type

type is a 4-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A combining form signifying impressed form; stamp; print; type; typical form; representative; as in stereotype phototype, ferrotype, monotype. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 9 · 20 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A combining form signifying impressed form; stamp; print; type; typical form; representative; as in stereotype phototype, ferrotype, monotype.
2. noun. The mark or impression of something; stamp; impressed sign; emblem.
3. noun. Form or character impressed; style; semblance.
4. noun. A figure or representation of something to come; a token; a sign; a symbol; -- correlative to antitype.
5. noun. That which possesses or exemplifies characteristic qualities; the representative.
6. noun. A general form or structure common to a number of individuals; hence, the ideal representation of a species, genus, or other group, combining the essential characteristics; an animal or plant possessing or exemplifying the essential characteristics of a species, genus, or other group. Also, a group or division of animals having a certain typical or characteristic structure of body maintained within the group.
7. noun. The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; esp., the design on the face of a medal or a coin.
8. noun. A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.
9. noun. A raised letter, figure, accent, or other character, cast in metal or cut in wood, used in printing.
10. noun. Such letters or characters, in general, or the whole quantity of them used in printing, spoken of collectively; any number or mass of such letters or characters, however disposed.
11. transitive verb. To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
12. transitive verb. To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
13. noun. 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"

14. noun. a subdivision of a particular kind of thing

    "what type of sculpture do you prefer?"

15. noun. all of the tokens of the same symbol

    "the word `element' contains five different types of character"

16. noun. printed characters

    "small type is hard to read"

17. noun. (biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon
18. noun. a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)

    "a real character"

    "a strange character"

    Synonyms: case, character, eccentric

19. verb. identify as belonging to a certain type

    "Such people can practically be typed"

    Synonyms: typecast

20. verb. write by means of a keyboard with types

    "type the acceptance letter, please"

    Synonyms: typewrite

Synonyms

case, character, eccentric, typecast, typewrite

Common word forms

typed, typer, types, typees, typing, typeable, typeless

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