Word Finder - types

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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.

I can handle those types of issues.

I thought you domestic security types were supposed to be watching this kind of thing.

Threeridged and four-ridged types occur both in Mastodon and Tetrabelodon.

According to these observations, two distinct types of so-called tabby cats are recognizable.

Though many types of manually operated switchboards have been brought into use, differing from each other in respect of circuit and working arrangements, yet each of them may be placed in one or other of three main classes according as the system of working is magneto, call-wire, or common battery.

The lion and the hunting-leopard, which may be considered as, in this epoch at least, Ethiopian types, extend thus far, besides various species of jerboa and other desert-loving forms.

The hogbacked girder is a compromise between the two types, avoiding some difficulties of construction near the ends of the girder.

There were many types, indeed, scarcely two being alike; but all were equally disagreeable in appearance.

Elise is one of the fed's special security types.

The mechanical laws, to which external things were subject, were conceived as being valid only in the inorganic world; in the organic and mental worlds these mechanical laws were conceived as being disturbed or overridden by other powers, such as the influence of final causes, the existence of types, the work of vital and mental forces.

One or other of these types is to be found in cats of almost all breeds, whether Persian, short-haired or Manx; and there appear to be no intermediate stages between them.

Apart from the above-mentioned division of the striped members of both groups into two types according to the pattern of their markings, the domesticated cats of western Europe are divided into a short-haired and a long-haired group. Of these, the former is the one which bears the closest relationship to the wild cats of Africa and of Europe, the latter being an importation from the East.

At the present day, however, Persians exhibit nearly all the colour and pattern types of the short-haired breeds, the "orange Persian" representing the erythristic phase.

If Ritschl had clearly shown that judgments of value enfold and transform other types of knowledge, just as the "spiritual man" includes and transfigures but does not annihilate the "natural man," then within the compass of this spiritually conditioned knowledge all other knowledge would be seen to have a function and a home.

Direct radiators are a development of the early coil of pipe; they are made in various types and designs and are usually of cast iron.

Some information as to the types of fortification adopted in.

Most of the species, particularly the specialized types, are more or less completely herbivorous.

The same deposits have also yielded remains of extinct types of kangaroo, some of gigantic size, constituting the genera Sthenurus, Procoptodon and Palorchestes.

Numerous types more or less nearly allied to the phalangers, such as Burramys and Triclis have also been described, as well as a flying form, Palaeopetaurus.

The Jurassic system is represented by two types.

The comparative richness of proteaceous plants in Western Australia and South Africa first suggested a common source for these primitive types.

A theory was therefore propounded that these known types were all derived from a continent which has been named Antarctica.

On the Australian side the fact that Tasmania is richest in marsupial types indicates the gate by which they entered.

As a step towards such hypothesis it has been noted that the Antarctic, the South African, and the Australian floras have many types in common.

He finds near kinsmen for them in the Ainus of Japan, the Khmers and Chams of Cambodia and among some of the Micronesian islanders who, in spite of much crossing, still exhibit marked Caucasic types.

His command of the art is such that his plays read like original works, and it may be at least said that some of his characters stand out so vividly from his canvas that they have ever since served as representatives of certain types of humanity, e.g.

We may miss the finer insight into human nature and the delicate touch in drawing character which Terence presents to us in his reproductions of Menander, but there is wonderful life and vigour and considerable variety in the Plautine embodiments of these different types.

Our task is simply to furnish the general reader with an account of the types of instrumentation prevalent at various musical periods, and their relation to other branches of the art.

There are numerous and important variations of these two types, but the above contain the elements out of which most cranes of the class are built.

In many cases a still heavier type is used for the first mile or two from shore, and several intermediate types are often introduced, tapering gradually to the thin deep-water type.

The instruments used for land telegraphs on this system are of two types - " sounders," which indicate by sound, and " recorders," which record the signals.

In the types of cable that were first used, the wires, usually with a cotton insulation, were drawn into lead tubes, and the tubes filled with paraffin or other similar compound, which kept the wires from the injurious effects of any moisture which might penetrate the lead tube.

Certain types of dangerous individuals are relegated after serving a sentence in the ordinary convict prisons, and by administrative, not by judicial process, to special penal colonies known as domicilii coatti or forced residences.

Old types of vessels have been sold or demolished, and replaced by newer types.

It may help us if we rapidly review at this point the leading types of philosophy in their application to the theistic problem.

Theism then has its most habitual affinities with intuitionalism, but may fall under any one of our philosophical or quasi philosophical types.

In "God as perfection" Martineau handles the basis of ethics without reference to his own modification of the intuitionalist position (Types of Ethical Theory), according to which "good."

The general character of the forests is Burmese with an admixture of Malay types.

As already stated, there occur in the Hydromedusae two distinct types of person, the polyp and the medusa; and either of them is capable of non-sexual reproduction by budding, a process which may lead to the formation of colonies, composed of more or fewer individuals combined and connected together.

From them are developed two distinct types of histological elements; the genital cells and the cnidoblasts or mothercells of the nematocysts.

In this method of budding F s there are two types.

Besides the three types of individual above mentioned, there are other appendages of hydroid colonies, of which the individuality is doubtful.

Further, two distinct types of otocyst can be recognized in the Hydro medusae; that of the Leptolinae, in which the entire organ is ectodermal, concrement-cells and all, and the organ is not a tentaculocyst; and that of the Trachylinae, in which the organ is a tentaculocyst, and the concrement-cells are endodermal, derived from the endoderm of the modified tentacle, while the rest of the organ is ectodermal.

The endoderm of the medusa shows the same general types of structure as in the polyp, described above.

Two types of budding must be distinguished - the direct, so-called palingenetic type, and the indirect, so-called coenogenetic type.

The special property of the medusa is the umbrella, distinguishing the medusa at once from other morphological types among the Coelentera.

The cleavage of the ovum follows two types, both seen in Tubularia (Brauer [3]).

Many views have been put forward as to the morphological relationship between the two types of person in the Hydromedusae.

Huxley, the sporosac is the starting-point of an evolution leading up through the various types of gonophores to the free medusa as the culminating point of a phyletic series.

The question still remains open, however, which of the two types of person may be regarded as the most primitive, the most ancient in the race-history of the Hydromedusae.