example of something. •A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations. •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.)Categorial grammar is like a combination of context-free grammar and types. •A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token. •Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical....thus Stearn has designated Linnaeus as the type specimen of Homo sapiens — 2009 •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. •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. •An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times. verb6 •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 categorize into types.It was a full load, a disparate group that he had already typed and cross-matched with their potential for future crime. — 1998 •To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.Let us type them now in our own lives. — 1847 •To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure. adverb1 •(slang, rare) Very, extremely.Yeah, the fat bitch is type-slow. — 2012 formstyped · typing · types Phrases with type primitive typeA data type provided by a programming language as a basic building block, such as integer, character or Boolean. type outTo write out on a computer keyboard. type upTo type (a document) in its final, presentable form.
