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Audio Help [ster-ee-uh-tahyp, steer-] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, -typed, -typ·ing. | 1. | a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal. |
| 2. | a plate made by this process. |
| 3. | a set form; convention. |
| 4. | Sociology. a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group: The cowboy and Indian are American stereotypes. |
| 5. | to make a stereotype of. |
| 6. | to characterize or regard as a stereotype: The actor has been stereotyped as a villain. |
| 7. | to give a fixed form to. |
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Audio Help [ster-ee-uh-tip-ik, steer-] Pronunciation Key, ster·e·o·typ·i·cal, adjective | Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006. |
stereotype
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| ster·e·o·type
Audio Help (stěr'ē-ə-tīp', stîr'-) Pronunciation Key
n.
tr.v. ster·e·o·typed, ster·e·o·typ·ing, ster·e·o·types
[French stéréotype, stereotype printing : stéréo-, solid (from Greek stereo-; see stereo-) + type, printing type (from Old French, symbol, from Late Latin typus; see type).] ster'e·o·typ'er n., ster'e·o·typ'ic (-tĭp'ĭk), ster'e·o·typ'i·cal (-ĭ-kəl) adj., ster'e·o·typ'i·cal·ly adv. |
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stereotype
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| stereotype | |
noun | |
| 1. | a conventional or formulaic conception or image; "regional stereotypes have been part of America since its founding" |
verb | |
| 1. | treat or classify according to a mental stereotype; "I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European" [syn: pigeonhole] |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
stereotype
A too-simple and therefore distorted image of a group, such as “Football players are stupid” or “The English are cold and unfriendly people.”
[Chapter:] Conventions of Written English
| The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
stereotype
A generalization, usually exaggerated or oversimplified and often offensive, that is used to describe or distinguish a group.
[Chapter:] Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology
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Main Entry: 2stereotype
Function: noun
: something conforming to a fixed or general pattern; especially : an often oversimplified or biased
mental picture held to characterize the typical individual of a group —ste·reo·typ·i·cal /"ster-E-&-'tip-i-k&l/ also
ste·reo·typ·ic /-ik/ adjective
| Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc. |
Main Entry: 1ste·reo·type
Pronunciation: 'ster-E-&-"tIp, 'stir-
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: -typed;
-typ·ing
1 : to repeat without variation <stereotyped behavior>
2 : to develop a mental stereotype about
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Stereotype
Ste"re*o*type\, n. [Stereo- + -type: cf. F. st['e]r['e]otype.]1. A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with type-metal face, used for printing. Note: A stereotype, or stereotypr plate, is made by setting movable type as for ordinary printing; from these a cast is taken in plaster of Paris, paper pulp, or the like, and upon this cast melted type metal is poured, which, when hardened, makes a solid page or column, from which the impression is taken as from type. 2. The art or process of making such plates, or of executing work by means of them. Stereotype block, a block, usually of wood, to which a stereotype plate is attached while being used in printing.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Stereotype
Ste"re*o*type\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stereotyped; p. pr. & vb. n. Stereotyping.] [Cf. F. st['e]r['e]otyper.]1. To prepare for printing in stereotype; to make the stereotype plates of; as, to stereotype the Bible. 2. Fig.: To make firm or permanent; to fix. Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions. --Duke of Argyll (1887).| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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