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,noun, verb, typed, typ⋅ing.| 1. | a number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics, that causes them to be regarded as a group, more or less precisely defined or designated; class; category: a criminal of the most vicious type. |
| 2. | a thing or person regarded as a member of a class or category; kind; sort (usually fol. by of): This is some type of mushroom. |
| 3. | Informal. a person, regarded as reflecting or typifying a certain line of work, environment, etc.: a couple of civil service types. |
| 4. | a thing or person that represents perfectly or in the best way a class or category; model: the very type of a headmaster. |
| 5. | Printing.
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| 6. | Biology.
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| 7. | Agriculture.
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| 8. | Logic, Linguistics. Also called type-word. the general form of a word, expression, symbol, or the like in contrast to its particular instances: The type “and” in “red and white and blue” has two separate tokens. Compare token (def. 8). |
| 9. | the pattern or model from which something is made. |
| 10. | an image or figure produced by impressing or stamping, as the principal figure or device on either side of a coin or medal. |
| 11. | a distinctive or characteristic mark or sign. |
| 12. | a symbol of something in the future, as an Old Testament event serving as a prefiguration of a New Testament event. |
| 13. | Medicine/Medical. blood group. |
| 14. | to write on a typewriter; typewrite or keyboard. |
| 15. | to reproduce in type or in print. |
| 16. | Medicine/Medical. to ascertain the type of (a blood or tissue sample). |
| 17. | to typecast. |
| 18. | to be a type or symbol of; typify; symbolize; represent. |
| 19. | to represent prophetically; foreshadow; prefigure. |
| 20. | to typewrite. |
| a suffix representing type (prototype), esp. in names of photographic processes: ferrotype. |
| hol·o·type (hŏl'ə-tīp', hō'lə-) n. The single specimen or illustration designated as the type for naming a species or subspecies or used as the basis for naming a species or subspecies when no type has been selected. Also called type. hol'o·typ'ic (-tĭp'ĭk) adj. |
type (tīp)  (click for larger image in new window) n.
v. tr.
To write with a typewriter; typewrite. [Middle English, symbol, from Late Latin typus, type, from Latin, image, from Greek tupos, impression.] |
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type (tīp)
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A number of people or things having in common traits or characteristics that distinguish them as a group or class.
The general character or structure held in common by a number of people or things considered as a group or class.
A person or thing having the features of a group or class.
An example or a model having the ideal features of a group or class.
A taxonomic group, especially a genus or species, chosen as the representative example in characterizing the larger taxonomic group to which it belongs.
The specimen on which the original description and naming of a taxon is based.
type theory, programming
(Or "data type") A set of values from which a variable, constant, function, or other expression may take its value. A type is a classification of data that tells the compiler or interpreter how the programmer intends to use it. For example, the process and result of adding two variables differs greatly according to whether they are integers, floating point numbers, or strings.
Types supported by most programming languages include integers (usually limited to some range so they will fit in one word of storage), Booleans, floating point numbers, and characters. Strings are also common, and are represented as lists of characters in some languages.
If s and t are types, then so is s -> t, the type of functions from s to t; that is, give them a term of type s, functions of type s -> t will return a term of type t.
Some types are primitive - built-in to the language, with no visible internal structure - e.g. Boolean; others are composite - constructed from one or more other types (of either kind) - e.g. lists, arrays, structures, unions. Object-oriented programming extends this with classes which encapsulate both the structure of a type and the operations that can be performed on it.
Some languages provide strong typing, others allow implicit type conversion and/or explicit type conversion.
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Type
occurs only once in Scripture (1 Cor. 10:11, A.V. marg.). The Greek word _tupos_ is rendered "print" (John 20:25), "figure" (Acts 7:43; Rom. 5:14), "fashion" (Acts 7:44), "manner" (Acts 23:25), "form" (Rom. 6:17), "example" or "ensample" (1 Cor. 10:6, 11; Phil. 3:17; 1 Thess. 1:7; 2 Thess. 3:9; 1 Tim. 4:12). It properly means a "model" or "pattern" or "mould" into which clay or wax was pressed, that it might take the figure or exact shape of the mould. The word "type" is generally used to denote a resemblance between something present and something future, which is called the "antitype."