types

[ /taɪps/ ]

phonetics

[ /taɪps/ ]

noun [part of speech]

- A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.

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

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

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

- Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.

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

- A blood group.

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

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

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

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.)

verb [part of speech]

- To put text on paper using a typewriter.

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

- To determine the blood type of.

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

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

- To categorize into types.

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