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Type   /taɪp/   Listen
Type

noun
1.
A subdivision of a particular kind of thing.
2.
A person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities).  Synonyms: case, character, eccentric.  "A strange character" , "A friendly eccentric" , "The capable type" , "A mental case"
3.
(biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon.
4.
Printed characters.
5.
All of the tokens of the same symbol.
6.
A small metal block bearing a raised character on one end; produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper.
verb
(past & past part. typed; pres. part. typing)
1.
Write by means of a keyboard with types.  Synonym: typewrite.
2.
Identify as belonging to a certain type.  Synonym: typecast.



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"Type" Quotes from Famous Books



... fair sample," I said. "He is a quahaug, although he doesn't know it. He is a certain type, an ...
— Kent Knowles: Quahaug • Joseph C. Lincoln
... and arresting type. Without being pretty in the European sense, there was something appealing in her fine, dark eyes, and she possessed the inviting smile which is the heritage of Eastern women. Her dress was not unlike that of any other business girl, except that the neck of her blouse ...
— Tales of Chinatown • Sax Rohmer
... dressed in rough garb—belted woolen jacket, trousers awkwardly patched, leggings rolled above the knee, and yellow moccasins. Although he was the ordinary type of the woods recluse, there was kindliness in his expression, as well as a benignant gleam in his ...
— The Rainy Day Railroad War • Holman Day
... of mind Rousseau appears as a noble prophet of what is permanent in evangelic "truth" and of what is desirable and lovely in the future of humanity. To other types—to the pronounced classical or Goethean type, for instance—he must appear as the most pernicious, the most disintegrating, the most poisonous, the most unhealthy influence that has ever been brought to bear upon the world. Such minds—confronting him with a genuine and logical anarchist, such as Max Stirner—would find ...
— Suspended Judgments - Essays on Books and Sensations • John Cowper Powys
... it must be remembered, the type of Britisher one finds in Persia is a specially talented, enterprising and well-to-do individual, whose ideas have been greatly broadened by the study of several foreign languages which, in many cases, have taken him on the Continent for several years in his youth. Furthermore, lacking ...
— Across Coveted Lands - or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland • Arnold Henry Savage Landor


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