type
/taɪp/
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
- plural
- types
Meanings
- 1
A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class
This is not my type.
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She isn't my type at all.
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An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc
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An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment
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A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.; Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size
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A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.; Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics
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Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typicalrare
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Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted torare
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A blood grouprare
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A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a tokenrare
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An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian timesrare