Definitions For Type

noun

• A small metal block bearing a raised character on one end; produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper
• A subdivision of a particular kind of thing
• All of the tokens of the same symbol
• Printed characters
• (biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon
• A person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
• A particular kind or group of things or people
• A particular kind of person
• Printed letters

verb

• Identify as belonging to a certain type
• Write by means of a keyboard with types
• To write with a computer keyboard or typewriter
• To find out what group something is in