See Also: Type A(money)
Gm type(medicine)
Type(medicine)
Type B(money)
Type(money)
Type(finance)
type I dip(medicine)
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type(2) (iou)



type noun & adjective. L15.
[Latin typus from Greek tupos blow, impression, image, figure, from base of tuptein strike, beat.]
A. noun.
I.
That by which something is symbolized; a symbol; spec. (Theology) a foreshadowing in the Old Testament of a person or event of the Christian dispensation. Correl. to antitype. L15.
N. Frye Salvation out of water is connected with the..dolphin, a conventional type of Christ.
a. A figure or picture of something. rare. M16-L18.
b. A device on either side of a coin or medal. L18.
A distinguishing mark. rare. L16.
Shakespeare 3 Henry VI Thy father bears the type of King of Naples.
a. Medicine. The characteristic form of a fever, esp. the period of an intermittent fever. Now rare or obsolete. E17.
b. gen. The general form, structure, or character distinguishing a particular group or class of things; transf. (esp. Art) a pattern or model after which something is made. M19.
J. H. Parker The original type of all Christian churches is..the Roman Basilica.
A class of people or things distinguished by common essential characteristics; a kind, a sort. M19.
K. Vonnegut The..ice we skate upon..is only one of several types of ice. C. Mungoshi Your type always comes back for money! M. Bergmann Three types: the erotic, the narcissistic, and the obsessional. Which? Some types of accidents (such as falls..) can happen..in the home. New Scientist A new type of jet engine which spins a multibladed propeller.
a. A person or thing showing the characteristic qualities of a class; a representative specimen; spec. a person or thing exemplifying the ideal characteristics of a class, the perfect specimen of something. M19.
F. W. Robertson Arnold of Rugby is the type of English action.
b. A person of a particular (specified or contextually implied) character; (with possess.) the sort of person to whom one is attracted. colloq. E20.
G. Durrell Apart from anything else, the girl was not my type. D. Eden That young woman didn't look the spinster type. D. E. Westlake Three army types were there..tall, fat, khaki-uniformed. A. Macrae He's just the type to have herpes.
II. techn.
Typography. A character for printing, originally a metal casting from a matrix, reproducing a punch on which a letter or other character was engraved; such pieces, collectively, spec. with reference to size or design. E18.
V. Lee Musical types had..been invented by an Italian. L. Woolf I bought..Caslon Old Face Titling type..for printing the covers.
b. The printed characters produced by type collectively. Formerly also, a printed character. L18.
J. Ruskin Here it is in full type, for it is worth careful reading.
Biology & Mineralogy etc. A general plan of structure characterizing a group of animals, plants, minerals, etc.; a group or division of animals, etc., having a common form or structure. M19.
Biology. A species or genus which is taken to exhibit best the essential characters of its species, genus, family, etc. (cf. type species, type genus below). M19.
b. spec. The essential element making valid the scientific name of a new species etc.; usu. (in full type specimen), the specimen, or one of the specimens, from which it was originally described. Cf. holotype, lectotype, syntype, etc. L19.
Linguistics. A class of observed linguistic units, as a phoneme, sentence, etc. Cf. TOKEN noun 1d. E20.
b. adjective.
As 2nd elem. of comb.: having the characteristics of; resembling; functioning like. L19.
Chicago Tribune A J. R. Ewing-type villain. Which? Convenience-type dishes.
Type of, kind of. US colloq. M20.
Phrases: font of type: see FONT noun2 2. ideal type: see IDEAL adjective. Moon's type, Moon type: see MOON noun2. movable type: see MOVABLE adjective 3. revert to type: see REVERT verb 6b. script type: see SCRIPT noun1 2b. small type: see SMALL adjective. strong silent type: see SILENT adjective. true to type: see TRUE adjective, noun, & adverb. wild type: see WILD adjective, noun, & adverb.
Comb.: type A (a person of) a personality type characterized by ambition, impatience, and aggressive competitiveness, thought to be particularly susceptible to stress (cf. type B below); type approval confirmation that a new piece of equipment meets its required specifications; type area (a) the part of a page occupied by print; (b) = type site below; type B (a person of) a personality type characterized as easy-going and thought to have low susceptibility to stress (cf. type A above); type-ball = golf ball (b) s.v. GOLF noun; type-bar in a typewriter, each of the bars carrying the type; type basket the assembly of type-bars in a typewriter; type-cylinder: on which the type or plates are fastened in a rotary printing-press; typeface (a) a set of printing types, or of letters etc. otherwise printed, in a particular design; (b) the inked part of type; the impression made by this; type facsimile a copy of a piece of printing which is either a page-for-page copy using type as close as possible to the original or a faithful photographic reproduction; type-fallacy Logic the fallacy of including amongst the members of a type something belonging to another type; type-form a typical or representative form; type-genus a genus taken to exemplify best the essential characters of the family to which it belongs; esp. the genus from which the name of the family is taken; type-high adjective & adverb (a) adjective of the standard height of type (now 0.918 inch, 23.32 mm); (b) adverb as high as the type; type-holder an apparatus for holding type, used in stamping or lettering books; type-lever: by which a type or character is impressed; type locality (a) Biology the place in which a type specimen was found; (b) = type site below; type-metal an alloy of lead and antimony, sometimes with tin or copper, used for casting printing-types; type-psychology psychological study or theory based on the classification of people by type of personality or physique; typescript noun & verb (a) noun a typewritten document (spec. a literary composition), esp. for a printer; (b) verb trans. record in typescript; typeset verb trans. (Printing) set (a text) in type, prepare for printing (chiefly as typesetting verbal noun); typesetter Printing (a) a compositor; (b) a composing-machine; type site Archaeology, Geology, etc.: where objects regarded as defining the characteristics of a culture, stratigraphic level, etc., are found; type species Biology orig., a species taken to exemplify best the characteristics of its genus; now spec. the species on which the genus is based and with which the genus name remains associated during any taxonomic revision; type specimen (a) see sense 9b above; (b) a printed sheet or book showing the variety of typefaces a printer or manufacturer has available; type test: conducted to determine whether a new piece of equipment meets its specifications; type-wheel: with raised characters on its outer edge.
typal adjective (a) of the nature of or serving as a type; typical; (b) pertaining to a type or symbol; symbolic: M19.