type
A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
Noun 4 meanings
A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
“This type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane.”
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; an embodiment.
A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
Verb 4 meanings
To put text on paper using a typewriter.
To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
To determine the blood type of.
“The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion.”
To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
Etymology
From Middle English type (“symbol, figure, emblem”), from Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from τύπτω (túptō, “to strike, beat”).
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TYPE at a glance
TYPE has 4 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (T 1 + Y 4 + P 3 + E 1) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #518 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with type
All rhymes- HYPE12
- PROTOTYPE16
- STEREOTYPE15
- PHENOTYPE19
- ARCHETYPE19
- GENOTYPE14
- SUBTYPE14
- HOLOTYPE16
- LINOTYPE13
- MONOTYPE15
- TELETYPE13
- HAPLOTYPE19
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