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1. Meaning 1 · noun

   A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.

   “This type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane.”

2. Meaning 2 · noun

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

3. Meaning 3 · noun

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

4. Meaning 4 · noun

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

5. Meaning 5 · noun

   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. Meaning 6 · noun

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

   “He was exactly her type.”

7. Meaning 7 · noun

   A blood group.

8. Meaning 8 · noun

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

9. Meaning 9 · noun

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

10. Meaning 10 · noun

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

11. Meaning 11 · noun

    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. Meaning 12 · noun

    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.”

13. Meaning 13 · noun

    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.”

14. Meaning 14 · verb

    To put text on paper using a typewriter.

15. Meaning 15 · verb

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

16. Meaning 16 · verb

    To determine the blood type of.

    “The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion.”

17. Meaning 17 · verb

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

18. Meaning 18 · verb

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

19. Meaning 19 · verb

    To categorize into types.

How this word is used

• Everyday “This type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane.”
• General “He was exactly her type.”
• General “The fundamental types used to express the simplest and most essential chemical relations are hydrochloric acid, water, ammonia, and methane.”
• General “Categorial grammar is like a combination of context-free grammar and types.”
• General “The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion.”

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