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Antonyms for types

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


Definition of types

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 :
  • These also were of tribes strange to him; but of East African types with which he was familiar.
  • Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
  • The women are of all types, from the most loathsome to the most lovable.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • Here we have suggested the possibility of two types of Christian life.
  • Extract from : « The Ministry of Intercession » by Andrew Murray
  • What then are the types of men which we should endeavor to produce?
  • Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
  • It is more easy to mention the types which should not be allowed to multiply than those which should.
  • Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
  • Americans are not all the types you have read of or the tourists you have met.
  • Extract from : « The Innocent Adventuress » by Mary Hastings Bradley
  • But what, after all, do we know of the types of life to be found on other planets?
  • Extract from : « Spawn of the Comet » by Harold Thompson Rich
  • I remember how, in one afternoon's work, we saw the two types most perfectly.
  • Extract from : « Things as They Are » by Amy Wilson-Carmichael
  • Didn't you invent a new motor-pump that drove all the other types out of the field?
  • Extract from : « The Great Hunger » by Johan Bojer
  • Vibrating regulators are of the "constant" current or the "constant-voltage" types.
  • Extract from : « The Automobile Storage Battery » by O. A. Witte

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