| Noun | 1. | 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 | |
| 4. | type - printed characters; "small type is hard to read"type family - a complete set of type suitable for printing text | |
| 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 | |
| Verb | 1. | 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" | |
| 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" | |