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type
English
Etymology
From Middle English type (“symbol, figure, emblem”), from Latin typus, from Ancient Greek ????? (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from ????? (túpt?, “I strike, beat”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ta?p/
- Rhymes: -a?p
Noun
type (plural types)
- 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.
- 1872, Mary Rose Godfrey, Loyal, volume 3, page 116:
- Altogether he was the type of low ruffianism — as ill-conditioned a looking brute as ever ginned a hare.
- 1872, Mary Rose Godfrey, Loyal, volume 3, page 116:
- (printing, countable) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
- (uncountable) Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
- (chiefly uncountable) Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.
- The headline was set in bold type.
- (taxonomy) 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.
- (medicine) 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.
- (theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
- (computing theory) A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.
- (fine arts) 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.
- (chemistry) 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.
- The fundamental types used to express the simplest and most essential chemical relations are hydrochloric acid, water, ammonia, and methane.
- (mathematics) 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.)
- 2011, V.N. Grishin (originator), "Types, theory of", in Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Types,_theory_of&oldid=14150
- Logics of the second and higher orders may be regarded as type-theoretic systems.
- 2011, V.N. Grishin (originator), "Types, theory of", in Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Types,_theory_of&oldid=14150
Synonyms
- (grouping based on shared characteristics): category, class, genre, group, kind, nature, sort, stripe, tribe
- (computing theory): data type
- (printing): sort
- (mathematics): sort
- See also Thesaurus:class
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???
- ? Korean: ?? (taip)
Translations
Verb
type (third-person singular simple present types, present participle typing, simple past and past participle typed)
- 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.
- Let us type them now in our own lives.
- To categorize into types.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Esperanto: tajpi
Translations
References
- type at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- pyet
Dutch
Etymology
From Latin typus, from Ancient Greek ????? (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from ????? (túpt?, “I strike, beat”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ty?pe
Noun
type n (plural types or typen, diminutive typetje n)
- type: a class, someone or something from a class. The diminutive is used when made into a caricature.
Derived terms
- woningtype
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: tipe
Verb
type
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of typen
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin typus, from Ancient Greek ????? (túpos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tip/
Noun
type m (plural types)
- type; sort, kind
- (colloquial) guy, bloke, man
- (typography) typeface
Descendants
- ? Polish: typ
- ? Romanian: tip
Adjective
type (plural types)
- typical, normal, classic
- (statistics) standard
Further reading
- “type” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Noun
type
- vocative singular of typus
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (túpos).
Noun
type m (definite singular typen, indefinite plural typer, definite plural typene)
- a type (kind, sort)
- typeface
- (slang) a male person, a boy or man
- (slang) someone's boyfriend
References
- “type” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (túpos).
Noun
type m (definite singular typen, indefinite plural typar, definite plural typane)
- a type (kind, sort)
References
- “type” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
type From the web:
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distinguish
English
Etymology
From Middle English distingwen, from Old French distinguer, from Latin distinguere (“to separate, divide, distinguish, set off, adorn, literally mark off”), from di-, dis- (“apart”) + stinguere. Compare extinguish.
Pronunciation
- enPR: d?s-t?ng?gw?sh, IPA(key): /d?s?t???w??/
- Rhymes: -???w??
- Hyphenation: dis?tin?guish
Verb
distinguish (third-person singular simple present distinguishes, present participle distinguishing, simple past and past participle distinguished)
- To recognize someone or something as different from others based on its characteristics.
- Synonyms: differentiate, discriminate; see also Thesaurus:tell apart
- Antonym: confuse
- To see someone or something clearly or distinctly.
- To make oneself noticeably different or better from others through accomplishments.
- 1784: William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c., PREFACE
- THE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Per?ons of the fir?t di?tinction, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ?everal new improvements in order to give it a degree of Perfection; and di?tingui?h it from others; which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.
- 1784: William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c., PREFACE
- (transitive, obsolete) To make to differ.
Usage notes
In sense “see a difference”, more casual than differentiate or the formal discriminate; more casual is “tell the difference”.
Derived terms
- distinguished
- distinguishable
- distinguishing
- distinguishness
- undistinguishing
Related terms
- distinct
- distinction
- extinguish
Translations
Further reading
- distinguish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- distinguish in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
distinguish From the web:
- what distinguishes atherosclerosis from arteriosclerosis
- what distinguishes mass from weight
- what distinguishes one element from another
- what distinguishes rainforests from temperate forests
- what distinguishes a substance from a mixture
- what distinguishes bacteria from archaea
- what distinguishes a neutral atom from an ion
- what distinguishes the savanna and grassland biomes
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