type

plural types

1. A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.

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

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   Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.

   2012 March 28, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 128

   1. literatureclassification of texts according to their literary style
2. 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, Pat Conroy, The Great Santini, page 4

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   Look, with these gals that want to buy it, most of them are older, dignified. Social Register types, you know what I mean? They can't be trotting down to Times Square to pick out the merchandise. They got to have some kind of, uh, middleman.

   1969, Waldo Salt, Midnight Cowboy, spoken by Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman), United Artists

3. 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, Mary Rose Godfrey, Loyal, volume 3, page 116

4. A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
   1. uncountablemediaSuch types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
   2. uncountablemediaText printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.

      The headline was set in bold type.

5. biologySomething, 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 March 20, Greg Mayer, “Who is the type specimen of Homo sapiens?”, in Why Evolution Is True

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   Musca domestica is the type-species of Musca, a genus originally created by Linnaeus for a variety of higher Diptera, many of which are now known to be in other families.

   2015 December 16, “What's in a fly?”, in Natural History Museum, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2020

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

   He was exactly her type.

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   We can't get along: he's just not my type.

7. medicineA blood group.
8. corpus linguisticsA word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.

   Synonyms: type-word

9. lifestyleAn event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
10. computingA tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations.

    Synonyms: data type

11. fine artsThe 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. chemistryA 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. mathematicsA 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.

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    Logics of the second and higher orders may be regarded as type-theoretic systems.

    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

14. obsolete except in the above special sensesA symbol, emblem, or example of something.

present singular third person types · participle present typing · participle past typed · past typed

1. To put text on paper using a typewriter.
2. To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
3. To determine the blood type of.

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

4. To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
5. To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.

   Let us type them now in our own lives.

   1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC

6. 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, Dana Stabenow, Fire and Ice, page 1

1. not comparablerareslangAfrican-American VernacularVery, extremely.

   I'm ngl you're type ugly too

   2023 December 19, @chillimnotacop, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2023

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   I don't think Brooklyn slang is that different from Manhattan slang. But I'm not used to a lot of the slang my friends use. Months ago, I first heard, "There are mad heads here." I was like, "Where did that come from?" For a while they were saying, "That's type funny." I was like: "What? What do you mean by that?" It means "very funny." Or they were like, "That's dumb stupid." I'm like, "That's redundant."

   2007 September 16, Alex Mindlin, quoting David Helene, “'Our Year Is the Most Competitive Year in the History of College Applications. Or Something Like That.'”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2023

   Yeah, the fat bitch is type-slow.

   2012, Jason Hooper, Some Things Are Better Left Untold, West Conshohocken, P.A.: Infinity Publishing, →ISBN, page 20

   Standing before me was a grown ass woman. She was type thick, with nice size succulent breasts, and a nice plumped ass. Cadence was stacked.

   2017, Treasure Malian, In Love With the King of Miami, Atlanta, G.A.: Royalty Publishing House, →ISBN, page 17

   Synonyms: mad, hella, wicked, dumb, dummy, odee, bare