English Dictionary

type

/taɪp/

noun

A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class. / An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.

Type is a classification based on shared characteristics.

意味（1）

A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.

Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.

意味（2）

An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.

I just peeked out toward the restaurant and there are a lot of Navy types in there. I'd hate for you to get in trouble on your last night in Europe.

意味（3）

An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.

Altogether he was the type of low ruffianism — as ill-conditioned a looking brute as ever ginned a hare.

意味（4）

(uncountable) Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.

意味（5）

(chiefly uncountable) Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.

The headline was set in bold type.

意味（6）

(taxonomy) Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.

...thus Stearn has designated Linnaeus as the type specimen of Homo sapiens

意味（7）

Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.

We can't get along: he's just not my type.

意味（8）

(medicine) A blood group.

意味（9）

(corpus linguistics) A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.

意味（10）

(theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.

意味（11）

(computing theory) A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.

意味（12）

(fine arts) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; especially, the design on the face of a medal or a coin.

意味（13）

(chemistry) 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.

The fundamental types used to express the simplest and most essential chemical relations are hydrochloric acid, water, ammonia, and methane.

意味（14）

(mathematics) A part of the partition of the object domain of a logical theory (which due to the existence of such partition, would be called a typed theory). (Note: this corresponds to the notion of "data type" in computing theory.)

Logics of the second and higher orders may be regarded as type-theoretic systems.