different between serotype vs stereotype

English

Etymology

sero- +? -type

Noun

serotype (plural serotypes)

1. (immunology) A group of microorganisms characterised by a specific set of antigens.

Synonyms

• serostrain
• serovar

Derived terms

Verb

serotype (third-person singular simple present serotypes, present participle serotyping, simple past and past participle serotyped)

1. To assign or classify according to serotypes

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French stéréotype. Printing sense is from 1817, the “conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image” sense is recorded from 1922 in Walter Lippmann's book Public Opinion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?.?i.??ta?p/, /?st??.?i.??ta?p/

Noun

stereotype (countable and uncountable, plural stereotypes)

1. A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person).

   Synonyms: cliché, platitude

2. (psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
3. (printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.

   Synonym: cliché

4. (software engineering) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.

Derived terms

• stereotypic
• stereotypical

Translations

Verb

stereotype (third-person singular simple present stereotypes, present participle stereotyping, simple past and past participle stereotyped)

1. (transitive) To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
2. (transitive, printing) To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.

3. (transitive, printing) To print from a stereotype.
4. (transitive, figuratively) To make firm or permanent; to fix.
   • 1887, George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, Scotland as it was and as it is

     Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions.

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Adjective

stereotype

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of stereotyp.