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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.
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pigeonhole
English
Alternative forms
- pigeon-hole
- pigeon hole
Etymology
pigeon +? hole.
Originally literal hole for pigeons, later similar compartments for paper, then extended metaphorically in verb sense of narrowly categorizing or deferring.
Pronunciation
Noun
pigeonhole (plural pigeonholes)
- One of an array of compartments for housing pigeons.
- One of an array of compartments for receiving mail and other messages at a college, office, etc.
- Fred was disappointed to find his pigeonhole empty except for bills and a flyer offering 20% off on manicures.
- One of an array of compartments for storing scrolls at a library.
- A similar compartment in a desk, used for sorting and storing papers.
Translations
Verb
pigeonhole (third-person singular simple present pigeonholes, present participle pigeonholing, simple past and past participle pigeonholed)
- To categorize; especially to limit or be limited to a particular category, role, etc.
- Fred was tired of being pigeonholed as a computer geek.
- 1902, Jack London, A Daughter of the Snows
- He prided himself on his largeness when he granted that there were three kinds of women... Not that he pigeon-holed Frona according to his inherited definitions.
- To put aside, to not act on (proposals, suggestions, advice).
- 1910, Angus Hamilton, Herbert Henry Austin, Masatake Terauchi, Korea: Its History, Its People, and Its Commerce, page 294
- These laws were not carried into effect: they were pigeon-holed.
- 1917, The Crisis, November 1917 issue, The Looking Glass: Election laws in Southern California, page 29
- [...] vociferously declared that they had the evidence. But no one prosecutes. No one swears out a warrant. The evidence is pigeonholed.
- 2008, Edward Sidlow, Beth Henschen, America at Odds, page 251
- Alternatively, the chairperson may decide to put the bill aside and ignore it. Most bills that are pigeonholed in this manner receive no further action.
- 1910, Angus Hamilton, Herbert Henry Austin, Masatake Terauchi, Korea: Its History, Its People, and Its Commerce, page 294
Synonyms
- (not act on): mothball, shelve, table, glove box
Translations
Derived terms
- pidge
Related terms
- pigeonhole principle
- pigeonholeable
- pigeonholer
See also
- cubbyhole
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