different between stereotype vs paradigm

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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Swedish

Adjective

stereotype

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of stereotyp.

English

Alternative forms

• paradigma

Etymology

Established 1475-85 from Late Latin parad?gma, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (parádeigma, “pattern”), from ???????????? (paradeíknumi, “I show [beside] or compare”) + -?? (-ma, “forming nouns concerning the results of actions”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pæ.??.da?m/
• (US) enPR: ?pär.?.d?m, IPA^(key): /?pæ?.?.da?m/, /?p??.?.da?m/, /?pe??.?.da?m/

  (Mary–marry–merry merger)

Noun

paradigm (plural paradigms or paradigmata)

1. A pattern, a way of doing something, especially (now often derogatory) a pattern of thought, a system of beliefs, a conceptual framework.

   Synonyms: model, worldview

2. An example serving as the model for such a pattern.

   Synonyms: template, exemplar, posterboy

   • 2000, "Estate of William F. Jenkins v. Paramount Pictures Corp.":

   • 2003, Nicholas Asher and Alex Lascarides, Logics of Conversation, Cambridge University Press, ?ISBN, page 46:

3. (linguistics) A set of all forms which contain a common element, especially the set of all inflectional forms of a word or a particular grammatical category.

Synonyms

• (exemplar): Thesaurus:exemplar, Thesaurus:model

Hyponyms

• programming paradigm

Derived terms

Translations

References

• “paradigm”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• “paradigm” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "paradigm" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.