different between type vs standing

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)

1. A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.

2. An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
3. 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.

4. (printing, countable) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
   1. (uncountable) Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
   2. (chiefly uncountable) Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.

      The headline was set in bold type.

5. (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.
6. Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.

7. (medicine) A blood group.
8. (corpus linguistics) A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.
9. (theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
10. (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.
11. (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.
12. (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.

13. (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.

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)

1. To put text on paper using a typewriter.
2. To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
3. To determine the blood type of.

4. To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
5. To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.

   • Let us type them now in our own lives.

6. 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)

1. 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

1. (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)

1. type; sort, kind
2. (colloquial) guy, bloke, man
3. (typography) typeface

Descendants

• ? Polish: typ
• ? Romanian: tip

Adjective

type (plural types)

1. typical, normal, classic
2. (statistics) standard

Further reading

• “type” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Noun

type

1. vocative singular of typus

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (túpos).

Noun

type m (definite singular typen, indefinite plural typer, definite plural typene)

1. a type (kind, sort)
2. typeface
3. (slang) a male person, a boy or man
4. (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)

1. a type (kind, sort)

References

• “type” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?stænd??/

Etymology 1

From Middle English standynge, stondynge, standende, stondinde, standande, stondande, from Old English standende, stondende, from Proto-Germanic *standandz (“standing”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *standan? (“to stand”), equivalent to stand +? -ing.

Verb

standing

1. present participle of stand
   • 1991, Backdraft

     So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?

Adjective

standing (not comparable)

1. Erect, not cut down.
2. Performed from an erect position.

   standing ovation

3. Remaining in force or status.

   standing committee

4. Stagnant; not moving or flowing.

   standing water

5. Not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting.

   a standing colour

6. Not movable; fixed.

   a standing bed, distinguished from a trundle-bed

   the standing rigging of a ship

Antonyms

• (stagnant): moving, working (committees)

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English standyng, stonding, stondung, from Old English *standung, equivalent to stand +? -ing.

Noun

standing (countable and uncountable, plural standings)

1. Position or reputation in society or a profession.
   • 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)[1]

     The males constantly test their standing, looking to move up in the hierarchy.

2. Duration.

3. The act of a person who stands, or a place where someone stands.

   I will provide you and your fellows of a good standing to see his entry

   • I think in deep mire, where there is no standing.;

4. (sports) The position of a team in a league or of a player in a list.

5. (Britain) Room in which to park a vehicle or vehicles
   • 1992, P. D. James, The Children of Men, page 28:

     "There was no garage at Lathbury Road, but we had standing for two cars in front of the house."

   • 2000, Bob Breen, Mission Accomplished, East Timor, page 149:

     "The engineering crisis boiled down to roads, hard standing, and waste."

6. (law) The right of a party to bring a legal action, based on the relationship between that party and the matter to which the action relates.

7. (Britain, slang, obsolete) The location on a street where a market trader habitually operates.

   Synonym: pitch

Derived terms

• class standing
• hard standing
• good standing

Translations

References

• (market trader's pitch): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Cebuano

Etymology

From English standing.

Noun

standing

1. in bato lata; an instance where the can is standing upright and, still in play, after being hit and pushed out of its ring

Faroese

Etymology

standa (“to stand”) +? -ing

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?stant??k]

Noun

standing f (genitive singular standingar, uncountable)

1. erection

Declension

Synonyms

• reðurstøða

French

Etymology

From English standing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??.di?/

Noun

standing m (plural standings)

1. standing, status
2. Level of quality or comfort, especially about real estate

   appartement de grand standing

Further reading

• “standing” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?tandin/, [es?t?ãn?.d??n]

Noun

standing m (plural standings)

1. status, standing, class