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Type

Noun1.type - a subdivision of a particular kind of thing; "what type of sculpture do you prefer?"
kind, sort, form, variety - a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality; "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?"
nature - a particular type of thing; "problems of this type are very difficult to solve"; "he's interested in trains and things of that nature"; "matters of a personal nature"
version, edition, variant, variation - something a little different from others of the same type; "an experimental version of the night fighter"; "an emery wheel is a modern variant of the grindstone"; "the boy is a younger edition of his father"
antitype - an opposite or contrasting type
2.type - a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities); "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case"
adult, grownup - a fully developed person from maturity onward
3.type - (biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon
biological science, biology - the science that studies living organisms
taxon, taxonomic category, taxonomic group - animal or plant group having natural relations
4.type - printed characters; "small type is hard to read"
grapheme, graphic symbol, character - a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters"
type family - a complete set of type suitable for printing text
font, fount, typeface, face - a specific size and style of type within a type family
5.type - a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end; produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper; "he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up"
block - a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides); "the pyramids were built with large stone blocks"
quad, space - (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words
6.type - all of the tokens of the same symbol; "the word `element' contains five different types of character"
symbol - an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance
Verb1.type - write by means of a keyboard with types; "type the acceptance letter, please"
write - communicate or express by writing; "Please write to me every week"
shift - use a shift key on a keyboard; "She could not shift so all ther letters are written in lower case"
backspace - hit the backspace key on a computer or typewriter keyboard; "To erase, you must backspace"
double-space - type with a full space between lines
triple-space - type with two empty spaces between lines
touch-type - type without looking at the keyboard
2.type - identify as belonging to a certain type; "Such people can practically be typed"
identify - consider to be equal or the same; "He identified his brother as one of the fugitives"

 

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