type

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English type (“symbol, figure, emblem”), from Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from τύπτω (túptō, “I strike, beat”). === Pronunciation === enPR: tīp IPA(key): /taɪp/ Rhymes: -aɪp Hyphenation: type === Noun === type (plural types) A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class. An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc. An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment. (printing, countable) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block. (uncountable) Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size. (chiefly uncountable) Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics. The headline was set in bold type. (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. Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to. (medicine) A blood group. (corpus linguistics) A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token. Synonym: type-word (theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times. (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. (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. (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. (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 "data type" in computing theory.) 2011, V.N. Grishin (originator), "Types, theory of", in Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Types,_theory_of&oldid=14150 Logics of the second and higher orders may be regarded as type-theoretic systems. (obsolete except in the above special senses) A symbol, emblem, or example of something. ==== Synonyms ==== (grouping based on shared characteristics): category, class, genre, group, kind, nature, sort, stripe, tribe (printing block letter/character): sort (mathematics): sort See also Thesaurus:class ==== Hyponyms ==== (computing theory): built-in type, composite type, primitive type, user-defined type (printing block letter/character): movable type ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Japanese: タイプ → Korean: 타입 (taip) ==== Translations ==== === Verb === type (third-person singular simple present types, present participle typing, simple past and past participle typed) 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. To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure. To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify. To categorize into types. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Esperanto: tajpi → Malay: taip ==== Translations ==== === Adverb === type (not comparable) (African-American Vernacular, slang, rare) Very, extremely. Synonyms: mad, hella, wicked, dumb, dummy, (NYC) odee, (MLE, MTE) bare === References === “type adv.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present === Anagrams === pyet == Danish == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos). === Noun === type c (singular definite typen, plural indefinite typer) a type (kind, sort) Coordinate terms: slags, art ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === “type” in Den Danske Ordbog == Dutch == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈti.pə/ Hyphenation: ty‧pe === Etymology 1 === From Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from τύπτω (túptō, “I strike, beat”). ==== Noun ==== type n (plural types or typen, diminutive typetje n) type: a class, someone or something from a class. The diminutive is used when made into a caricature ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== → Indonesian: tipe Petjo: tiep === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== type (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of typen == French == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tip/ === Noun === type m (plural types) type; sort, kind (colloquial) guy, bloke, man (typography) typeface ==== Derived terms ==== type générique ==== Descendants ==== → Polish: typ → Romanian: tip → Persian: تیپ (tip) → Turkish: tip === Adjective === type (plural types) typical, normal, classic (statistics) standard ==== Derived terms ==== écart type === Further reading === “type”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Latin == === Noun === type vocative singular of typus == Norwegian Bokmål == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos). === Noun === type m (definite singular typen, indefinite plural typer, definite plural typene) a type (kind, sort) typeface (slang) a male personality 63, a boy or man (slang) someone's boyfriend === References === “type” in The Bokmål Dictionary. == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos). === Noun === type m (definite singular typen, indefinite plural typar, definite plural typane) a type (kind, sort) === References === “type” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.