type

A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.

Adverb

  1. Very, extremely.
    • 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?"...
    • 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.:...

    Synonyms: mad hella wicked dumb dummy odee bare

Origin

From Middle English type (“symbol, figure, emblem”), from Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from τύπτω (túptō, “to strike, beat”).

Noun

  1. A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
    • This type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane.
    • 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...
  2. An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
    • 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...
    • "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:
  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. (uncountable) Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.

    2. (chiefly uncountable) Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.

      • The headline was set in bold type.
  5. 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 March 20, Greg Mayer, “Who is the type specimen of Homo sapiens?”, in Why Evolution Is True:
    • 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...
  6. 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.
  7. A blood group.
  8. A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.

    Synonyms: type-word

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

    Synonyms: data type

  11. 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. 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.

Forms

types

Synonyms

category class genre group kind nature sort stripe tribe hue

Hyponyms

built-in type composite type primitive type user-defined type movable type

Derived

abstract data type abstract type aftertype algebraic data type allotype antitype archetype A-type conflict bastard type body type book type bottom type cell type chronotype constitutional type cotype C-type conflict delegate-type early-type star electrotype epitype E-type chondrite existential type file type

Verb

  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:

Forms

types typing typed

Derived

search-as-you-type search as you type type out type up typing typist