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Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : tahyp
Phonetic Transcription : taɪp



Definition of type

Origin :
  • late 15c., "symbol, emblem," from Latin typus "figure, image, form, kind," from Greek typos "dent, impression, mark, figure, original form," from root of typtein "to strike, beat," from PIE root *(s)teu- "to strike, cut, hew" (see steep (adj.)). Extended 1713 to printing blocks with letters carved on them. The meaning "general form or character of some kind, class" is first in English 1843, though it had that sense in Latin and Greek. To be someone's type "be the sort of person that person is attracted to" is recorded from 1934.
  • noun class, kind
  • noun example, model
  • noun printed characters
  • verb classify
  • verb hit keys on machine to print document
Example sentences :
  • Mr. Forest cannot find the type of girl he wishes for the part.
  • Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
  • He took children as the type of what people should try to become.
  • Extract from : « De Profundis » by Oscar Wilde
  • He took sabbatarianism as a type of the things that should be set at nought.
  • Extract from : « De Profundis » by Oscar Wilde
  • This was the first apparatus which printed a telegram in type.
  • Extract from : « Heroes of the Telegraph » by J. Munro
  • Changes in spelling, use of capitals, punctuation and type are not recorded.
  • Extract from : « Maid Marian » by Thomas Love Peacock
  • The Edwardian castles of Caernarvon and Beaumaris belong to this type of fortress.
  • Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield
  • It is ancient—sometimes in the individual case, always in the type and custom.
  • Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
  • There, in his fatherland, he will exhibit his own type of Christianity.
  • Extract from : « Slavery Ordained of God » by Rev. Fred A. Ross, D.D.
  • His father was a Presbyterian of the Scotch type, and a ruling elder in the church.
  • Extract from : « Cleveland Past and Present » by Maurice Joblin
  • But what you do not know is that the type once established does not persist of its own accord.
  • Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings

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