type
types; typing; typed
A type is a specific category of things or people that have something in common. Your favorite type of candy might be dark chocolate, while your brother's favorite type is jelly beans.
There are two basic sorts of types: first, a group of similar things — and in biology, specifically, "an organism with the essential characteristics of its group." The second type of type consists of letters, numbers, or symbols that are printed or shown on a computer screen, like the extra-large type in your grandpa's library book. As a verb, to type means to use a typewriter or keyboard to write.
Definitions of type
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a subdivision of a particular kind of thing
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(biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon
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type of:
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taxon, taxonomic category, taxonomic group
animal or plant group having natural relations
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taxon, taxonomic category, taxonomic group
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a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
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identify as belonging to a certain type
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write by means of a keyboard with types“type the acceptance letter, please”
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synonyms:
typewrite
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types:
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shift
use a shift key on a keyboard
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backspace
hit the backspace key on a computer or typewriter keyboard
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double-space
type with a full space between lines
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triple-space
type with two empty spaces between lines
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touch-type
type without looking at the keyboard
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type of:
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write
communicate or express by writing
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printed characters“small type is hard to read”
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types:
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type family
a complete set of type suitable for printing text
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case, face, font, fount, typeface
a specific size and style of type within a type family
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unicameral script
a script with a single case
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bicameral script
a script having two distinct cases
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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)
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proportional font
any font whose different characters have different widths
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cartridge font, font cartridge
any font that is contained in a cartridge that can be plugged into a computer printer
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Gothic, black letter
a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries
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bold, bold face, boldface
a typeface with thick heavy lines
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italic
a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right
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raster font, screen font
the font that is displayed on a computer screen
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Helvetica, sans serif
a typeface in which characters have no serifs
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type of:
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character, grapheme, graphic symbol
a written symbol that is used to represent speech
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a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end; produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper“he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up”
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types:
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kern
the part of a metal typeface that projects beyond its body
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quad, space
(printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences
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movable type
printing type in which blocks bearing individual characters can be moved and assembled in any combination
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hair space
(printing) the narrowest of the spaces used to separate words or letters
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type of:
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block
a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)
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all of the tokens of the same symbol“the word `element' contains five different types of character”
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type of:
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symbol
an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance
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symbol
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