type

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: type

1	n v	a subdivision of a particular kind of thing identify as belonging to a certain type
2	v n	write by means of a keyboard with types printed characters

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: type

“what type of sculpture do you prefer?”

Types:: breed
a special type; nature
a particular type of thing; edition, variant, variation, version
something a little different from others of the same type

Type of:: form, kind, sort, variety
a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality

Type of:: taxon, taxonomic category, taxonomic group
animal or plant group having natural relations

“the capable type”

“Such people can practically be typed”

“type the acceptance letter, please”

Types:: show 5 types...; hide 5 types...; shift
use a shift key on a keyboard; backspace
hit the backspace key on a computer or typewriter keyboard; double-space
type with a full space between lines; triple-space
type with two empty spaces between lines; touch-type
type without looking at the keyboard

“small type is hard to read”

Types:: show 12 types...; hide 12 types...; type family
a complete set of type suitable for printing text; case, face, font, fount, typeface
a specific size and style of type within a type family; unicameral script
a script with a single case; bicameral script
a script having two distinct cases; constant-width font, fixed-width font, monospaced font, typewriter font
a typeface is which each character is given the same width (as by a typewriter); proportional font
any font whose different characters have different widths; cartridge font, font cartridge
any font that is contained in a cartridge that can be plugged into a computer printer; Gothic, black letter
a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries; bold, bold face, boldface
a typeface with thick heavy lines; italic
a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right; raster font, screen font
the font that is displayed on a computer screen; Helvetica, sans serif
a typeface in which characters have no serifs

Type of:: character, grapheme, graphic symbol
a written symbol that is used to represent speech

“he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up”

Types:: kern
the part of a metal typeface that projects beyond its body; quad, space
(printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences; hair space
(printing) the narrowest of the spaces used to separate words or letters

Type of:: block
a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)

“the word `element' contains five different types of character”

Type of:: symbol
an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance

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