Etymology

From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#TYPECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#TYPE type (“symbol, figure, emblem”), from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#TYPE typus, from Ancient GreekCategory:English terms derived from Ancient Greek#TYPE τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from τύπτω (túptō, “to strike, beat”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: tīp
• IPA^(key): /taɪp/Category:English 1-syllable words#TYPECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TYPE

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪpCategory:Rhymes:English/aɪp#TYPECategory:Rhymes:English/aɪp/1 syllable#TYPE
• Hyphenation: type

Noun

type (plural types)Category:English lemmas#TYPECategory:English nouns#TYPECategory:English countable nouns#TYPECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TYPECategory:Pages with entries#TYPECategory:Pages with 7 entries#TYPE

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

   This type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane.Category:English terms with usage examples#TYPE

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

     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.

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2. An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
   • 1969, Waldo Salt, Midnight Cowboy, spoken by Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman), United Artists:

     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.

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   • 2002, Pat Conroy, The Great Santini, page 4:

     "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."

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3. An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
   • 1872, Mary Rose Godfrey, Loyal, volume 3, page 116:

     Altogether he was the type of low ruffianism — as ill-conditioned a looking brute as ever ginned a hare.

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5. (printingCategory:en:Printing#TYPE, countableCategory:English countable nouns#TYPE) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
   1. (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#TYPE) Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
   2. (chiefly uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#TYPE) Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.

      The headline was set in bold type.

6. (taxonomyCategory:en:Taxonomy#TYPE) Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.
   • 2009 March 20, Greg Mayer, “Who is the type specimen of Homo sapiens?”, in Why Evolution Is True‎:

     ...thus Stearn has designated Linnaeus as the type specimen of Homo sapiens

     Category:English terms with quotations#TYPE

   • 2015 December 16, “What's in a fly?”, in Natural History Museum‎:

     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.

     Category:English terms with quotations#TYPE

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

   We can't get along: he's just not my type.Category:English terms with usage examples#TYPE

   He was exactly her type.Category:English terms with usage examples#TYPE

8. (medicineCategory:en:Medicine#TYPE) A blood group.
9. (corpus linguistics) A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.

   Synonym: type-word

10. (theologyCategory:en:Theology#TYPE) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
12. (computing theoryCategory:en:Theory of computing#TYPE) A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations.

    Synonym: data type

13. (fine arts) 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.
14. (chemistryCategory:en:Chemistry#TYPE) 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#TYPE

15. (mathematicsCategory:en:Mathematics#TYPE) A 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.)
    • 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

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

    Categorial grammar is like a combination of context-free grammar and types.Category:English terms with usage examples#TYPE

16. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#TYPE except in the above special senses) A symbol, emblem, or example of something.

Verb

type (third-person singular simple present types, present participle typing, simple past and past participle typed)Category:English lemmas#TYPECategory:English verbs#TYPECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TYPECategory:Pages with entries#TYPECategory:Pages with 7 entries#TYPE

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.Category:English terms with usage examples#TYPE

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

     Let us type them now in our own lives.

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6. To categorize into types.
   • 1998, Dana Stabenow, Fire and Ice, page 1:

     It was a full load, a disparate group that he had already typed and cross-matched with their potential for future crime.

     Category:English terms with quotations#TYPE

Adverb

type (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#TYPECategory:English adverbs#TYPECategory:English uncomparable adverbs#TYPECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TYPECategory:Pages with entries#TYPECategory:Pages with 7 entries#TYPE

2. (African-American VernacularCategory:African-American Vernacular English#TYPE, slangCategory:English slang#TYPE, rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#TYPE) Very, extremely.

   Synonyms: mad, hella, wicked, dumb, dummy, (NYC) odee, (MLE, MTE) bare

   • 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 February 2023:

     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."

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

     Yeah, the fat bitch is type-slow.

     Category:English terms with quotations#TYPE

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

     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.

     Category:English terms with quotations#TYPE

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

     I'm ngl you're type ugly too

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References

• “type adv.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present.

Anagrams

• pyet

Etymology

From Ancient GreekCategory:Danish terms derived from Ancient Greek#TYPE τύπος (túpos).

Noun

type c (singular definite typen, plural indefinite typer)Category:Danish lemmas#TYPECategory:Danish nouns#TYPECategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#TYPECategory:Danish common-gender nouns#TYPECategory:Pages with entries#TYPECategory:Pages with 7 entries#TYPE

1. a type (kind, sort)

   Coordinate terms: slags, art

References

• “type” in Den Danske Ordbog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈti.pə/Category:Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation#TYPE

• Audio:

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  Category:Dutch terms with audio pronunciation#TYPE
• Hyphenation: ty‧pe

Etymology 1

From LatinCategory:Dutch terms derived from Latin#TYPE typus, from Ancient GreekCategory:Dutch terms derived from Ancient Greek#TYPE τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from τύπτω (túptō, “to strike, beat”).

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Etymology

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical LatinCategory:French terms borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin#TYPECategory:French terms derived from Ecclesiastical Latin#TYPE typus, from Ancient GreekCategory:French terms derived from Ancient Greek#TYPE τύπος (túpos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tip/Category:French 1-syllable words#TYPECategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#TYPE

• Audio:

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  Category:French terms with audio pronunciation#TYPE

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

  Category:French terms with audio pronunciation#TYPE

Noun

type m (plural types)Category:French lemmas#TYPECategory:French nouns#TYPECategory:French countable nouns#TYPECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#TYPECategory:French masculine nouns#TYPECategory:Pages with entries#TYPECategory:Pages with 7 entries#TYPE

1. type; sort, kind
2. (colloquialCategory:French colloquialisms#TYPE) guy, bloke, man
3. (typographyCategory:fr:Typography#TYPE) typeface

Adjective

type (plural types)Category:French lemmas#TYPECategory:French adjectives#TYPECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#TYPECategory:Pages with entries#TYPECategory:Pages with 7 entries#TYPE

1. typical, normal, classic
2. (statisticsCategory:fr:Statistics#TYPE) standard

Further reading

• “type”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Noun

typeCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#TYPECategory:Latin noun forms#TYPECategory:Latin terms spelled with Y#TYPECategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#TYPECategory:Pages with entries#TYPECategory:Pages with 7 entries#TYPE

1. vocative singular of typus

Etymology

From Ancient GreekCategory:Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Ancient Greek#TYPE τύπος (túpos).

Noun

type m (definite singular typen, indefinite plural typer, definite plural typene)Category:Norwegian Bokmål lemmas#TYPECategory:Norwegian Bokmål nouns#TYPECategory:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#TYPECategory:Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns#TYPECategory:Pages with entries#TYPECategory:Pages with 7 entries#TYPE

1. a type (kind, sort)
2. typeface
3. (slangCategory:Norwegian Bokmål slang#TYPE) a male personality 63, a boy or man
4. (slangCategory:Norwegian Bokmål slang#TYPE) someone's boyfriend

   Typen til Anne.

   Anne's boyfriend.

   Category:Norwegian Bokmål terms with usage examples#TYPE

References

• “type” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology

From Ancient GreekCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Ancient Greek#TYPE τύπος (túpos).

Noun

type m (definite singular typen, indefinite plural typar, definite plural typane)Category:Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas#TYPECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk nouns#TYPECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#TYPECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns#TYPECategory:Pages with entries#TYPECategory:Pages with 7 entries#TYPE

1. a type (kind, sort)

References

• “type” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.