type
/taɪp/ noun A1- A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class. · This type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane.
- classification of texts according to their literary style
- 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.
- Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
- Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics. · The headline was set in bold type.
- Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.
- Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to. · We can't get along: he's just not my type.· He was exactly her type.
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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.
Poor Sir Charles’s head was of a very rare type, half Gaelic, half Ivernian in its characteristics.
The woman who approached me was certainly that, and of a most uncommon type.
I am certainly developing the wisdom of the serpent, for when Mortimer pressed his questions to an inconvenient extent I asked him casually to what type Frankland’s skull belonged, and so heard nothing but craniology for the rest of our drive.
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