type
/taɪp/ verb B1- 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.
- To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
- To categorize into types.
He/she/it types · Past typed · Past participle typed · -ing form typing
Verb forms
- Base form
- type
- He/she/it
- types
- Past
- typed
- Past participle
- typed
- -ing form
- typing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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At the moment when the hand of the massive time-piece, representing Endymion asleep, pointed to nine on its golden face, and the hammer, the faithful type of mechanical thought, struck nine times, the name of the Count of Monte Cristo resounded in its turn, and as if by an electric shock all the assembly turned towards the door.
She could have posed as a model for the self-respecting working girl of the best type.
Standing on the rug between us, with his slight, tall figure, his sharp features, thoughtful face, and curling hair prematurely tinged with grey, he seemed to represent that not too common type, a nobleman who is in truth noble.
There is as much difference to my eyes between the leaded bourgeois type of a Times article and the slovenly print of an evening half-penny paper as there could be between your negro and your Esquimau.
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