Word Finder - type

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A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.

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This type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane.

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

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

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A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.

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

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

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He was exactly her type.

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A blood group.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.)

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Categorial grammar is like a combination of context-free grammar and types.

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To put text on paper using a typewriter.

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To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.

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To determine the blood type of.

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The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion.

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To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.

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To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.

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To categorize into types.

She continued to type while I put in the call.

I just haven't had time to type up my notes.

He was too hard to offer the type of empathy she wanted, but he was the man who'd been with her since the beginning of the end.

What type is she?

Of what use is this type of talent?

He's one of these type A personality guys who's always wound up tighter than a spring—wears whatever face suits the crowd.

That type of heartache is rough, but I came to peace with it and was pretty happy with my expulsion, until a few days ago.

His fingers poised over the keys several times as if he were going to type more.

Worse, they'd never run across this type of issue in all their years.

Mary had never been the jealous type, but then, where love was concerned, people changed.

Especially, I want to succeed spectacularly with the type of case we handled today.

She was far better than I at handling this type of emotion but just then, Molly skipped in the door.

My guess is she fled from some type of sexual encounter.

You don't strike me as the type to feed ducks.

Speranski's whole figure was of a peculiar type that made him easily recognizable.

The auto charger was in the car, but she had a plug-in type at home.

She's not my type.

Cassie, if I were the type of man to run away from responsibility, would I be here right now?

To ask Brennan directly might lead to us so I made up a story we were checking old cases to see if someone released from prison might have returned to this type of crime.

He didn't need this type of drama, and she was too good for a man like him in her life.

She started to type a response when Jenn's voice interrupted her.

They had compared Martha's drawing to the contour maps of the area back at Bird Song and decided this was as close to the general area of the mine that any type of roadway touched.

The phloem is generally Type.

He was weak, a type of weakness she couldn't heal.

She's not the outdoor type.

Finally he lowered his hands and leaned forward to type.

I wouldn't have spent years grooming you for this type of event if I didn't believe in you.

Instead of designer thongs or flimsy lace things, Ethel wore the plainest of cotton panties, the type described by past generations as 'practi­cal.'

It wasn't the same type of scrutiny as Talon's feral, maniacal look.

He'll never, ever let you down, but he's not the warm, fuzzy type who will hug you when you're down, either.

He looked at the slight Natural with dark hair and eyes who happened to have a doctorate in every type of science he could name.

Then again, she wasn't interested in the only type of relationship he had to offer.

We've eliminated every other type of food, and the drugs might help you accept that you cannot eat.

Taking the risk, she began to type.

She.d never known the type of terror that tore through her when she saw the jaguar snatch him.

She wasn't sure how he'd lived with this type of treatment since he was a boy.

The nasty field that dissolved any type of biological entity was one of the government's latest controversial creations.

Never saw him type.

Rita would type up the taped transcript of the conver­sation with Mayer.

He likes any type of male.

Monica Cutler had performed every duty but setting type at the Parkside Sentinel for the past 20 years.

She took a plain sheet of white paper from her desk and proceeded with flying fingers to type the 14 names and addresses using an old manual typewriter.

His success convinced him that language can be conveyed through type to the mind of the blind-deaf child, who, before education, is in the state of the baby who has not learned to prattle; indeed, is in a much worse state, for the brain has grown in years without natural nourishment.

Countess Bezukhova was present among other Russian ladies who had followed the sovereign from Petersburg to Vilna and eclipsed the refined Polish ladies by her massive, so-called Russian type of beauty.

Damian knew better than to trust the deceptive appearance of this type of creature.

Damian's men were not the type she wanted to piss off.

Obviously she had no idea what he was thinking when it came to that type of thing.

We've seen your type before.

Her sister would have a heart attack once she saw the tattoo and found out she'd basically married the type of man Hannah'd always warned her about.

I fought side by side with his older brother years ago at the end of the war; I know the type of honor that runs in his family.