types

/taษชps/

IPA: /T AY1 P S/

noun
  1. 1

    A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.

    โ€œThis type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane.โ€

  2. 2

    An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.

  3. 3

    An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.

  4. 4

    A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.

  5. 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.

  6. 6

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

    โ€œHe was exactly her type.โ€

  7. 7

    A blood group.

  8. 8

    (corpus linguistics) A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.

  9. 9

    An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.

  10. 10

    A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.

  11. 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. 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.

    โ€œThe fundamental types used to express the simplest and most essential chemical relations are hydrochloric acid, water, ammonia, and methane.โ€

  13. 13

    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.)

    โ€œCategorial grammar is like a combination of context-free grammar and types.โ€

verb
  1. 1

    To put text on paper using a typewriter.

  2. 2

    To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.

  3. 3

    To determine the blood type of.

    โ€œThe doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion.โ€

  4. 4

    To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.

  5. 5

    To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.

  6. 6

    To categorize into types.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/type, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/types