typen.

Brit.

/tʌɪp/, U.S.

/taɪp/

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s tipe.

Etymology: < French type (16th cent. in Littré) or Latin typus, < Greek τύπος impression, figure, type, < the root of τύπτειν to beat, strike.

a. That by which something is symbolized or figured; anything having a symbolical signification; a symbol, emblem; spec. in Theology a person, object, or event of Old Testament history, prefiguring some person or thing revealed in the new dispensation; correlative to antitype. in (the) type, in symbolic representation.

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society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol

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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Old Testament > [noun] > prefiguring NT

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a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Cock & Fox l. 587 in Poems (1981) 26 Suppose this be ane fabill, And ouerheillit wyth typis figurall.

1590 ‘Hobynoll’ To Learned Sheph. v, in Spenser's F.Q. Pref. Verses That fare Ilands right, Which thou dost vayle in Type of Faery land, Elizas blessed field, that Albion hight.

1607 S. Hieron Abridgem. of Gospell in Wks. (1620) I. 104 The people of Israel were a tipe of Gods people: Canaan a tipe of heauen.

1654 Bp. J. Taylor Real Presence v. 103 He offered wine not water in the type..of his bloud.

1706 M. Prior Ode to Queen xxxiv The British Rose, Type of sweet Rule, and gentle Majesty.

a1785 J. W. Fletcher Posthumous Pieces (1791) 280 [Marriage] the most perfect type of our Lord's mystical union with his church.

1819 H. B. Henderson Satires in India iv. 52 The Hookah's monstrous snake..: That type of eastern Luxury's excess.

1851 Kingsley in Life (1878) I. 255 It is only in proportion as we appreciate and understand the types that we can understand the anti-types.

1863 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer Greece & Greeks II. xii. 29 A river is always the type of human life.

1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost i. 15 Ceremonial actions, and washings, and purifications, which were the types and shadows of things to come.

b. An imperfect symbol or anticipation of something.Apparently an isolated use.

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1754 S. Foote Knights i. 4 The very Abstract of Penury! Sir John Cutler, with his transmigrated Stockings, was but a Type of him.

†2.

a. A figure or picture of something; a representation; an image or imitation. Obsolete. rare.

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society > communication > representation > [noun] > a representation

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1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 10 This Type do represent the world.

1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 156 Wherfore behold the tipe before placed.

1572 G. Gascoigne Voy. to Holland in Hearbes 7 I must endite..A tipe of heauen, a liuely hew of hell.

1774 J. Bryant New Syst. II. 445 Lunar amulets, or types of the Ark in the form of a crescent.

b. Numismatics The figure on either side of a coin or medal.

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society > communication > record > memorial or monument > medal > [noun] > figure on

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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > obverse or reverse of coin > device stamped on

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1785 T. Holcroft tr. Comtesse de Genlis Tales Castle (ed. 2) I. Notes 292 On the two sides..of a medal..are distinguished the type, and the inscription or legend. The type, or device, is the figure represented.

1853 H. N. Humphreys Coin Collector's Man. I. vi. 61 The crab, being perhaps at an early period made sacred to the river deity, became the principal type of the money of this city [Agrigentum].

1904 W. M. Ramsay Lett. to Seven Churches xix. 262 Homer is one of the most frequent types on coins of the city.

3. A distinguishing mark or sign; a stamp. rare.

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society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > [noun]

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1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 i. iv. 122 Thy father beares the type of king of Naples.

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. iii. 31 Tennis and tall Stockings, Short blistred Breeches, and those types of Trauell.

1692 M. Prior Ode Imitation Horace viii. 28 Heav'n as plainly pointed out the King, As when he at the Altar stood, In all his Types and Robes of Powr.

1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter (1863) 11 The types of a really hospitable country house were an anker of whisky always on the spigot, a caldron ever on the bubble with boiling water.

1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter (1863) 44 All these things were the types of an intellectual vitality.

4. Pathology. The characteristic form of a fever; esp. the character of an intermittent fever as determined by its period. Cf. type-fever n. at Compounds 2. [So Latin typus.] Obsolete or merged in sense 5.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > characteristic form of

type1601

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxii. xiv. 122 The fever also, Of what type or kind it is.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxvi. xi. 260 Some are wont to give of Cinque foile three leaves in a Tertian, and foure in a Quartane, and so rise to more according to the period or type of the rest.

1778 W. Cullen First Lines Pract. Physic (ed. 2) I. i. i. §29 With respect to the form, or Type, of fevers.

1818–20 E. Thompson Cullen's Nosologia (ed. 3) 187 [Fever] with intermission, varying (a) in type or period.

1858 J. Copland Dict. Pract. Med. I. 937/2 The type of masked ague is generally quotidian.

a. The general form, structure, or character distinguishing a particular kind, group, or class of beings or objects; hence transferred a pattern or model after which something is made.

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the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > character or nature > [noun]

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1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic II. iv. ii. §3 219 When we..see a creature resembling an animal, we compare it with our general conception of an animal; and if it agrees with that general conception, we include it in the class. The conception becomes the type of comparison.

1849 J. H. Parker Introd. Study Gothic Archit. i. 3 The original type of all Christian churches is universally acknowledged to have been the Roman Basilica.

1857 F. D. Maurice Epist. St. John i. 3 The type upon which the whole was constructed.

1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. i. 15 His face had lost all resemblance to the type of his heroic family.

1864 Soc. Science Rev. 3 Diseases are founded on types like animals, plants, systems of worlds [etc.].

1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 4 The fundamental unity of type which the Divine reason has imposed on all things.

1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 12 A few diseases exhibit well-marked types.

1880 Mem. J. Legge vi. 76 Every creature has a type, a peculiar character of its own.

b. Church History. [Greek τύπος τῆς πίστεως type of the faith.] An edict of the Emperor Constans II, promulgated a.d. 648, prohibiting further discussion of the Monothelite controversy.

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society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical authority > [noun] > ordinance of

type1728

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Type, is also a Name given to an Edict of the Emperor Constans... It had the Name Type, as being a kind of Formulary of Faith.

1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity II. iv. vi. 130 The Ecthesis of Heraclius was replaced by the Type of Constans. The Type..aspired to silence by authority this interminable dispute.

1902 H. K. Mann Hist. Popes I. i. 381 Paul caused the Emperor Constans to issue the ‘Type’... The ‘Type’ ordered the Ecthesis to be taken down, and forbade anyone in future to speak of either one or two wills or operations in Our Lord.

a. A kind, class, or order as distinguished by a particular character.

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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > [noun] > a kind, sort, or class

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1854 D. Brewster More Worlds iv. 73 On a planet more magnificent than ours, may there not be a type of reason of which the intellect of Newton is the lowest degree?

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xx. 531 The Queen was sinking under small pox of the most malignant type.

1879 M. Arnold Porro unum est Necess. in Mixed Ess. 152 The instruction in both is of the same type.

1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. xlviii. 220 Three types of rural local government are discernible in America.

1897 D. W. Forrest Christ of Hist. & Exper. i. 31 It is a different type of moral character: another order of humanity.

1898 Jrnl. School Geogr. (U.S.) Oct. 306 The dominant weather type was clear, with light southerly winds and temperatures between 50° and 55°. This type was interrupted by two spells of cloudy weather, with northerly winds.

b. Preceding a noun with ellipsis of of, = type of. Cf. -type suffix 2. U.S. colloquial.

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1966 Word Study Dec. 2/2 He could not pick out things like a bridge from ‘this type distance’.

1979 Nature 22 Nov. p. xvii/1 The 110C systems may be used with virtually any type projector.

7. transferred.

a. A person or thing that exhibits the characteristic qualities of a class; a representative specimen; a typical example or instance.

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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > typical or representative case > typical or representative thing or person

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1845 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man (ed. 2) 333 The Tahitians are considered by Lesson as the type of the whole Polynesian race.

a1854 H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets (1857) v. 172 Shakspeare may be contemplated as the type of modern intellect and the representative of the European mind.

1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. viii. 67 It is a type of many.

1873 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera (1896) II. xxxiv. 236 Sir Roger de Coverley is a character, as well as a type.

b. spec. A person or thing that exemplifies the ideal qualities or characteristics of a kind or order; a perfect example or specimen of something; a model, pattern, exemplar.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > prototype > [noun] > model, pattern, or example

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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [noun] > perfect person or thing > model

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1847 R. W. Emerson Goethe in Wks. (1906) I. 392 He is the type of culture.

a1853 F. W. Robertson Wordsworth in Lect. 228 Arnold of Rugby is the type of English action; Wordsworth is the type of English thought.

1858 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) III. ii. i. 221 Plato is the very type of soaring philosophy.

c. A person of a certain (specified or implicit) character; one's type, the sort of person to whom one is attracted (usually in neg. or interrog. contexts). Also simply, a person; as a gallicism, also with pronunciation /tiːp/, derogatory. colloquial.

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the world > people > person > [noun] > as having character or qualities

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1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. 606 She also was Spanish or half so, types that wouldn't do things by halves, passionate abandon of the south.

1930 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals (1932) 327 I played piquet with our schoolmaster... That was a type upon whom our War had done bad work.

1931 K. Boyle Plagued by Nightingale xv. 123 Luc could fish with Nicholas... It's exactly what the poor type would prefer anyway!

1933 ‘G. Orwell’ Down & Out xxix. 216 ‘Low types,’ said the old Etonian, ‘very low types.’

1934 F. B. Cuthrell Innocent Bystander vii. 130 Richardson did not interest her, he was not her ‘type’.

1942 T. Rattigan Flare Path ii. i. 127 You're the actor type, aren't you?

1948 ‘N. Shute’ No Highway ii. 41 It didn't do Fisher any good with the R.A.F. types.

1951 J. C. Fennessy Sonnet in Bottle i. v. 28 ‘Oh, by the way, do you know these types?’ and he introduced the two men with him.

1956 ‘A. Bridge’ Lighthearted Quest 199 I went to look for Colin in that red-haired type's house.

1962 A. Lurie Love & Friendship xiii. 250 You wouldn't like him... He's not your type. He's a little fat man.

1965 R. Morris & D. Morris Men & Snakes i. 16 Although an intrepid explorer type, he made a hasty exit.

1968 M. Jones Survivor iii. 51 ‘I'm asking you if you think she's at all his type.’ Stuart shrugged. ‘I shouldn't care to say what Martin's type is. Come to think of it, I'd say he has no type.’

1971 D. E. Westlake I gave at Office 136 I was not alone in the room. Three army types were there..tall, fat, khaki-uniformed.

1974 J. Aiken Midnight is Place iv. 142 That type... He is a brigand!

1979 R. Jaffe Class Reunion ii. ii. 145 I've always thought you were very beautiful, Annabel. You always were just my type.

1979 A. Fraser King Charles II vii. 102 These were scarcely the types to risk life and limb.

1981 ‘M. Hebden’ Pel is Puzzled xi. 113 ‘Type over here... He recognises it.’ The ‘type over here’ was a man about thirty-five with long blond hair.

8. Technical uses from senses 5 – 7.

a. Natural History, etc. A certain general plan of structure characterizing a group of animals, plants, etc.; hence transferred a group or division of animals, etc., having a common form or structure.

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the world > life > biology > taxonomy > taxon > [noun] > type or sub-type

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1850 J. McCosh Method Divine Govt. (ed. 2) ii. ii. 162 In the organic kingdoms, there is an all-pervading system of types: there is a type for every particular species of plant and animal; a type for every leaf and every limb.

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam liv. 78 So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life.

1866 Duke of Argyll Reign of Law iv. 215 The adaptability of the one Vertebrate Type to the..variety of Life to which it serves as..a home.

1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) ii. 122 You must try to refer to its type every flowering plant you meet with.

1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals i. 49 Such types or common plans as those of the Arthropoda, the Annelida, the Mollusca [etc.].

1878 H. P. Gurney Crystallogr. 30 By the type of symmetry of a crystal we mean the number and arrangement of its symmetral planes.

1892 B. F. Westcott Gospel of Life 10 The product of any particular seed is fixed within the limits of a type.

b. Natural History. A species or genus which most perfectly exhibits the essential characters of its family or group, and from which the family or group is (usually) named; an individual embodying all the distinctive characteristics of a species, etc., esp. the specimen on which the first published description of a species is based.

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the world > life > biology > taxonomy > [noun] > archetype, syntype, etc.

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1840 W. Whewell Philos. Inductive Sci. I. viii. ii. 476 A Type is an example of any class, for instance, a species of a genus, which is considered as eminently possessing the characters of the class.

1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 61 The type of each genus should be that species in which the characters of its group are best exhibited, and most evenly balanced.

1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Salicornieus,..a tribe of the Chenopodeæ established by C. A. Meyer, having the Salicornia for their type.

1893 O. Thomas in Proc. Zool. Soc. 242 The following are..the definitions now suggested for the different terms: A Type is a single specimen either unaccompanied by others at the time of description, or else deliberately selected as such by the author out of a series.

1951 G. H. M. Lawrence Taxon. Vascular Plants ix. 205 The term type, used alone and unqualified, generally refers to the holotype.

1964 Internat. Code Zool. Nomencl. xiii. 59 The ‘type’ affords the standard of reference that determines the application of a scientific name.

1970 Watsonia 8 156 A herbarium sheet stated..to be the ‘type’..is, however, quite different.

c. Chemistry. A simple compound taken as representing the structure of more complex compounds.

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the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > [noun] > compounds > simple compound

type1852

1852 H. Watts tr. L. Gmelin Hand-bk. Chem. VII. 15 Dumas' Theory of Substitution and of Types.

1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. (1862) III. 48 Water, hydrochloric, and hydrosulphuric acid are, therefore, the patterns or types upon which these several bodies are formed.

1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 926 Bodies analogous in constitution, and exhibiting analogous reactions, are said to belong to the same type... In a wider sense, the formula HCl may be taken as the type of chlorides, bromides, iodides, fluorides, and cyanides.

d. Mathematics. (See quots.)

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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [noun] > collection or sequence of

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1891 Cent. Dict. Type 12. In math., a succession of symbols susceptible of + and − signs.

1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Type,..6. Math., the simplest of the forms equivalent with respect to a group.

e. Semiotics, etc. A sign representing a category or set of instances, as opposed to the individual tokens by which the category is instantiated. Cf. token n. 1f.

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the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > unit of meaning > [noun] > sign > type

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1908 C. S. Peirce Coll. Papers (1958) VIII. 240 I devoted much study to my ten trichotomies of signs... I..called..an Actisign a Token, a Famisign a Type.

1966 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xlvi. 13 The incidence of tokens is..equal to the sum of all forms... The incidence of types..is equal to the number of different forms.

1976 Biometrika 63 435 Shakespeare's known works comprise 884 647 total words, of which 14 376 are types appearing just one time, 4343 are types appearing twice, etc.

a. A small rectangular block, usually of metal or wood, having on its upper end a raised letter, figure, or other character, for use in printing. in types, in type (see 9b). Also figurative.

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society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > [noun] > a type

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1713 tr. J. de La Caille Hist. Art of Printing 54 Christopher Plantin..printed..that fine Bible..whose Types were casten and made at Paris.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Printing The Printing Letters, Characters, or Types as they are sometimes call'd.

1751 G. Berkeley Let. 30 Mar. in Wks. (1871) IV. 327 They are going to print..two editions..of Plato's works, in most magnificent types.

1799 Monthly Rev. 30 290 A method of printing maps and charts of any size by means of moveable types.

1829 T. B. Macaulay Westm. Reviewer's Def. Mill (ad fin.) The preceding article was written, and was actually in types, when [etc.].

1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. v. 138 The types which once had the die of thought struck fresh upon them.

1880 ‘V. Lee’ Stud. 18th Cent. Italy iii. ii. 102 Musical types had..been invented by an Italian.

b. singular. Types collectively; letter. in type, set up ready for printing.

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society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > [noun] > type

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1778 V. Knox Ess. xxxviii. 305 To trace the art in its gradual progress from the wooden and immoveable letter to the moveable and metal type.

1784 J. Belknap Belknap Papers (1877) II. 179 I believe some brethren of the type are offended at it.

1837 F. Palgrave Merchant & Friar (1844) Ded. 4 The work..had been kept in type for nearly a twelve-month.

1852 C. Dickens Let. 22 Nov. (1988) VI. 809 This story goes straightway into type.

1869 J. Tyndall Notes 9 Lect. on Light §71 Compositors arrange their type in this backward fashion, the type being reversed by the process of printing.

1882 J. Southward Pract. Printing (1884) 9 A bill of type is a table showing the number of each of the several sorts in a fount.

1904 R. J. Farrer Garden of Asia 63 Not China, but Korea, was the inventor of movable type, and the true parent of printing.

c. transferred. A printed character or characters, or an imitation of these.

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society > communication > printing > printed matter > printed character(s) > [noun]

type1785

1785 W. Cowper Task v. 419 To read engraven on the mouldy walls [of the Bastille] In stagg'ring types, his predecessor's tale.

1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics xxxviii. §183. 320 To see small objects distinctly..such as..a small type.

1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk I. 125 It was directed in the well-known type of Davy Diggs.

1872 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera (1896) I. xvi. 321 Here it is in full type, for it is worth careful reading.

Compounds

C1. General attributive. Also typewriter n., etc.

type-animal n.

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1851 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1850 19: Pt. i 35 This rare and beautiful creature [the giraffe], type-animal of their land.

1851 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1850 19: Pt. i 36 The elephant is evidently with these people, the type-animal.

type category n.

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1947 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 52 293 Kinship, its relationships and institutions, are the type categories of experience and the familial group is the unit of action.

type-character n.

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1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Nov. 865/3 Mr. Strauss hits off the foibles of his type-characters with wit and acumen.

type description n.

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1905 C. Schuchert & S. S. Buckman in Science 9 June 900/1 For the sake of accuracy we suggest that the original description by words (type-description) be called the protolog.

1962 J. A. Ford Quantitative Method for deriving Cultural Chronol. iii. 16 Other workers have sought to achieve greater precision by dealing not with types but with various elements, attributes, or ‘modes’..that are usually hidden away in the type description.

1967 J. Deetz Invitation to Archaeol. 51 An artifact type description is..a statement of a set of somewhat variable attributes which can be observed to occur together in the majority of cases.

type-figure n.

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1897 Westm. Gaz. 16 Mar. 2/1 Mr. Meredith..has himself drawn the great type-figure of modern fiction..‘The Egoist’.

type-fossil n.

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1854 R. I. Murchison Siluria iii. 52 The type-fossils..have not yet been detected.

type index n.

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1943 Mind 52 271 In Principia the need to avoid a small number of objectionable trains of argument is made the occasion for wholesale elaboration of symbolism (the introduction of type-indices).

1973 A. Dundes Mother Wit 114 These tools include various tale type indices and motif indices... By using tale type and motif indices, Dorson is able to demonstrate the European provenience of the greater portion of the tales.

type-man n.

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1871 T. L. Cuyler Heart-Life 37 He is the type-man for thorough-going fidelity.

1906 Duke of Argyll Autobiogr. I. ii. 32 The type-man was Wolfe Tone, the unscrupulous Villain.

type-name n.

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1928 L. P. Smith Words & Idioms 40 Some of these type-names give evidence of the impression made on foreigners by the travelling Englishmen of rank.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia X. 219/2 Type names,..those names given by the dramatist to characters in his play so that their personalities may be instantly ascertained.

type-number n.

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1871 C. Kingsley At Last xiii The nut ought to have..not one ovule, but three, the type-number in palms.

type-phase n.

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1911 Edinb. Rev. July 103 Isolated..caprices rather than type-phases of animal literature.

type-phenomenon n.

type-sample n.

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1894 Daily News 12 Sept. 7/1 Type-samples of unmanufactured tobacco sent for trade purposes.

type-series n.

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1887 J. G. Wood in 19th Cent. Mar. 395 I would have a type-series of the vertebrates, so that in going through the galleries the visitors would recognise the creatures they had seen grouped.

type-set n.

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printc1475

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worked-off1770

typographical1803

machine-printed1852

type-set1867

1867 W. T. Brande & G. W. Cox Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (new ed.) III. 726/2 The type-set message.

type-ship n.

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1901 Feilden's Mag. 4 421/1 The type-ship, which has been tried on the measured mile.

type-symptom n.

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1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 591 All the type symptoms of cerebellar abscess were present.

type-theme n.

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1901 Daily Chron. 14 June 3/4 In ‘Rosmersholm’ Ibsen has seized upon one of the great type-themes of modern life.

type-tragedy n.

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1931 S. Beckett Proust 7 The tragedy of the Marcel-Albertine liaison is the type-tragedy of the human relationship whose failure is preordained.

b. (In sense 9.)

type-arrangement n.

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1877 W. Boyd Descr. Model Newspaper A sheet..regarding type-arrangement, Excellent.

type-body n. body n. 11.

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1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. at Point system Under this system the old names of type-bodies, as nonpareil (now 6-point), bourgeois (now 9-point), etc., are in disuse.

type-case n.

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1891 Cent. Dict. Type-case.

1909 H. Hart in Periodical Feb. 294 A double-windowed room..was fitted up with compositors' frames and type-cases.

type-composition n.

type-foundry n.

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1809 T. Jefferson Let. 28 June in Writings (1904) XII. 295 The foundation of printing..is the type-foundry.

1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 454/1 The first and most important operation of a type-foundry is the formation of the punches.

type-mould n.

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1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 454/1 A type-mould [illustrated].

type-punch n.

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1888 Arts & Crafts Catal. 94 The current hand-writing may be elegant enough to be..used as a model for the type-punch engraver.

type-size n.

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1922 D. B. Updike Printing Types I. ii. 32 It [sc. the point system] placed type sizes upon a basis comprehensible to the meanest intelligence.

1978 Early Music 6 597/3 The physical presentation of Clementi is also gratifying. Type sizes are unusually ample.

c. Objective, instrumental.

type-founder n.

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1797 M. L. Weems Let. 13 July in Ford's M. L. Weems: Wks. & Ways (1929) II. 84 A letter was written..containing an order on Mr. Baine the Type Founder for some money.

1801 Philos. Mag. 10 270 A new art, that of the type-founder.

1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men I. iii. 349 A heavy assortment of great and small pica, newly arrived from the type-founder.

type-composing n.

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1878 W. S. Jevons Polit. Econ. 71 Some compositors still object to work in offices where type-composing machines are introduced.

type-creating n.

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1854 M. Evans tr. L. Feuerbach Essence Christianity vii. 75 Mind presenting itself as at once type-creating, emotional, and sensuous, is the imagination.

type-distributing n.

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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2676/1 Type-distributing machines have frequently been invented as companion machines to those for composing.

type-founding n.

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1839 T. C. Hansard Treat. Printing & Type-founding (1841) 222 The invention of the art of type-founding was a very early consequence of the discovery of the rude art of taking impressions from laboriously excised letters of wood and metal.

1875 W. Blades Some Early Type Specimen Bks. 4 The first positive notice we have of type-founding in England is the fount of Saxon cut by John Day for Archbishop Parker and used in 1567.

type-making n.

type-blackened adj.

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1900 R. Kipling in Daily Express 26 June 4/6 Allen wagged a type-blackened forefinger across the table.

type-marked adj.

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1866 G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 137 Hawthorn especially when thrown up with may is very clearly type-marked.

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type approval n. (see quot. 1979).

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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > [noun] > prior testing of product > status given by test

type approval1967

1967 Economist 15 Apr. 270/1 The Europeans are used to the ‘type approval’ on which most Continental governments insist before [motor] models can be sold.

1979 Gloss. Terms Quality Assurance (B.S.I.) 11/2 Type approval, the status given to a design that has been shown by type tests to meet all the requirements of the product specification and which is suitable for a specific application.

type area n. (a) the part of a page covered by print; (b) the location of a type-specimen or an area taken as typical of a particular group; Geology = type site n. below.

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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geology > [noun] > type area

type area1916

type locality1934

type site1935

society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > ancient culture > as defined by features of specific area

type area1916

society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [noun] > space available for or occupied by print > part of page covered by print

type area1916

boxout1975

1916 W. H. Hazell et al. Estimating for Printers 19 Before an estimate..can be worked out, the following points must be decided: Number of words in bookwork..; size of type,..and type area of page.

1937 Burlington Mag. June 309/2 Consideration of primitive work as craftsmanship..is no more essential for an æsthetic evaluation than the geographical location of type-areas.

1969 Proc. Geol. Soc. Aug. 146 Customary stratigraphical usage should be maintained by placing the marker-points as near to the stratigraphical correspondence with traditional boundaries as possible, although not necessarily in the traditional type-area.

1973 S. Jennett Making of Bks. (ed. 5) xvi. 338 There is a theory that the type area should be about 50 per cent of the page area.

1975Type area [see type site n.].

type-ball n. a spherical ball on certain kinds of electric typewriter on which all the type is mounted; = golf ball n. (b) at golf n. Compounds 2.

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society > communication > printing > typing > typewriter > [noun] > typewriter type > type-ball

golf ball1966

type-ball1971

1971 Computers & Humanities 6 43 The character set..is limited to the Selectric type-balls specified by the scanning service.

1977 Daily Tel. 3 Aug. 3/5 There has been a real search for a type ball from one of the IBM electric typewriters that were in the office.

type-bar n. (a) a line of type cast in a solid bar, as by the linotype; (b) in a typewriter, each of the bars carrying the letters or characters.

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society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > composed type > [noun] > bar

slug1871

type-bar1886

1886 Science 17 Sept. 252/2 As the type-bar of a type-writer is connected with its key.

1891 in Cent. Dict.

type basket n. the assembly of type-bars in a typewriter.

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type basket1931

1931 M. Crooks Bk. of Underwood Typewriter ii. 10 Above and behind the keyboard, occupying practically the centre of the framework, is the type—this part of the machine is known as the Type-Basket.

1968 Typing (‘Know the Craft’ Series) 4/1 Every machine has a type basket and a carriage.

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type-block n. a block having raised characters on its face, used to impress words or figures, as in gilding (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875).

type-blow n. the impact of the type on the paper in a typewriter.

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type-blow1901

1901 Phonetic Jrnl. 15 June 371/1 In..an electrical typewriter..the type-blow, or the hammer-blow, will be automatic.

type-carriage n. in a printing-machine, a frame carrying the form.

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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > carriage

train1594

type-carriage1825

coffin1888

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 307 By the farther motion of the type carriage, the ink-table is caused to pass under four small elastic rollers.

type-chart n. a chart or outline of a typical object or structure.

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society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing plans or diagrams > [noun] > a plan or diagram > outline drawing > chart of typical object

type-chart1887

1887 J. G. Wood in 19th Cent. Mar. 386 There are type-charts of each organ.

type-copy v. archaic transitive.

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society > communication > printing > typing > type [verb (transitive)] > in specific manner

type-copy1890

copy-type1956

1890 H. James Let. 10 Nov. (1981) III. 307 A shorter story..which I am just sending off to be typecopied.

type-copy n. archaic a typewritten copy.

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society > communication > printing > typing > [noun] > typewritten material

typewriting1867

type-copy1893

typescript1893

typoscript1893

TS1942

1893 H. James Let. 2 July (1981) III. 416 I have determined to dispatch by the same post as this note, in another cover, a fresh type-copy of the said first act.

type-cutter n. one who engraves the dies or punches from which types are cast; a punch-cutter.

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society > communication > printing > type founding > type-founder > [noun] > engraver of punches

type-cutter?1881

?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 51 Type cutter, founder.

1890 Athenæum 1 Mar. 281/3 He was a die-sinker and type-cutter.

type-cutting n.

type-cylinder n. the cylinder on which the types or plates are fastened in a rotary press.

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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > cylinder > type or plate cylinder

type-cylinder1839

plate cylinder1871

1839 T. C. Hansard Treat. Printing & Type-founding (1841) 156 An inking apparatus was applied to the type-cylinder, and the paper was to be impressed by passing between the two.

type-desk n. a desk or table at which typewriting is done.

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deskc1405

lectern1509

dess1552

book desk1686

prie-dieu1687

bureau1698

secretary1803

toys1816

secretaire1818

consulting-desk1823

slope1833

box-desk1860

roll-top1884

type-desk1901

partners' desk1925

partners' pedestal desk1930

console1944

1901 F. Harrison in 19th Cent. June 918 Every girl at a type-desk or a telegraph office may live to reside in Fifth Avenue.

type-dressing n. the scraping, polishing, etc., of newly cast type: in quot. attributive.

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society > communication > printing > type founding > [noun] > polishing newly cast type

type-dressing1875

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2676/1 Type-dressing machine..passes the type set up in rows between a pair of knife-blades set in exact parallelism.

typeface n. a set of printing type of a particular design; cf. face n. 21, fount n.²

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society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [noun] > type face or font

letter1576

alphabet1658

font1664

fond1678

fount of type1683

face1876

typeface1887

1887 T. B. Reed Hist. Old Eng. Letter Foundries i. 40 It now remains to trace briefly the origin and development of the leading type-faces used in English Typography.

1923 S. Morison On Type Faces p. v The choice of type face is always a matter of immediate and insistent importance.

1980 B. Crutchley To be Printer v. 65 Bodoni..produced in his lifetime over four hundred type faces.

type facsimile n. a copy of a piece of printing which is either a page-for-page copy using type as close as possible to the original or an exact photographic reproduction.

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society > communication > printing > printed matter > [noun] > facsimile or photograph of type

type facsimile1900

1900 (title) Type Facsimile Society. Publications of the Society for the year 1900.

1966 Eng. Studies 47 298 It [sc. old spelling] does no harm, provided the reader is not misled into using the book as a type-facsimile.

type-fallacy n. Logic the fallacy or mistake of including amongst the members of a type or category something belonging to another type or category (see quot. 1908).

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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > logical argument > [noun] > logical fallacy > other types of fallacy

ignoratio elenchi1559

fallacy of (the) accident1568

fallacy of division?1582

amphiboly1588

amphibology1589

equivocation1605

dominative argument1656

fallacy of the heapa1774

illicit process1827

obscurum per obscurius1842

genetic fallacy1904

type-fallacy1935

1908 B. Russell Logic & Knowl. (1956) 75 The division of objects into types is necessitated by the reflexive fallacies which otherwise arise. These fallacies..are to be avoided by what may be called the ‘vicious-circle principle’; i.e., ‘no totality can contain members defined in terms of itself’.]

1935 Mind 44 150 Now, of course, the word ‘about’ is very ambiguous; but, in one sense of it, to say that a proposition is about itself is to commit the simplest of type-fallacies.

1952 Mind 61 130 The type-fallacy that only moral goodness itself is good.

1967 Philosophy 42 3 A transition from one to the other would then become tantamount to a category-mistake or type-fallacy.

† type-fever n. Obsolete an intermittent fever, an ague.

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tertian1362

quartana1387

quotidiana1398

ephemera1398

quarterna1568

day-fever1601

nonan1601

quintan1601

septimane1601

sextan1601

semitertian1609

triple quartan1625

diary1640

septan1657

third ague1674

quartanary1684

subintrant1684

intermittent1693

nonary1747

seven day fever1788

octan1799

third-day ague1818

type-fever1819

triple tertian1822

triplicate quartan (ague)1822

tetartophyia1842

1819 Sir A. Boswell in Poet. Wks. & Mem. Introd. 33 Being infected with the type-fever the fits have periodically returned.

type-form n. (a) = form n. 20a; (b) a typical or representative form.

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type-form1839

society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > composed type > [noun] > forme

form1481

type-form1839

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1035 To adapt this method of inking to a flat type-form machine.

1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 660 Mr. Applegarth..decided on abandoning the reciprocating motion of the type-form.

1900 F. H. Stoddard Evol. Eng. Novel 218 Mankind demands that it shall show conformity to a certain type-form.

1901 Nature 19 Dec. 168/1 The author divides the species into the type-form and four varieties.

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type-gauge n. (a) a gauge used by type-founders to test the size of type-bodies; (b) a type-measure ( Encycl. Dict., 1888).

type-genus n. the genus which most perfectly exemplifies the essential characters of the family to which it belongs; esp. the genus from which the name of the family is taken.

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the world > life > biology > taxonomy > [noun] > archetype, syntype, etc.

species1644

type1840

type-genus1840

type-species1840

archetype1849

type-specimen1875

monotype1881

necrotype1883

cotype1893

paratype1893

topotype1893

homotype1896

genotype1897

holotype1897

homoeotype1905

lectotype1905

neotype1905

syntype1909

allotype1910

haplotype1914

1840 W. Whewell Philos. Inductive Sci. I. viii. ii. 477 The type-species of every genus, the type-genus of every family, is, then, one which possesses all the characters and properties of the genus in a marked and prominent manner.

1896 Guide Fossil Reptiles & Fishes Brit. Mus. 65 Dr. Filhol records the type-genus from the Upper Eocene Phosphorites of France.

type height n. = height n. 1c.

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society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > [noun] > height of type

height1683

type height1905

1905 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Handbk. (ed. 3) 22 There is some uncertainty as to what is type-height, and therefore all those engaged in supplying blocks..to the printer should remember that type-height is ·9175 inch.

1931 R. R. Karch Printing & Allied Trades iii. 9 Type heights differ in foreign countries. In England the height is ·917; France, Germany and Spain ·928.

1973 S. Jennett Making of Bks. (ed. 5) ii. 40 Type height, or height to paper, is not the same thing as height of face.

type-high adj. and adv. (a) adj. of the standard height of type (i.e. in Great Britain formerly ·9175 in., now and in U.S. ·918 in.); (b) adv. as high as, so as to correspond in height with, type.

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society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > [adjective] > standard height

type-high1890

society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > [adverb] > corresponding in height

type-high1890

1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 213 The copper electro is mounted type-high, and becomes the block from which the printing is made.

1896 T. L. De Vinne in Moxon's Mech. Exerc.: Printing (new ed.) II. 406 Brass Rule..cut in strips type-high.

type-holder n. an instrument for holding types, used for stamping or lettering books ( Cent. Dict. 1891).

type-larval adj. of or pertaining to a type larva, i.e. one which exhibits features characteristic of the group to which it belongs, which do not appear in the adult form.

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the world > animals > family unit > [adjective] > young > larval > of a type larva

type-larval1884

1884 Hyatt in Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 5 Mar. 122 Their embryonic history has no stage which exhibits..a distinct type-larval stage.

type-letter n. each of the types or letters of a typewriter.

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society > communication > printing > typing > typewriter > [noun] > typewriter type

type-letter1876

1876 Nature 18 May 43/2 Two keys struck at the same time must consequently cause two type-letters to clash in their attempt to reach the same spot, the centre of the circle.

type-lever n. a lever by which a type or character is impressed, as in a linotype.

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nut1642

justifier1683

star1819

page-cord1841

joggling-table1849

spur1872

web feed1890

type-lever1908

banjo1964

thimble1979

1908 Daily Chron. 26 Aug. 5/2 The typist has at his disposal all kinds of type on type wheels which are fixed at the end of type levers.

type locality n. = type area n. (b), above, type site n. below.

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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geology > [noun] > type area

type area1916

type locality1934

type site1935

the world > life > biology > taxonomy > [noun] > archetype, syntype, etc. > location of a type-specimen

type locality1934

1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Type-locality.

1937 Brit. Birds 31 10 Dr. Ticehurst has given as type-locality Lincolnshire.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 874/2 Type locality, the locality from which a rock, formation, etc., has been named and described, usually because of its characteristic occurrence there.

1962 R. M. Gordon & M. M. J. Lavoipierre Entomol. for Students of Med. liii. 325 The locality from which the holotype was collected is known as the ‘type locality’.

1969 Proc. Geol. Soc. Aug. 159 Donovan..stated Watchet to be the type-locality of the index species of the zone, but gave no type-locality for the zone itself.

type-matter n. printed matter, letterpress.

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society > communication > printing > printed matter > [noun] > matter printed from type

letterpress1707

type-matter1892

1892 Photogr. Ann. II. p. clxiv (advt.) Phototype Prints are the best for reproducing Portraits [etc.]..Type Matter requires a second printing.

type-measure n.

type-measurer n. a rule showing the depth of the various kinds of type, used in calculating the number of lines or ems in composed type; (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.).

type-metal n. an alloy of lead and antimony, sometimes with tin or bismuth, of which printing types are cast.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > alloy > [noun] > other alloys of lead

pot metal1601

type-metal1800

shot-metal1875

1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. I. 445 Antimony and lead form a most valuable mixture; it is that used for printing-types, and is called Type-Metal.

1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. at To stereotype To make type-metal plates to print from at the letter-press.

1850 D. T. Ansted Elem. Course Geol. §475 [Antimony] is used in the manufacture of type metal, of which it forms from one fourth to a twelfth part, the rest being lead, with a little tin, bismuth, and copper.

1882 J. Southward Pract. Printing (1884) 15 Type metal is of two kinds, ordinary and hard.

type-music n. music printed from types.

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type-music1882

1882 J. Southward Pract. Printing (1884) 342 This system undoubtedly brings type-music into disrepute.

type-page n. the page of type or letterpress as distinct from the paper-page on which it is printed.

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page1728

type-page1910

1910 Athenæum 19 Mar. 348/1 The relation of type-page to paper-page is..still open, within certain limits, to individual taste.

type-paper n. paper suitable for typewriting.

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type-paper1906

typing paper1944

1906 Daily Chron. 27 Jan. 6/4 They make the better-class papers known as ‘banks’, ‘type’ papers, ‘drawing’ papers, and high-class writing papers.

type-printed adj. printed from types; also, type-written.

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typewritten1888

typed1890

type-printed1892

typescript1893

typoscript1893

typescripted1979

1892 Daily News 26 Feb. 7/3 I searched Sampson before leaving..and found..two type-printed statements relating to the charge.

type-printing n.

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1839 T. C. Hansard Treat. Printing & Type-founding (1841) 59 There does not appear to be any vestige of an art in any degree similar (such as block-printing) having been practised prior to the introduction of type-printing.

1876 Nature 18 May 43/1 The sewing-machine or the more novel type-printing apparatus.

type-psychology n. psychological study or theory based on the classification of people or phenomena by type.

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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of personality > psychology of types > [noun]

type-psychology1932

1932 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. July 77 The considerable growth of ‘type’ psychologies has been a leading characteristic of recent psychological and clinical study and speculation.

1952 H. Read Philos. Mod. Art iv. 83 The science of typology—or type-psychology as it is more often called—is comparatively modern.

type-rule n. ( Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895).

type-scale n. = type-measure n. ( Cent. Dict. 1891).

typescript n. and adj. [compare typoscript n. at typo- comb. form ] (a) n. type-written matter or copy; (b) adj. typewritten.

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society > communication > printing > typing > [noun] > typewritten material

typewriting1867

type-copy1893

typescript1893

typoscript1893

TS1942

society > communication > printing > typing > [adjective] > typewritten

typewritten1888

typed1890

type-printed1892

typescript1893

typoscript1893

typescripted1979

1893 A. Estoclet in Nation (N.Y.) 6 July 10/3 Writing..concerning a typewritten document.., I half apologetically used the word ‘type~script’.

1906 N. W. Thomas Kinship Organisations Pref. He has read twice over my typescript MS, and my proofs.

1907 H. Wyndham Flare of Footlights xxix Adrian recognized it as the typescript of his one-act play.

typescript v. (transitive) to record in typescript.

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1976 Amer. Speech 1974 49 19 H. Rex Wilson..was probably the first linguistic geographer to propose typescripting entire interviews.

typescripted adj.

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typewritten1888

typed1890

type-printed1892

typescript1893

typoscript1893

typescripted1979

1979 Amer. Notes & Queries Mar. 106/1 Nor did Fisher ever mention to Crane or to me his Plowshare publications of Greenberg, which included ‘The Charming Maiden’ (June 1918) ‘Serenade in Grey’, ‘Regret At Parting’, and ‘Where Sweepest Thou’ (January 1920), all later typescripted by Hart Crane.

1980 Amer. Speech 1976 51 204 A typescripted record represents several weeks of tedious work.

typescripting n.

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typinga1638

typewriting1867

writing1876

typescripting1981

1981 Amer. Speech 56 258 The typescripting or computer-taping and indexing of LAGS field records are now considered supplemental descriptive components of the atlas.

typeset adj.

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1903 Westm. Gaz. 17 Nov. 2/1 A type set of the collections representing the massive rocks of the island.

typesetter n. a compositor; also, a composing-machine.

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society > communication > printing > printer > [noun] > compositor

compositor1569

composer1634

setter1648

galley slave1683

typo1816

type-sticker1842

typist1843

setter-up1853

case man1855

typesetter1867

comp1870

compositress1885

society > communication > printing > composing equipment > [noun] > type-setting machines

typesetter1867

typograph1886

typotheter1888

autoplate1901

composing-machine-

1867 W. T. Brande & G. W. Cox Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (new ed.) III. 726/2 Ten type-setters under Bonelli's system can compose at least 300 despatches per hour.

1888 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. VII. Type-setter, 2, a type-setting or composing machine.

1899 Daily News 24 June 4/4 When women first began as type-setters in Boston, the male type-setters struck.

1911 T.P.'s Weekly 29 Dec. 844/1 Young's Patent Composing Machine..was the name of the first practical type-setter, seventy years ago.

typesetting n. and adj.

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society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > composing > [noun]

composing1708

composition1832

typesetting1846

comping1888

type-work1910

society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > composing > [adjective]

typesetting1846

machine-set1908

society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > composing > [noun] > composing on a machine

typesetting1846

1846 S. F. Smith Theatr. Apprenticeship ii. 30 She..would then dismiss us to our type-setting.

1848 Commerc. Rev. South & West July 52 But the printer is too important..to have his usefulness set aside by the multiplication of type-setting and press-working machines.

1867 W. T. Brande & G. W. Cox Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (new ed.) III. 726/2 Converting the telegraph stations..into so many type-setting workshops.

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Type-setting machine, a composing-machine for type.

1886 Science 17 Sept. 254/1 Justification will be as easily accomplished as in ordinary type-setting.

type site n. Archaeology Geology etc., a site the features of which are used to define, or are paradigmatic of, a culture, stratigraphic level, etc.

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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geology > [noun] > type area

type area1916

type locality1934

type site1935

1935 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 1 6 The Late Bronze Age assemblage to which the type site offers no significant parallel.

1959 J. D. Clark Prehist. Southern Afr. vi. 159 Bambata is the type site for the Stillbay Culture in Rhodesia.

1969 Proc. Geol. Soc. Aug. 157 Table 1..gives the sequence of stages so far defined for the Quaternary of the British Isles. The stage names are based either on type-sites or type-areas.

1975 J. G. Evans Environment Early Man Brit. Isles i. 8 Each interglacial is named after a type site or area where deposits of that stage occur.

1981 P. Salway Roman Brit. 7 A ‘type-site’ is, in archaeological jargon, the site after which a culture is named, often the site at which it was first discovered or recognized as distinct.

type-slug n. = type-bar n. (a) ( Funk's Stand. Dict., 1895).

type-species n. Natural History a species which most perfectly exemplifies its genus; esp. the species on which the genus is based.

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the world > life > biology > taxonomy > [noun] > archetype, syntype, etc.

species1644

type1840

type-genus1840

type-species1840

archetype1849

type-specimen1875

monotype1881

necrotype1883

cotype1893

paratype1893

topotype1893

homotype1896

genotype1897

holotype1897

homoeotype1905

lectotype1905

neotype1905

syntype1909

allotype1910

haplotype1914

1840 W. Whewell Philos. Inductive Sci. I. viii. ii. 476 All the species which have a greater affinity with this type-species than with any others, form the genus.

type-specimen n. (a) Natural History a specimen or individual on which the species is based, and from which the specific name is taken; also figurative; (b) a printed sheet or booklet showing the variety of typefaces a printer or founder has available.

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the world > life > biology > taxonomy > [noun] > archetype, syntype, etc.

species1644

type1840

type-genus1840

type-species1840

archetype1849

type-specimen1875

monotype1881

necrotype1883

cotype1893

paratype1893

topotype1893

homotype1896

genotype1897

holotype1897

homoeotype1905

lectotype1905

neotype1905

syntype1909

allotype1910

haplotype1914

society > communication > printing > record and reference books > [noun] > booklet of type faces

type-specimen1875

1875 W. Blades Some Early Type Specimen Bks. 3 When printers were their own type-founders their works were their own type-specimen.

1891 Cent. Dict. Type specimen.

1894 Geol. Mag. Oct. 435 J. Sowerby's type-specimens of Ammonites Brocchii are much more inflated than the present species.

1904 G. L. Kittredge Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads p. xxvi ‘The Hangman's Tree’ is a survival of an archaic type-specimen.

1922 D. B. Updike Printing Types I. xi. 133 A few ‘type specimens’ were issued by founders, and some by printers.

type-sticker n. a compositor (slang).

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society > communication > printing > printer > [noun] > compositor

compositor1569

composer1634

setter1648

galley slave1683

typo1816

type-sticker1842

typist1843

setter-up1853

case man1855

typesetter1867

comp1870

compositress1885

1842 H. Greeley Corr. R. W. Griswold (1898) 104 Which you will keep out of the dirty hands of all type-stickers.

type-system n. a system of teaching by types or representative specimens.

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society > education > teaching > [noun] > other methods of teaching

demonstration1742

bear-leading1766

royal road1793

tachydidaxy1846

object teaching1851

object system1862

methodic1864

community education1873

methodics1883

maieutics1885

type-system1901

direct method1904

spoon-feeding1905

play method1914

playway1914

project method1916

active learning1919

study skills1924

skit1926

free activity1929

hypnopaedia1932

sleep-teaching1932

chalk and talk1937

show-and-tell1941

demo1945

naming of (the) parts1946

team teaching1949

teleteaching1953

programming1954

audio-lingualism1961

immersion1965

dem1968

open learning1970

suggestopaedia1970

suggestopedy1970

distance learning1972

fast-tracking1972

paideia1982

tutorial1984

m-learning2001

1901 Nature 26 Sept. 526/1 Prosecuting a more detailed study of individual forms, as with the now universal type-system.

type test n. esp. Aeronautics a test conducted to determine whether a new piece of equipment meets its specifications; also attributive.

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the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > [noun] > specific tests or testing > test of materials or equipment > of new equipment against specification

type test1922

1922 Flight 14 267/1 The Bristol ‘Lucifer’ engine..has successfully passed its type-tests in accordance with British Air Ministry Type-Test Schedule of May, 1920.

1978 Proc. Internat. Conf. Noise Control Engin., San Francisco 743 Because of the complexity and cost of conducting certification type tests, a study was undertaken to determine the feasibility of using an alternative scheme to obtain approach and takeoff noise levels.

1979 Gloss. Terms Quality Assurance (B.S.I.) 11/2 Type test, a test or series of tests directed towards approval of a design, conducted to determine whether an item is capable of meeting the requirements of the product specification.

type-test v. (transitive) .

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the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > try or test [verb (transitive)] > new machinery or equipment > against specifications

type-test1946

1946 Sun (Baltimore) 17 May 6 (advt.) For sale: Stinson cabin monoplanes... Have been type-tested and declared eligible for certification by CAA.

type-theory n. Chemistry the theory of the derivation of compounds from types (sense 8c) by substitution.

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the world > matter > chemistry > chemistry as a science > chemical theories > [noun]

binary theory1863

material theory1863

type-theory1868

Bohr model1923

1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 927 The law of substitution is the expression of facts, which the type-theory was intended to explain.

type–token n. attributive in Semiotics, etc., pertaining to types and tokens, involving the relationship of type to tokens (see token n. 1f, sense 8e above).

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the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > unit of meaning > [adjective] > sign > type or token

type–token1960

1960 G. Herdan (title) Type-token mathematics: a textbook of mathematical linguistics.

1971 Computers & Humanities 5 133 A type/token ratio is computed for each text, where type is the number of different words occurring in the text and token is the total number of occurrences of all words in the text.

1979 Sci. Amer. Feb. 61/2 The type–token ratio, a parameter that reflects the size of the vocabulary employed by the author, was determined for each text.

type-transliteration n. transliteration into modern type or letterpress.

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society > communication > printing > manner or style of printing > [noun] > transliteration into modern type

type-transliteration1896

1896 Periodical No. i. 4 The unique MS...has been reproduced..in photo-facsimile and type-transliteration.

type-value n. value as a type or standard of comparison.

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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > conformity to or with a pattern, etc. > [noun] > a standard or norm > value as a standard

type-value1909

1909 R. R. Marett Threshold Relig. Introd. (1914) 25 When..a set of useful contrasts is obtained by means of such bundles, each bundle..is said to have ‘type-value’.

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type-wash n. a washing medium for type or plates (Webster, 1911).

type-wheel n. a wheel with raised characters on its periphery, as in the printing telegraph and in some typewriters.

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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > parts which hold type

type-wheel1849

turtle1860

print-wheel1931

print chain1962

print head1968

print train1969

daisy-wheel1977

1849 H. M. Noad Lect. Electr. (ed. 3) viii. 381 The rotatory motion given to the type wheel..until the required letter arrives opposite the paper.

1886 Science 17 Sept. 252/2 Fitted in vertical grooves in the periphery of the type-wheel are a number of steel types.

type-work n. letterpress; also type-setting, composing.

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society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > composing > [noun]

composing1708

composition1832

typesetting1846

comping1888

type-work1910

1910 H. C. G. Moule in Fundamentals II. vi. 107 The compositor ‘justifies’ a piece of typework, when he corrects, brings into perfect order, as to spaces between words and letters, and so on, the types which he has set up.

Derivatives

ˈtypeful adj. having the quality of a type; typical; symbolic.Apparently an isolated use.

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society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > symbolizing by a type > [adjective]

figurative1398

characteristical1591

typic1610

typical1612

characterical?c1622

characteristic1647

umbratile1665

typeful1889

typal1893

1889 Lucia E. F. Kimball in Chicago Advance 16 May How typeful this lovely blossom of the rare, sweet souls who strive..to make the bare, ugly places brighter and better.

typefy v.

Brit.

/ˈtʌɪpᵻfʌɪ/

U.S.

/ˈtaɪpəfaɪ/

(transitive) to put into type, to print.Apparently an isolated use.

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society > communication > printing > [verb (transitive)]

imprint1477

impress1508

print1511

stamp1555

press1579

pull1653

to take off1707

to throw off1720

strike1759

typefy1856

1856 J. Strang Glasgow & its Clubs 25 The blatant blusterings of every charlatan..must be pencilled and typefied, before the lapse of a few hours.

ˈtypeless adj. untyped, unprinted.Apparently an isolated use.

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1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain II. x. 708 Many authors..content to remain..in typeless obscurity.

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type 1 adj. Pathology designating or pertaining to some forms of diabetes, esp. insulin-dependent diabetes (see insulin-dependent adj. at insulin n. Additions).

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > metabolic disorders > [noun] > diabetes > types of

insipid diabetes1883

bronzed diabetes1898

haemochromatosis1899

bronze diabetes1901

type 11977

type 21977

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > metabolic disorders > [adjective] > diabetes > types of

maturity-onset1959

insulin-dependent1961

non-insulin-dependent1970

juvenile-onset1975

type 11977

type 21977

1977 Lancet 19 Mar. 638/1 Type I includes classic insulin-dependent juvenile-onset diabetes, insulin-dependent diabetes presenting in later life, and diabetes initially adequately controlled..but with islet-cell antibody (I.C.A.) in the serum.

1986 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 22 May 1366/1 So I believe there is something unique about Type I diabetes. Maybe it is more akin to polymyalgia rheumatica, which responds to some safe therapies that we have now.

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type 2 adj. Pathology designating or pertaining to some forms of diabetes, esp. the non-insulin-dependent type (see non-insulin-dependent adj. at non- prefix 3b).

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > metabolic disorders > [noun] > diabetes > types of

insipid diabetes1883

bronzed diabetes1898

haemochromatosis1899

bronze diabetes1901

type 11977

type 21977

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > metabolic disorders > [adjective] > diabetes > types of

maturity-onset1959

insulin-dependent1961

non-insulin-dependent1970

juvenile-onset1975

type 11977

type 21977

1977 Lancet 13 Aug. 325/2 Although juvenile-onset diabetes is predominantly type I and adult-onset diabetes is predominantly type II, the inaccuracies inherent in this oversimplification must have vitiated earlier attempts at genetic analysis.

1987 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 2) I. ix. 53/2 It is probably preferable to use the type I, type II scheme, in that considerable confusion arises from the term ‘insulin-dependent’, which is often equated in practice with insulin-treated, which will depend on clinical practice and the state of the patient at a particular time.

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单词	type
释义	typen. Brit. /tʌɪp/, U.S. /taɪp/ Forms: Also 1500s–1600s tipe. Etymology: < French type (16th cent. in Littré) or Latin typus, < Greek τύπος impression, figure, type, < the root of τύπτειν to beat, strike. 1. a. That by which something is symbolized or figured; anything having a symbolical signification; a symbol, emblem; spec. in Theology a person, object, or event of Old Testament history, prefiguring some person or thing revealed in the new dispensation; correlative to antitype. in (the) type, in symbolic representation. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol tokeningc888 tokenc890 print1340 bannerc1380 signingc1390 signala1393 signc1400 similitude?c1400 type?a1500 sacrament1534 resemblance1548 adumbration1552 character1569 picture1580 symbol1590 moral?1594 attribute1600 symbolization1603 allegory1606 emblema1616 hieroglyph1646 simile1682 documentor1684 symptoma1687 monument1728 metaphor1836 presentation1866 symbolisms1876 ideogram1897 picture message1912 figura1959 society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Old Testament > [noun] > prefiguring NT anagoge1569 type1607 figura1959 a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Cock & Fox l. 587 in Poems (1981) 26 Suppose this be ane fabill, And ouerheillit wyth typis figurall. 1590 ‘Hobynoll’ To Learned Sheph. v, in Spenser's F.Q. Pref. Verses That fare Ilands right, Which thou dost vayle in Type of Faery land, Elizas blessed field, that Albion hight. 1607 S. Hieron Abridgem. of Gospell in Wks. (1620) I. 104 The people of Israel were a tipe of Gods people: Canaan a tipe of heauen. 1654 Bp. J. Taylor Real Presence v. 103 He offered wine not water in the type..of his bloud. 1706 M. Prior Ode to Queen xxxiv The British Rose, Type of sweet Rule, and gentle Majesty. a1785 J. W. Fletcher Posthumous Pieces (1791) 280 [Marriage] the most perfect type of our Lord's mystical union with his church. 1819 H. B. Henderson Satires in India iv. 52 The Hookah's monstrous snake..: That type of eastern Luxury's excess. 1851 Kingsley in Life (1878) I. 255 It is only in proportion as we appreciate and understand the types that we can understand the anti-types. 1863 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer Greece & Greeks II. xii. 29 A river is always the type of human life. 1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost i. 15 Ceremonial actions, and washings, and purifications, which were the types and shadows of things to come. b. An imperfect symbol or anticipation of something.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1754 S. Foote Knights i. 4 The very Abstract of Penury! Sir John Cutler, with his transmigrated Stockings, was but a Type of him. †2. a. A figure or picture of something; a representation; an image or imitation. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > [noun] > a representation form?c1225 figurea1340 likeness1340 print1340 nebshaftc1350 resemblancea1393 visagea1400 similitude?a1425 representationc1450 simulacre1483 representa1500 semblance1513 idea1531 image1531 similitudeness1547 type1559 living image1565 portrait1567 counter-figure1573 shadow1580 countershape1587 umbrage1604 medal1608 reflex1608 remonstrance1640 transcript1646 configurationa1676 phantom1690 facsimile1801 personation1851 featuring1864 zoomorph1883 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 10 This Type do represent the world. 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 156 Wherfore behold the tipe before placed. 1572 G. Gascoigne Voy. to Holland in Hearbes 7 I must endite..A tipe of heauen, a liuely hew of hell. 1774 J. Bryant New Syst. II. 445 Lunar amulets, or types of the Ark in the form of a crescent. b. Numismatics The figure on either side of a coin or medal. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > memorial or monument > medal > [noun] > figure on type1785 society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > obverse or reverse of coin > device stamped on coin1362 stamp1555 stander1579 type1785 symbol1883 1785 T. Holcroft tr. Comtesse de Genlis Tales Castle (ed. 2) I. Notes 292 On the two sides..of a medal..are distinguished the type, and the inscription or legend. The type, or device, is the figure represented. 1853 H. N. Humphreys Coin Collector's Man. I. vi. 61 The crab, being perhaps at an early period made sacred to the river deity, became the principal type of the money of this city [Agrigentum]. 1904 W. M. Ramsay Lett. to Seven Churches xix. 262 Homer is one of the most frequent types on coins of the city. 3. A distinguishing mark or sign; a stamp. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > [noun] tokenc1000 distinctionc1374 differencea1398 signeta1425 knowledge?c1475 smell?a1505 markc1522 badge1529 note1583 impress1590 monument1590 type1595 stamp1600 pressure1604 mintage1612 criterion1613 impressa1628 differencer1633 lineament1638 mole1644 discrimination1646 tessera1647 diagnostic1651 monumental1657 discretive1660 signate1662 footmark1666 trait1752 memorandum1766 fingerprint1792 insignia1796 identifier1807 designative1824 cachet1840 differentiator1854 tanga1867 trademark1869 signature1873 totem1875 differential1883 earmarkings1888 paw print1894 discriminator1943 ident1952 1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 i. iv. 122 Thy father beares the type of king of Naples. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. iii. 31 Tennis and tall Stockings, Short blistred Breeches, and those types of Trauell. View more context for this quotation 1692 M. Prior Ode Imitation Horace viii. 28 Heav'n as plainly pointed out the King, As when he at the Altar stood, In all his Types and Robes of Powr. 1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter (1863) 11 The types of a really hospitable country house were an anker of whisky always on the spigot, a caldron ever on the bubble with boiling water. 1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter (1863) 44 All these things were the types of an intellectual vitality. 4. Pathology. The characteristic form of a fever; esp. the character of an intermittent fever as determined by its period. Cf. type-fever n. at Compounds 2. [So Latin typus.] Obsolete or merged in sense 5. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > characteristic form of type1601 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxii. xiv. 122 The fever also, Of what type or kind it is. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxvi. xi. 260 Some are wont to give of Cinque foile three leaves in a Tertian, and foure in a Quartane, and so rise to more according to the period or type of the rest. 1778 W. Cullen First Lines Pract. Physic (ed. 2) I. i. i. §29 With respect to the form, or Type, of fevers. 1818–20 E. Thompson Cullen's Nosologia (ed. 3) 187 [Fever] with intermission, varying (a) in type or period. 1858 J. Copland Dict. Pract. Med. I. 937/2 The type of masked ague is generally quotidian. 5. a. The general form, structure, or character distinguishing a particular kind, group, or class of beings or objects; hence transferred a pattern or model after which something is made. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > character or nature > [noun] birtha1250 the manner ofc1300 formc1310 propertyc1390 naturea1393 condition1393 qualitya1398 temperc1400 taragec1407 naturality?a1425 profession?a1439 affecta1460 temperament1471 essence?1533 affection1534 spirit?1534 temperature1539 natural spirit1541 character1577 complexion1589 tincture1590 idiom1596 qualification1602 texture1611 connativea1618 thread1632 genius1639 complexure1648 quale1654 indoles1672 suchness1674 staminaa1676 trim1707 tenor1725 colouring1735 tint1760 type1843 aura1859 thusness1883 physis1923 1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic II. iv. ii. §3 219 When we..see a creature resembling an animal, we compare it with our general conception of an animal; and if it agrees with that general conception, we include it in the class. The conception becomes the type of comparison. 1849 J. H. Parker Introd. Study Gothic Archit. i. 3 The original type of all Christian churches is universally acknowledged to have been the Roman Basilica. 1857 F. D. Maurice Epist. St. John i. 3 The type upon which the whole was constructed. 1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. i. 15 His face had lost all resemblance to the type of his heroic family. 1864 Soc. Science Rev. 3 Diseases are founded on types like animals, plants, systems of worlds [etc.]. 1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 4 The fundamental unity of type which the Divine reason has imposed on all things. 1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 12 A few diseases exhibit well-marked types. 1880 Mem. J. Legge vi. 76 Every creature has a type, a peculiar character of its own. b. Church History. [Greek τύπος τῆς πίστεως type of the faith.] An edict of the Emperor Constans II, promulgated a.d. 648, prohibiting further discussion of the Monothelite controversy. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical authority > [noun] > ordinance of type1728 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Type, is also a Name given to an Edict of the Emperor Constans... It had the Name Type, as being a kind of Formulary of Faith. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity II. iv. vi. 130 The Ecthesis of Heraclius was replaced by the Type of Constans. The Type..aspired to silence by authority this interminable dispute. 1902 H. K. Mann Hist. Popes I. i. 381 Paul caused the Emperor Constans to issue the ‘Type’... The ‘Type’ ordered the Ecthesis to be taken down, and forbade anyone in future to speak of either one or two wills or operations in Our Lord. 6. a. A kind, class, or order as distinguished by a particular character. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > [noun] > a kind, sort, or class kinc950 kindOE distinction?c1225 rowc1300 spece1303 spice1303 fashionc1325 espicec1386 differencea1398 statec1450 sort?1523 notion1531 species1561 vein1568 brood1581 rank1585 order1588 race1590 breed1598 strain1612 batch1616 tap1623 siege1630 subdivision1646 notionality1651 category1660 denomination1664 footmark1666 genus1666 world1685 sortment1718 tribe1731 assortment1767 description1776 style1794 grouping1799 classification1803 subcategory1842 type1854 basket1916 1854 D. Brewster More Worlds iv. 73 On a planet more magnificent than ours, may there not be a type of reason of which the intellect of Newton is the lowest degree? 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xx. 531 The Queen was sinking under small pox of the most malignant type. 1879 M. Arnold Porro unum est Necess. in Mixed Ess. 152 The instruction in both is of the same type. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. xlviii. 220 Three types of rural local government are discernible in America. 1897 D. W. Forrest Christ of Hist. & Exper. i. 31 It is a different type of moral character: another order of humanity. 1898 Jrnl. School Geogr. (U.S.) Oct. 306 The dominant weather type was clear, with light southerly winds and temperatures between 50° and 55°. This type was interrupted by two spells of cloudy weather, with northerly winds. b. Preceding a noun with ellipsis of of, = type of. Cf. -type suffix 2. U.S. colloquial. ΚΠ 1966 Word Study Dec. 2/2 He could not pick out things like a bridge from ‘this type distance’. 1979 Nature 22 Nov. p. xvii/1 The 110C systems may be used with virtually any type projector. 7. transferred. a. A person or thing that exhibits the characteristic qualities of a class; a representative specimen; a typical example or instance. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > typical or representative case > typical or representative thing or person forbysenc1175 figurea1340 forbyseninga1400 samplera1400 plot1551 pattern1555 resembler1581 representative1653 specimen1654 exponent1825 type1845 typification1845 1845 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man (ed. 2) 333 The Tahitians are considered by Lesson as the type of the whole Polynesian race. a1854 H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets (1857) v. 172 Shakspeare may be contemplated as the type of modern intellect and the representative of the European mind. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. viii. 67 It is a type of many. 1873 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera (1896) II. xxxiv. 236 Sir Roger de Coverley is a character, as well as a type. b. spec. A person or thing that exemplifies the ideal qualities or characteristics of a kind or order; a perfect example or specimen of something; a model, pattern, exemplar. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > prototype > [noun] > model, pattern, or example byseningc1175 mirrora1300 samplera1300 formc1384 calendarc1385 patternc1425 exemplar?a1439 lighta1450 projectc1450 moul1565 platform1574 module1608 paradigma1623 specimen1642 butt1654 paradigm1669 type1847 fore-mark1863 model1926 the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [noun] > perfect person or thing > model patronessc1450 modela1586 type1847 1847 R. W. Emerson Goethe in Wks. (1906) I. 392 He is the type of culture. a1853 F. W. Robertson Wordsworth in Lect. 228 Arnold of Rugby is the type of English action; Wordsworth is the type of English thought. 1858 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) III. ii. i. 221 Plato is the very type of soaring philosophy. c. A person of a certain (specified or implicit) character; one's type, the sort of person to whom one is attracted (usually in neg. or interrog. contexts). Also simply, a person; as a gallicism, also with pronunciation /tiːp/, derogatory. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > [noun] > as having character or qualities thingc1225 headc1300 vesselc1384 soul1498 sprite?1507 spirit1559 stick1682 character1749 fish1751 hand1756 subject1797 person1807 good1809 specimen1817 a (bad, good, etc.) sortc1869 proposition1894 cookie1913 type1922 city1946 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. 606 She also was Spanish or half so, types that wouldn't do things by halves, passionate abandon of the south. 1930 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals (1932) 327 I played piquet with our schoolmaster... That was a type upon whom our War had done bad work. 1931 K. Boyle Plagued by Nightingale xv. 123 Luc could fish with Nicholas... It's exactly what the poor type would prefer anyway! 1933 ‘G. Orwell’ Down & Out xxix. 216 ‘Low types,’ said the old Etonian, ‘very low types.’ 1934 F. B. Cuthrell Innocent Bystander vii. 130 Richardson did not interest her, he was not her ‘type’. 1942 T. Rattigan Flare Path ii. i. 127 You're the actor type, aren't you? 1948 ‘N. Shute’ No Highway ii. 41 It didn't do Fisher any good with the R.A.F. types. 1951 J. C. Fennessy Sonnet in Bottle i. v. 28 ‘Oh, by the way, do you know these types?’ and he introduced the two men with him. 1956 ‘A. Bridge’ Lighthearted Quest 199 I went to look for Colin in that red-haired type's house. 1962 A. Lurie Love & Friendship xiii. 250 You wouldn't like him... He's not your type. He's a little fat man. 1965 R. Morris & D. Morris Men & Snakes i. 16 Although an intrepid explorer type, he made a hasty exit. 1968 M. Jones Survivor iii. 51 ‘I'm asking you if you think she's at all his type.’ Stuart shrugged. ‘I shouldn't care to say what Martin's type is. Come to think of it, I'd say he has no type.’ 1971 D. E. Westlake I gave at Office 136 I was not alone in the room. Three army types were there..tall, fat, khaki-uniformed. 1974 J. Aiken Midnight is Place iv. 142 That type... He is a brigand! 1979 R. Jaffe Class Reunion ii. ii. 145 I've always thought you were very beautiful, Annabel. You always were just my type. 1979 A. Fraser King Charles II vii. 102 These were scarcely the types to risk life and limb. 1981 ‘M. Hebden’ Pel is Puzzled xi. 113 ‘Type over here... He recognises it.’ The ‘type over here’ was a man about thirty-five with long blond hair. 8. Technical uses from senses 5 – 7. a. Natural History, etc. A certain general plan of structure characterizing a group of animals, plants, etc.; hence transferred a group or division of animals, etc., having a common form or structure. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > taxonomy > taxon > [noun] > type or sub-type subtype1816 type1850 monotypy1931 1850 J. McCosh Method Divine Govt. (ed. 2) ii. ii. 162 In the organic kingdoms, there is an all-pervading system of types: there is a type for every particular species of plant and animal; a type for every leaf and every limb. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam liv. 78 So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life. View more context for this quotation 1866 Duke of Argyll Reign of Law iv. 215 The adaptability of the one Vertebrate Type to the..variety of Life to which it serves as..a home. 1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) ii. 122 You must try to refer to its type every flowering plant you meet with. 1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals i. 49 Such types or common plans as those of the Arthropoda, the Annelida, the Mollusca [etc.]. 1878 H. P. Gurney Crystallogr. 30 By the type of symmetry of a crystal we mean the number and arrangement of its symmetral planes. 1892 B. F. Westcott Gospel of Life 10 The product of any particular seed is fixed within the limits of a type. b. Natural History. A species or genus which most perfectly exhibits the essential characters of its family or group, and from which the family or group is (usually) named; an individual embodying all the distinctive characteristics of a species, etc., esp. the specimen on which the first published description of a species is based. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > taxonomy > [noun] > archetype, syntype, etc. species1644 type1840 type-genus1840 type-species1840 archetype1849 type-specimen1875 monotype1881 necrotype1883 cotype1893 paratype1893 topotype1893 homotype1896 genotype1897 holotype1897 homoeotype1905 lectotype1905 neotype1905 syntype1909 allotype1910 haplotype1914 1840 W. Whewell Philos. Inductive Sci. I. viii. ii. 476 A Type is an example of any class, for instance, a species of a genus, which is considered as eminently possessing the characters of the class. 1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 61 The type of each genus should be that species in which the characters of its group are best exhibited, and most evenly balanced. 1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Salicornieus,..a tribe of the Chenopodeæ established by C. A. Meyer, having the Salicornia for their type. 1893 O. Thomas in Proc. Zool. Soc. 242 The following are..the definitions now suggested for the different terms: A Type is a single specimen either unaccompanied by others at the time of description, or else deliberately selected as such by the author out of a series. 1951 G. H. M. Lawrence Taxon. Vascular Plants ix. 205 The term type, used alone and unqualified, generally refers to the holotype. 1964 Internat. Code Zool. Nomencl. xiii. 59 The ‘type’ affords the standard of reference that determines the application of a scientific name. 1970 Watsonia 8 156 A herbarium sheet stated..to be the ‘type’..is, however, quite different. c. Chemistry. A simple compound taken as representing the structure of more complex compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > [noun] > compounds > simple compound type1852 1852 H. Watts tr. L. Gmelin Hand-bk. Chem. VII. 15 Dumas' Theory of Substitution and of Types. 1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. (1862) III. 48 Water, hydrochloric, and hydrosulphuric acid are, therefore, the patterns or types upon which these several bodies are formed. 1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 926 Bodies analogous in constitution, and exhibiting analogous reactions, are said to belong to the same type... In a wider sense, the formula HCl may be taken as the type of chlorides, bromides, iodides, fluorides, and cyanides. d. Mathematics. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [noun] > collection or sequence of expression1796 type1891 variation1891 plussage1918 string1932 substring1947 1891 Cent. Dict. Type 12. In math., a succession of symbols susceptible of + and − signs. 1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Type,..6. Math., the simplest of the forms equivalent with respect to a group. e. Semiotics, etc. A sign representing a category or set of instances, as opposed to the individual tokens by which the category is instantiated. Cf. token n. 1f. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > unit of meaning > [noun] > sign > type legisignc1903 type1908 1908 C. S. Peirce Coll. Papers (1958) VIII. 240 I devoted much study to my ten trichotomies of signs... I..called..an Actisign a Token, a Famisign a Type. 1966 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xlvi. 13 The incidence of tokens is..equal to the sum of all forms... The incidence of types..is equal to the number of different forms. 1976 Biometrika 63 435 Shakespeare's known works comprise 884 647 total words, of which 14 376 are types appearing just one time, 4343 are types appearing twice, etc. 9. a. A small rectangular block, usually of metal or wood, having on its upper end a raised letter, figure, or other character, for use in printing. in types, in type (see 9b). Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > [noun] > a type letter1563 type1713 printing type1728 Della Robbia1917 1713 tr. J. de La Caille Hist. Art of Printing 54 Christopher Plantin..printed..that fine Bible..whose Types were casten and made at Paris. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Printing The Printing Letters, Characters, or Types as they are sometimes call'd. 1751 G. Berkeley Let. 30 Mar. in Wks. (1871) IV. 327 They are going to print..two editions..of Plato's works, in most magnificent types. 1799 Monthly Rev. 30 290 A method of printing maps and charts of any size by means of moveable types. 1829 T. B. Macaulay Westm. Reviewer's Def. Mill (ad fin.) The preceding article was written, and was actually in types, when [etc.]. 1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. v. 138 The types which once had the die of thought struck fresh upon them. 1880 ‘V. Lee’ Stud. 18th Cent. Italy iii. ii. 102 Musical types had..been invented by an Italian. b. singular. Types collectively; letter. in type, set up ready for printing. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > [noun] > type letter1576 type1778 stamp1875 1778 V. Knox Ess. xxxviii. 305 To trace the art in its gradual progress from the wooden and immoveable letter to the moveable and metal type. 1784 J. Belknap Belknap Papers (1877) II. 179 I believe some brethren of the type are offended at it. 1837 F. Palgrave Merchant & Friar (1844) Ded. 4 The work..had been kept in type for nearly a twelve-month. 1852 C. Dickens Let. 22 Nov. (1988) VI. 809 This story goes straightway into type. 1869 J. Tyndall Notes 9 Lect. on Light §71 Compositors arrange their type in this backward fashion, the type being reversed by the process of printing. 1882 J. Southward Pract. Printing (1884) 9 A bill of type is a table showing the number of each of the several sorts in a fount. 1904 R. J. Farrer Garden of Asia 63 Not China, but Korea, was the inventor of movable type, and the true parent of printing. c. transferred. A printed character or characters, or an imitation of these. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printed matter > printed character(s) > [noun] type1785 1785 W. Cowper Task v. 419 To read engraven on the mouldy walls [of the Bastille] In stagg'ring types, his predecessor's tale. 1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics xxxviii. §183. 320 To see small objects distinctly..such as..a small type. 1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk I. 125 It was directed in the well-known type of Davy Diggs. 1872 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera (1896) I. xvi. 321 Here it is in full type, for it is worth careful reading. Compounds C1. General attributive. Also typewriter n., etc. a. type-animal n. ΚΠ 1851 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1850 19: Pt. i 35 This rare and beautiful creature [the giraffe], type-animal of their land. 1851 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1850 19: Pt. i 36 The elephant is evidently with these people, the type-animal. type category n. ΚΠ 1947 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 52 293 Kinship, its relationships and institutions, are the type categories of experience and the familial group is the unit of action. type-character n. ΚΠ 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Nov. 865/3 Mr. Strauss hits off the foibles of his type-characters with wit and acumen. type description n. ΚΠ 1905 C. Schuchert & S. S. Buckman in Science 9 June 900/1 For the sake of accuracy we suggest that the original description by words (type-description) be called the protolog. 1962 J. A. Ford Quantitative Method for deriving Cultural Chronol. iii. 16 Other workers have sought to achieve greater precision by dealing not with types but with various elements, attributes, or ‘modes’..that are usually hidden away in the type description. 1967 J. Deetz Invitation to Archaeol. 51 An artifact type description is..a statement of a set of somewhat variable attributes which can be observed to occur together in the majority of cases. type-figure n. ΚΠ 1897 Westm. Gaz. 16 Mar. 2/1 Mr. Meredith..has himself drawn the great type-figure of modern fiction..‘The Egoist’. type-fossil n. ΚΠ 1854 R. I. Murchison Siluria iii. 52 The type-fossils..have not yet been detected. type index n. ΚΠ 1943 Mind 52 271 In Principia the need to avoid a small number of objectionable trains of argument is made the occasion for wholesale elaboration of symbolism (the introduction of type-indices). 1973 A. Dundes Mother Wit 114 These tools include various tale type indices and motif indices... By using tale type and motif indices, Dorson is able to demonstrate the European provenience of the greater portion of the tales. type-man n. ΚΠ 1871 T. L. Cuyler Heart-Life 37 He is the type-man for thorough-going fidelity. 1906 Duke of Argyll Autobiogr. I. ii. 32 The type-man was Wolfe Tone, the unscrupulous Villain. type-name n. ΚΠ 1928 L. P. Smith Words & Idioms 40 Some of these type-names give evidence of the impression made on foreigners by the travelling Englishmen of rank. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia X. 219/2 Type names,..those names given by the dramatist to characters in his play so that their personalities may be instantly ascertained. type-number n. ΚΠ 1871 C. Kingsley At Last xiii The nut ought to have..not one ovule, but three, the type-number in palms. type-phase n. ΚΠ 1911 Edinb. Rev. July 103 Isolated..caprices rather than type-phases of animal literature. type-phenomenon n. type-sample n. ΚΠ 1894 Daily News 12 Sept. 7/1 Type-samples of unmanufactured tobacco sent for trade purposes. type-series n. ΚΠ 1887 J. G. Wood in 19th Cent. Mar. 395 I would have a type-series of the vertebrates, so that in going through the galleries the visitors would recognise the creatures they had seen grouped. type-set n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > [adjective] > printed printc1475 printed1481 imprinted1561 wrought-off1683 worked-off1770 typographical1803 machine-printed1852 type-set1867 1867 W. T. Brande & G. W. Cox Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (new ed.) III. 726/2 The type-set message. type-ship n. ΚΠ 1901 Feilden's Mag. 4 421/1 The type-ship, which has been tried on the measured mile. type-symptom n. ΚΠ 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 591 All the type symptoms of cerebellar abscess were present. type-theme n. ΚΠ 1901 Daily Chron. 14 June 3/4 In ‘Rosmersholm’ Ibsen has seized upon one of the great type-themes of modern life. type-tragedy n. ΚΠ 1931 S. Beckett Proust 7 The tragedy of the Marcel-Albertine liaison is the type-tragedy of the human relationship whose failure is preordained. b. (In sense 9.) type-arrangement n. ΚΠ 1877 W. Boyd Descr. Model Newspaper A sheet..regarding type-arrangement, Excellent. type-body n. body n. 11. ΚΠ 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. at Point system Under this system the old names of type-bodies, as nonpareil (now 6-point), bourgeois (now 9-point), etc., are in disuse. type-case n. ΚΠ 1891 Cent. Dict. Type-case. 1909 H. Hart in Periodical Feb. 294 A double-windowed room..was fitted up with compositors' frames and type-cases. type-composition n. type-foundry n. ΚΠ 1809 T. Jefferson Let. 28 June in Writings (1904) XII. 295 The foundation of printing..is the type-foundry. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 454/1 The first and most important operation of a type-foundry is the formation of the punches. type-mould n. ΚΠ 1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 454/1 A type-mould [illustrated]. type-punch n. ΚΠ 1888 Arts & Crafts Catal. 94 The current hand-writing may be elegant enough to be..used as a model for the type-punch engraver. type-size n. ΚΠ 1922 D. B. Updike Printing Types I. ii. 32 It [sc. the point system] placed type sizes upon a basis comprehensible to the meanest intelligence. 1978 Early Music 6 597/3 The physical presentation of Clementi is also gratifying. Type sizes are unusually ample. c. Objective, instrumental. type-founder n. ΚΠ 1797 M. L. Weems Let. 13 July in Ford's M. L. Weems: Wks. & Ways (1929) II. 84 A letter was written..containing an order on Mr. Baine the Type Founder for some money. 1801 Philos. Mag. 10 270 A new art, that of the type-founder. 1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men I. iii. 349 A heavy assortment of great and small pica, newly arrived from the type-founder. d. type-composing n. ΚΠ 1878 W. S. Jevons Polit. Econ. 71 Some compositors still object to work in offices where type-composing machines are introduced. type-creating n. ΚΠ 1854 M. Evans tr. L. Feuerbach Essence Christianity vii. 75 Mind presenting itself as at once type-creating, emotional, and sensuous, is the imagination. type-distributing n. ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2676/1 Type-distributing machines have frequently been invented as companion machines to those for composing. type-founding n. ΚΠ 1839 T. C. Hansard Treat. Printing & Type-founding (1841) 222 The invention of the art of type-founding was a very early consequence of the discovery of the rude art of taking impressions from laboriously excised letters of wood and metal. 1875 W. Blades Some Early Type Specimen Bks. 4 The first positive notice we have of type-founding in England is the fount of Saxon cut by John Day for Archbishop Parker and used in 1567. type-making n. e. type-blackened adj. ΚΠ 1900 R. Kipling in Daily Express 26 June 4/6 Allen wagged a type-blackened forefinger across the table. type-marked adj. ΚΠ 1866 G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 137 Hawthorn especially when thrown up with may is very clearly type-marked. C2. type approval n. (see quot. 1979). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > [noun] > prior testing of product > status given by test type approval1967 1967 Economist 15 Apr. 270/1 The Europeans are used to the ‘type approval’ on which most Continental governments insist before [motor] models can be sold. 1979 Gloss. Terms Quality Assurance (B.S.I.) 11/2 Type approval, the status given to a design that has been shown by type tests to meet all the requirements of the product specification and which is suitable for a specific application. type area n. (a) the part of a page covered by print; (b) the location of a type-specimen or an area taken as typical of a particular group; Geology = type site n. below. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > geology > [noun] > type area type area1916 type locality1934 type site1935 society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > ancient culture > as defined by features of specific area type area1916 society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [noun] > space available for or occupied by print > part of page covered by print type area1916 boxout1975 1916 W. H. Hazell et al. Estimating for Printers 19 Before an estimate..can be worked out, the following points must be decided: Number of words in bookwork..; size of type,..and type area of page. 1937 Burlington Mag. June 309/2 Consideration of primitive work as craftsmanship..is no more essential for an æsthetic evaluation than the geographical location of type-areas. 1969 Proc. Geol. Soc. Aug. 146 Customary stratigraphical usage should be maintained by placing the marker-points as near to the stratigraphical correspondence with traditional boundaries as possible, although not necessarily in the traditional type-area. 1973 S. Jennett Making of Bks. (ed. 5) xvi. 338 There is a theory that the type area should be about 50 per cent of the page area. 1975Type area [see type site n.]. type-ball n. a spherical ball on certain kinds of electric typewriter on which all the type is mounted; = golf ball n. (b) at golf n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > typing > typewriter > [noun] > typewriter type > type-ball golf ball1966 type-ball1971 1971 Computers & Humanities 6 43 The character set..is limited to the Selectric type-balls specified by the scanning service. 1977 Daily Tel. 3 Aug. 3/5 There has been a real search for a type ball from one of the IBM electric typewriters that were in the office. type-bar n. (a) a line of type cast in a solid bar, as by the linotype; (b) in a typewriter, each of the bars carrying the letters or characters. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > composed type > [noun] > bar slug1871 type-bar1886 1886 Science 17 Sept. 252/2 As the type-bar of a type-writer is connected with its key. 1891 in Cent. Dict. type basket n. the assembly of type-bars in a typewriter. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > typing > typewriter > [noun] > typewriter type > assembly of type-bars type basket1931 1931 M. Crooks Bk. of Underwood Typewriter ii. 10 Above and behind the keyboard, occupying practically the centre of the framework, is the type—this part of the machine is known as the Type-Basket. 1968 Typing (‘Know the Craft’ Series) 4/1 Every machine has a type basket and a carriage. Thesaurus » Categories » type-block n. a block having raised characters on its face, used to impress words or figures, as in gilding (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875). type-blow n. the impact of the type on the paper in a typewriter. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > typing > typewriter > [noun] > typewriter type > impact of type type-blow1901 1901 Phonetic Jrnl. 15 June 371/1 In..an electrical typewriter..the type-blow, or the hammer-blow, will be automatic. type-carriage n. in a printing-machine, a frame carrying the form. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > carriage train1594 type-carriage1825 coffin1888 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 307 By the farther motion of the type carriage, the ink-table is caused to pass under four small elastic rollers. type-chart n. a chart or outline of a typical object or structure. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing plans or diagrams > [noun] > a plan or diagram > outline drawing > chart of typical object type-chart1887 1887 J. G. Wood in 19th Cent. Mar. 386 There are type-charts of each organ. type-copy v. archaic transitive. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > typing > type [verb (transitive)] > in specific manner type-copy1890 copy-type1956 1890 H. James Let. 10 Nov. (1981) III. 307 A shorter story..which I am just sending off to be typecopied. type-copy n. archaic a typewritten copy. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > typing > [noun] > typewritten material typewriting1867 type-copy1893 typescript1893 typoscript1893 TS1942 1893 H. James Let. 2 July (1981) III. 416 I have determined to dispatch by the same post as this note, in another cover, a fresh type-copy of the said first act. type-cutter n. one who engraves the dies or punches from which types are cast; a punch-cutter. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > type founding > type-founder > [noun] > engraver of punches type-cutter?1881 ?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 51 Type cutter, founder. 1890 Athenæum 1 Mar. 281/3 He was a die-sinker and type-cutter. type-cutting n. type-cylinder n. the cylinder on which the types or plates are fastened in a rotary press. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > cylinder > type or plate cylinder type-cylinder1839 plate cylinder1871 1839 T. C. Hansard Treat. Printing & Type-founding (1841) 156 An inking apparatus was applied to the type-cylinder, and the paper was to be impressed by passing between the two. type-desk n. a desk or table at which typewriting is done. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > desk > [noun] deskc1405 lectern1509 dess1552 book desk1686 prie-dieu1687 bureau1698 secretary1803 toys1816 secretaire1818 consulting-desk1823 slope1833 box-desk1860 roll-top1884 type-desk1901 partners' desk1925 partners' pedestal desk1930 console1944 1901 F. Harrison in 19th Cent. June 918 Every girl at a type-desk or a telegraph office may live to reside in Fifth Avenue. type-dressing n. the scraping, polishing, etc., of newly cast type: in quot. attributive. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > type founding > [noun] > polishing newly cast type type-dressing1875 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2676/1 Type-dressing machine..passes the type set up in rows between a pair of knife-blades set in exact parallelism. typeface n. a set of printing type of a particular design; cf. face n. 21, fount n.² ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [noun] > type face or font letter1576 alphabet1658 font1664 fond1678 fount of type1683 face1876 typeface1887 1887 T. B. Reed Hist. Old Eng. Letter Foundries i. 40 It now remains to trace briefly the origin and development of the leading type-faces used in English Typography. 1923 S. Morison On Type Faces p. v The choice of type face is always a matter of immediate and insistent importance. 1980 B. Crutchley To be Printer v. 65 Bodoni..produced in his lifetime over four hundred type faces. type facsimile n. a copy of a piece of printing which is either a page-for-page copy using type as close as possible to the original or an exact photographic reproduction. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printed matter > [noun] > facsimile or photograph of type type facsimile1900 1900 (title) Type Facsimile Society. Publications of the Society for the year 1900. 1966 Eng. Studies 47 298 It [sc. old spelling] does no harm, provided the reader is not misled into using the book as a type-facsimile. type-fallacy n. Logic the fallacy or mistake of including amongst the members of a type or category something belonging to another type or category (see quot. 1908). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > logical argument > [noun] > logical fallacy > other types of fallacy ignoratio elenchi1559 fallacy of (the) accident1568 fallacy of division?1582 amphiboly1588 amphibology1589 equivocation1605 dominative argument1656 fallacy of the heapa1774 illicit process1827 obscurum per obscurius1842 genetic fallacy1904 type-fallacy1935 1908 B. Russell Logic & Knowl. (1956) 75 The division of objects into types is necessitated by the reflexive fallacies which otherwise arise. These fallacies..are to be avoided by what may be called the ‘vicious-circle principle’; i.e., ‘no totality can contain members defined in terms of itself’.] 1935 Mind 44 150 Now, of course, the word ‘about’ is very ambiguous; but, in one sense of it, to say that a proposition is about itself is to commit the simplest of type-fallacies. 1952 Mind 61 130 The type-fallacy that only moral goodness itself is good. 1967 Philosophy 42 3 A transition from one to the other would then become tantamount to a category-mistake or type-fallacy. † type-fever n. Obsolete an intermittent fever, an ague. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > fever of specific duration tertian1362 quartana1387 quotidiana1398 ephemera1398 quarterna1568 day-fever1601 nonan1601 quintan1601 septimane1601 sextan1601 semitertian1609 triple quartan1625 diary1640 septan1657 third ague1674 quartanary1684 subintrant1684 intermittent1693 nonary1747 seven day fever1788 octan1799 third-day ague1818 type-fever1819 triple tertian1822 triplicate quartan (ague)1822 tetartophyia1842 1819 Sir A. Boswell in Poet. Wks. & Mem. Introd. 33 Being infected with the type-fever the fits have periodically returned. type-form n. (a) = form n. 20a; (b) a typical or representative form. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > typical or representative case > a typical or representative form type-form1839 society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > composed type > [noun] > forme form1481 type-form1839 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1035 To adapt this method of inking to a flat type-form machine. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 660 Mr. Applegarth..decided on abandoning the reciprocating motion of the type-form. 1900 F. H. Stoddard Evol. Eng. Novel 218 Mankind demands that it shall show conformity to a certain type-form. 1901 Nature 19 Dec. 168/1 The author divides the species into the type-form and four varieties. Thesaurus » Categories » type-gauge n. (a) a gauge used by type-founders to test the size of type-bodies; (b) a type-measure ( Encycl. Dict., 1888). type-genus n. the genus which most perfectly exemplifies the essential characters of the family to which it belongs; esp. the genus from which the name of the family is taken. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > taxonomy > [noun] > archetype, syntype, etc. species1644 type1840 type-genus1840 type-species1840 archetype1849 type-specimen1875 monotype1881 necrotype1883 cotype1893 paratype1893 topotype1893 homotype1896 genotype1897 holotype1897 homoeotype1905 lectotype1905 neotype1905 syntype1909 allotype1910 haplotype1914 1840 W. Whewell Philos. Inductive Sci. I. viii. ii. 477 The type-species of every genus, the type-genus of every family, is, then, one which possesses all the characters and properties of the genus in a marked and prominent manner. 1896 Guide Fossil Reptiles & Fishes Brit. Mus. 65 Dr. Filhol records the type-genus from the Upper Eocene Phosphorites of France. type height n. = height n. 1c. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > [noun] > height of type height1683 type height1905 1905 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Handbk. (ed. 3) 22 There is some uncertainty as to what is type-height, and therefore all those engaged in supplying blocks..to the printer should remember that type-height is ·9175 inch. 1931 R. R. Karch Printing & Allied Trades iii. 9 Type heights differ in foreign countries. In England the height is ·917; France, Germany and Spain ·928. 1973 S. Jennett Making of Bks. (ed. 5) ii. 40 Type height, or height to paper, is not the same thing as height of face. type-high adj. and adv. (a) adj. of the standard height of type (i.e. in Great Britain formerly ·9175 in., now and in U.S. ·918 in.); (b) adv. as high as, so as to correspond in height with, type. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > [adjective] > standard height type-high1890 society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > [adverb] > corresponding in height type-high1890 1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 213 The copper electro is mounted type-high, and becomes the block from which the printing is made. 1896 T. L. De Vinne in Moxon's Mech. Exerc.: Printing (new ed.) II. 406 Brass Rule..cut in strips type-high. type-holder n. an instrument for holding types, used for stamping or lettering books ( Cent. Dict. 1891). type-larval adj. of or pertaining to a type larva, i.e. one which exhibits features characteristic of the group to which it belongs, which do not appear in the adult form. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > family unit > [adjective] > young > larval > of a type larva type-larval1884 1884 Hyatt in Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 5 Mar. 122 Their embryonic history has no stage which exhibits..a distinct type-larval stage. type-letter n. each of the types or letters of a typewriter. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > typing > typewriter > [noun] > typewriter type type-letter1876 1876 Nature 18 May 43/2 Two keys struck at the same time must consequently cause two type-letters to clash in their attempt to reach the same spot, the centre of the circle. type-lever n. a lever by which a type or character is impressed, as in a linotype. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > other parts nut1642 justifier1683 star1819 page-cord1841 joggling-table1849 spur1872 web feed1890 type-lever1908 banjo1964 thimble1979 1908 Daily Chron. 26 Aug. 5/2 The typist has at his disposal all kinds of type on type wheels which are fixed at the end of type levers. type locality n. = type area n. (b), above, type site n. below. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > geology > [noun] > type area type area1916 type locality1934 type site1935 the world > life > biology > taxonomy > [noun] > archetype, syntype, etc. > location of a type-specimen type locality1934 1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Type-locality. 1937 Brit. Birds 31 10 Dr. Ticehurst has given as type-locality Lincolnshire. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 874/2 Type locality, the locality from which a rock, formation, etc., has been named and described, usually because of its characteristic occurrence there. 1962 R. M. Gordon & M. M. J. Lavoipierre Entomol. for Students of Med. liii. 325 The locality from which the holotype was collected is known as the ‘type locality’. 1969 Proc. Geol. Soc. Aug. 159 Donovan..stated Watchet to be the type-locality of the index species of the zone, but gave no type-locality for the zone itself. type-matter n. printed matter, letterpress. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printed matter > [noun] > matter printed from type letterpress1707 type-matter1892 1892 Photogr. Ann. II. p. clxiv (advt.) Phototype Prints are the best for reproducing Portraits [etc.]..Type Matter requires a second printing. type-measure n. type-measurer n. a rule showing the depth of the various kinds of type, used in calculating the number of lines or ems in composed type; (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.). type-metal n. an alloy of lead and antimony, sometimes with tin or bismuth, of which printing types are cast. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > alloy > [noun] > other alloys of lead pot metal1601 type-metal1800 shot-metal1875 1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. I. 445 Antimony and lead form a most valuable mixture; it is that used for printing-types, and is called Type-Metal. 1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. at To stereotype To make type-metal plates to print from at the letter-press. 1850 D. T. Ansted Elem. Course Geol. §475 [Antimony] is used in the manufacture of type metal, of which it forms from one fourth to a twelfth part, the rest being lead, with a little tin, bismuth, and copper. 1882 J. Southward Pract. Printing (1884) 15 Type metal is of two kinds, ordinary and hard. type-music n. music printed from types. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > [noun] > music printed from types type-music1882 1882 J. Southward Pract. Printing (1884) 342 This system undoubtedly brings type-music into disrepute. type-page n. the page of type or letterpress as distinct from the paper-page on which it is printed. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > composed type > [noun] > page of type page1728 type-page1910 1910 Athenæum 19 Mar. 348/1 The relation of type-page to paper-page is..still open, within certain limits, to individual taste. type-paper n. paper suitable for typewriting. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > typing > typewriter > [noun] > typewriting paper type-paper1906 typing paper1944 1906 Daily Chron. 27 Jan. 6/4 They make the better-class papers known as ‘banks’, ‘type’ papers, ‘drawing’ papers, and high-class writing papers. type-printed adj. printed from types; also, type-written. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > typing > [adjective] > typewritten typewritten1888 typed1890 type-printed1892 typescript1893 typoscript1893 typescripted1979 1892 Daily News 26 Feb. 7/3 I searched Sampson before leaving..and found..two type-printed statements relating to the charge. type-printing n. ΚΠ 1839 T. C. Hansard Treat. Printing & Type-founding (1841) 59 There does not appear to be any vestige of an art in any degree similar (such as block-printing) having been practised prior to the introduction of type-printing. 1876 Nature 18 May 43/1 The sewing-machine or the more novel type-printing apparatus. type-psychology n. psychological study or theory based on the classification of people or phenomena by type. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of personality > psychology of types > [noun] type-psychology1932 1932 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. July 77 The considerable growth of ‘type’ psychologies has been a leading characteristic of recent psychological and clinical study and speculation. 1952 H. Read Philos. Mod. Art iv. 83 The science of typology—or type-psychology as it is more often called—is comparatively modern. type-rule n. ( Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895). type-scale n. = type-measure n. ( Cent. Dict. 1891). typescript n. and adj. [compare typoscript n. at typo- comb. form ] (a) n. type-written matter or copy; (b) adj. typewritten. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > typing > [noun] > typewritten material typewriting1867 type-copy1893 typescript1893 typoscript1893 TS1942 society > communication > printing > typing > [adjective] > typewritten typewritten1888 typed1890 type-printed1892 typescript1893 typoscript1893 typescripted1979 1893 A. Estoclet in Nation (N.Y.) 6 July 10/3 Writing..concerning a typewritten document.., I half apologetically used the word ‘type~script’. 1906 N. W. Thomas Kinship Organisations Pref. He has read twice over my typescript MS, and my proofs. 1907 H. Wyndham Flare of Footlights xxix Adrian recognized it as the typescript of his one-act play. typescript v. (transitive) to record in typescript. ΚΠ 1976 Amer. Speech 1974 49 19 H. Rex Wilson..was probably the first linguistic geographer to propose typescripting entire interviews. typescripted adj. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > typing > [adjective] > typewritten typewritten1888 typed1890 type-printed1892 typescript1893 typoscript1893 typescripted1979 1979 Amer. Notes & Queries Mar. 106/1 Nor did Fisher ever mention to Crane or to me his Plowshare publications of Greenberg, which included ‘The Charming Maiden’ (June 1918) ‘Serenade in Grey’, ‘Regret At Parting’, and ‘Where Sweepest Thou’ (January 1920), all later typescripted by Hart Crane. 1980 Amer. Speech 1976 51 204 A typescripted record represents several weeks of tedious work. typescripting n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > typing > [noun] typinga1638 typewriting1867 writing1876 typescripting1981 1981 Amer. Speech 56 258 The typescripting or computer-taping and indexing of LAGS field records are now considered supplemental descriptive components of the atlas. typeset adj. ΚΠ 1903 Westm. Gaz. 17 Nov. 2/1 A type set of the collections representing the massive rocks of the island. typesetter n. a compositor; also, a composing-machine. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printer > [noun] > compositor compositor1569 composer1634 setter1648 galley slave1683 typo1816 type-sticker1842 typist1843 setter-up1853 case man1855 typesetter1867 comp1870 compositress1885 society > communication > printing > composing equipment > [noun] > type-setting machines typesetter1867 typograph1886 typotheter1888 autoplate1901 composing-machine- 1867 W. T. Brande & G. W. Cox Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (new ed.) III. 726/2 Ten type-setters under Bonelli's system can compose at least 300 despatches per hour. 1888 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. VII. Type-setter, 2, a type-setting or composing machine. 1899 Daily News 24 June 4/4 When women first began as type-setters in Boston, the male type-setters struck. 1911 T.P.'s Weekly 29 Dec. 844/1 Young's Patent Composing Machine..was the name of the first practical type-setter, seventy years ago. typesetting n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > composing > [noun] composing1708 composition1832 typesetting1846 comping1888 type-work1910 society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > composing > [adjective] typesetting1846 machine-set1908 society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > composing > [noun] > composing on a machine typesetting1846 1846 S. F. Smith Theatr. Apprenticeship ii. 30 She..would then dismiss us to our type-setting. 1848 Commerc. Rev. South & West July 52 But the printer is too important..to have his usefulness set aside by the multiplication of type-setting and press-working machines. 1867 W. T. Brande & G. W. Cox Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (new ed.) III. 726/2 Converting the telegraph stations..into so many type-setting workshops. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Type-setting machine, a composing-machine for type. 1886 Science 17 Sept. 254/1 Justification will be as easily accomplished as in ordinary type-setting. type site n. Archaeology Geology etc., a site the features of which are used to define, or are paradigmatic of, a culture, stratigraphic level, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > geology > [noun] > type area type area1916 type locality1934 type site1935 1935 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 1 6 The Late Bronze Age assemblage to which the type site offers no significant parallel. 1959 J. D. Clark Prehist. Southern Afr. vi. 159 Bambata is the type site for the Stillbay Culture in Rhodesia. 1969 Proc. Geol. Soc. Aug. 157 Table 1..gives the sequence of stages so far defined for the Quaternary of the British Isles. The stage names are based either on type-sites or type-areas. 1975 J. G. Evans Environment Early Man Brit. Isles i. 8 Each interglacial is named after a type site or area where deposits of that stage occur. 1981 P. Salway Roman Brit. 7 A ‘type-site’ is, in archaeological jargon, the site after which a culture is named, often the site at which it was first discovered or recognized as distinct. type-slug n. = type-bar n. (a) ( Funk's Stand. Dict., 1895). type-species n. Natural History a species which most perfectly exemplifies its genus; esp. the species on which the genus is based. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > taxonomy > [noun] > archetype, syntype, etc. species1644 type1840 type-genus1840 type-species1840 archetype1849 type-specimen1875 monotype1881 necrotype1883 cotype1893 paratype1893 topotype1893 homotype1896 genotype1897 holotype1897 homoeotype1905 lectotype1905 neotype1905 syntype1909 allotype1910 haplotype1914 1840 W. Whewell Philos. Inductive Sci. I. viii. ii. 476 All the species which have a greater affinity with this type-species than with any others, form the genus. type-specimen n. (a) Natural History a specimen or individual on which the species is based, and from which the specific name is taken; also figurative; (b) a printed sheet or booklet showing the variety of typefaces a printer or founder has available. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > taxonomy > [noun] > archetype, syntype, etc. species1644 type1840 type-genus1840 type-species1840 archetype1849 type-specimen1875 monotype1881 necrotype1883 cotype1893 paratype1893 topotype1893 homotype1896 genotype1897 holotype1897 homoeotype1905 lectotype1905 neotype1905 syntype1909 allotype1910 haplotype1914 society > communication > printing > record and reference books > [noun] > booklet of type faces type-specimen1875 1875 W. Blades Some Early Type Specimen Bks. 3 When printers were their own type-founders their works were their own type-specimen. 1891 Cent. Dict. Type specimen. 1894 Geol. Mag. Oct. 435 J. Sowerby's type-specimens of Ammonites Brocchii are much more inflated than the present species. 1904 G. L. Kittredge Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads p. xxvi ‘The Hangman's Tree’ is a survival of an archaic type-specimen. 1922 D. B. Updike Printing Types I. xi. 133 A few ‘type specimens’ were issued by founders, and some by printers. type-sticker n. a compositor (slang). ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printer > [noun] > compositor compositor1569 composer1634 setter1648 galley slave1683 typo1816 type-sticker1842 typist1843 setter-up1853 case man1855 typesetter1867 comp1870 compositress1885 1842 H. Greeley Corr. R. W. Griswold (1898) 104 Which you will keep out of the dirty hands of all type-stickers. type-system n. a system of teaching by types or representative specimens. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > [noun] > other methods of teaching demonstration1742 bear-leading1766 royal road1793 tachydidaxy1846 object teaching1851 object system1862 methodic1864 community education1873 methodics1883 maieutics1885 type-system1901 direct method1904 spoon-feeding1905 play method1914 playway1914 project method1916 active learning1919 study skills1924 skit1926 free activity1929 hypnopaedia1932 sleep-teaching1932 chalk and talk1937 show-and-tell1941 demo1945 naming of (the) parts1946 team teaching1949 teleteaching1953 programming1954 audio-lingualism1961 immersion1965 dem1968 open learning1970 suggestopaedia1970 suggestopedy1970 distance learning1972 fast-tracking1972 paideia1982 tutorial1984 m-learning2001 1901 Nature 26 Sept. 526/1 Prosecuting a more detailed study of individual forms, as with the now universal type-system. type test n. esp. Aeronautics a test conducted to determine whether a new piece of equipment meets its specifications; also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > [noun] > specific tests or testing > test of materials or equipment > of new equipment against specification type test1922 1922 Flight 14 267/1 The Bristol ‘Lucifer’ engine..has successfully passed its type-tests in accordance with British Air Ministry Type-Test Schedule of May, 1920. 1978 Proc. Internat. Conf. Noise Control Engin., San Francisco 743 Because of the complexity and cost of conducting certification type tests, a study was undertaken to determine the feasibility of using an alternative scheme to obtain approach and takeoff noise levels. 1979 Gloss. Terms Quality Assurance (B.S.I.) 11/2 Type test, a test or series of tests directed towards approval of a design, conducted to determine whether an item is capable of meeting the requirements of the product specification. type-test v. (transitive) . ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > try or test [verb (transitive)] > new machinery or equipment > against specifications type-test1946 1946 Sun (Baltimore) 17 May 6 (advt.) For sale: Stinson cabin monoplanes... Have been type-tested and declared eligible for certification by CAA. type-theory n. Chemistry the theory of the derivation of compounds from types (sense 8c) by substitution. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemistry as a science > chemical theories > [noun] binary theory1863 material theory1863 type-theory1868 Bohr model1923 1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 927 The law of substitution is the expression of facts, which the type-theory was intended to explain. type–token n. attributive in Semiotics, etc., pertaining to types and tokens, involving the relationship of type to tokens (see token n. 1f, sense 8e above). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > unit of meaning > [adjective] > sign > type or token type–token1960 1960 G. Herdan (title) Type-token mathematics: a textbook of mathematical linguistics. 1971 Computers & Humanities 5 133 A type/token ratio is computed for each text, where type is the number of different words occurring in the text and token is the total number of occurrences of all words in the text. 1979 Sci. Amer. Feb. 61/2 The type–token ratio, a parameter that reflects the size of the vocabulary employed by the author, was determined for each text. type-transliteration n. transliteration into modern type or letterpress. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > manner or style of printing > [noun] > transliteration into modern type type-transliteration1896 1896 Periodical No. i. 4 The unique MS...has been reproduced..in photo-facsimile and type-transliteration. type-value n. value as a type or standard of comparison. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > conformity to or with a pattern, etc. > [noun] > a standard or norm > value as a standard type-value1909 1909 R. R. Marett Threshold Relig. Introd. (1914) 25 When..a set of useful contrasts is obtained by means of such bundles, each bundle..is said to have ‘type-value’. Thesaurus » Categories » type-wash n. a washing medium for type or plates (Webster, 1911). type-wheel n. a wheel with raised characters on its periphery, as in the printing telegraph and in some typewriters. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > parts which hold type type-wheel1849 turtle1860 print-wheel1931 print chain1962 print head1968 print train1969 daisy-wheel1977 1849 H. M. Noad Lect. Electr. (ed. 3) viii. 381 The rotatory motion given to the type wheel..until the required letter arrives opposite the paper. 1886 Science 17 Sept. 252/2 Fitted in vertical grooves in the periphery of the type-wheel are a number of steel types. type-work n. letterpress; also type-setting, composing. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > composing > [noun] composing1708 composition1832 typesetting1846 comping1888 type-work1910 1910 H. C. G. Moule in Fundamentals II. vi. 107 The compositor ‘justifies’ a piece of typework, when he corrects, brings into perfect order, as to spaces between words and letters, and so on, the types which he has set up. Derivatives ˈtypeful adj. having the quality of a type; typical; symbolic.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > symbolizing by a type > [adjective] figurative1398 characteristical1591 typic1610 typical1612 characterical?c1622 characteristic1647 umbratile1665 typeful1889 typal1893 1889 Lucia E. F. Kimball in Chicago Advance 16 May How typeful this lovely blossom of the rare, sweet souls who strive..to make the bare, ugly places brighter and better. typefy v. Brit. /ˈtʌɪpᵻfʌɪ/ , U.S. /ˈtaɪpəfaɪ/ (transitive) to put into type, to print.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > [verb (transitive)] imprint1477 impress1508 print1511 stamp1555 press1579 pull1653 to take off1707 to throw off1720 strike1759 typefy1856 1856 J. Strang Glasgow & its Clubs 25 The blatant blusterings of every charlatan..must be pencilled and typefied, before the lapse of a few hours. ˈtypeless adj. untyped, unprinted.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain II. x. 708 Many authors..content to remain..in typeless obscurity. Draft additions 1997 type 1 adj. Pathology designating or pertaining to some forms of diabetes, esp. insulin-dependent diabetes (see insulin-dependent adj. at insulin n. Additions). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > metabolic disorders > [noun] > diabetes > types of insipid diabetes1883 bronzed diabetes1898 haemochromatosis1899 bronze diabetes1901 type 11977 type 21977 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > metabolic disorders > [adjective] > diabetes > types of maturity-onset1959 insulin-dependent1961 non-insulin-dependent1970 juvenile-onset1975 type 11977 type 21977 1977 Lancet 19 Mar. 638/1 Type I includes classic insulin-dependent juvenile-onset diabetes, insulin-dependent diabetes presenting in later life, and diabetes initially adequately controlled..but with islet-cell antibody (I.C.A.) in the serum. 1986 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 22 May 1366/1 So I believe there is something unique about Type I diabetes. Maybe it is more akin to polymyalgia rheumatica, which responds to some safe therapies that we have now. Draft additions 1997 type 2 adj. Pathology designating or pertaining to some forms of diabetes, esp. the non-insulin-dependent type (see non-insulin-dependent adj. at non- prefix 3b). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > metabolic disorders > [noun] > diabetes > types of insipid diabetes1883 bronzed diabetes1898 haemochromatosis1899 bronze diabetes1901 type 11977 type 21977 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > metabolic disorders > [adjective] > diabetes > types of maturity-onset1959 insulin-dependent1961 non-insulin-dependent1970 juvenile-onset1975 type 11977 type 21977 1977 Lancet 13 Aug. 325/2 Although juvenile-onset diabetes is predominantly type I and adult-onset diabetes is predominantly type II, the inaccuracies inherent in this oversimplification must have vitiated earlier attempts at genetic analysis. 1987 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 2) I. ix. 53/2 It is probably preferable to use the type I, type II scheme, in that considerable confusion arises from the term ‘insulin-dependent’, which is often equated in practice with insulin-treated, which will depend on clinical practice and the state of the patient at a particular time. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022). typev. Brit. /tʌɪp/, U.S. /taɪp/ Etymology: < type n.; compare French typé adjective (Littré), typer (Littré Suppl.). 1. transitive. a. Theology. To prefigure or foreshadow as a type; to represent in prophetic similitude. Also type forth, out. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prefiguration > prefigure [verb (transitive)] forecomea1300 to say beforec1384 signifyc1384 pretendc1425 prefigurec1429 preostendc1429 prefigurate1530 prefigurate1530 adumbrate1537 promise1556 premonstrate1562 foresignify1565 presignify1570 shadow1574 foreshadow1577 presage1583 fore-run1590 presign1590 fore-read1591 figure1595 type forth, out1596 fore-point1601 foreshow1601 prophesy1608 foretella1616 foretypea1618 forebode1656 harbingera1657 pretypify1658 pretype1659 forespeak1667 to figure out1721 forecast1883 favour1887 precourse1888 precursea1892 society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Old Testament > [verb (transitive)] > prefigure type forth, out1596 1596 H. Clapham Briefe of Bible i. 58 That specially typed out Our spotles Priest Iesus. 1606 J. Carpenter Schelomonocham xxvii. f. 111 Wee see how he typeth the holy Messiah. 1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 268 Which same thing is also typed forth unto us by Sinai, and Jerusalem. 1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 66 Adam..offer'd sacrifice which typed out Christ. 1827 R. Pollok Course of Time I. v. 240 A time Typed by the Sabbath day..when all had rest and peace. b. To be the type or symbol of; to represent by a type or symbol; to symbolize: = typify v. 1. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > symbolizing by a type > be type of [verb (transitive)] betokenc1175 bysenc1325 bodea1387 resemblea1393 figure1401 figurate?1548 moralize1597 typify1635 type1831 1831 T. Campbell in Metropolitan July 220 The Rainbow types Heaven's promise to my sight. 1836 E. Howard Rattlin xxxii The old man's look..was so wretched,..yet so fond—and was typed to my fancy so strongly by his little boat [etc.]. 1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 106 All nature typeth Thee and Thine. 1875 Ld. Tennyson Queen Mary iii. iv. 149 The cataract typed the headlong plunge and fall Of heresy to the pit. 2. a. To be an example or specimen of; to exemplify: = typify v. 2. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > find or furnish an instance or example of [verb (transitive)] > be an example or specimen of paragonize1592 paragon1617 type1627 represent1838 typify1854 1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. (1629) 263 Pauls maine intention in typing or lineing out in his owne practise, what he prescribed to others. 1866 J. S. Blackie Homer & Iliad I. 25 The peculiar character..of Scottish piety, as it has been typed in Scotland now for more than three hundred years. b. To be or furnish the pattern or model for. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > prototype > [verb (transitive)] > set an example to ensamplec1380 exemplifyc1425 pattern1594 sample1600 type1836 model1961 1836 E. Bulwer-Lytton Athens (1837) II. 55 On the Shield He bears his haughty ensign—typed by stars Gleaming athwart the sky. 3. To reproduce by means of type; to print. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > [verb (intransitive)] pull1653 type1841 1736 [implied in: J. Byrom Jrnl. 26 Dec. in Private Jrnl. & Lit. Remains (1856) II. i. 82 Dr. Mainwaring brought me a piece of Torlock's typing. (at typing n.)]. 1841 E. Miall in Nonconformist 1 13 A host of abstractions typed off with capital letters. 4. a. To write or copy by means of a typewriter; also with out, up. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > typing > type [verb (transitive)] to peck outa1382 pound1865 write1874 typewrite1887 type1888 tickle1926 to tap out1952 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Oct. 15/1 Shorthand Evidence ‘typed’ from Dictation. 1900 E. Wallace Writ in Barracks 114 'Tis the dainty hand that types it. 1948 A. N. Keith Three came Home xv. 255 The news that came over the radio was typed out. 1961 ‘E. Lathen’ Banking on Death xvii. 135 I want you to..type up a copy of the Hoffman contract. 1981 C. Dexter Dead of Jericho xxxvi. 202 We've got to..get it down in writing, then typed up, and signed. b. intransitive. To practise typewriting; to typewrite. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > typing > type [verb (intransitive)] write1874 typewrite1887 type1888 1888 Sc. Leader 28 Aug. 3 The operator..types at the rate of from fifty to sixty words a minute. 1897 G. Allen Type-writer Girl xvi I went back to my machine and began typing mechanically. 5. a. transitive. To assign to a particular type; to classify; esp. in Biology and Medicine, to determine the type to which (blood, tissue, etc.) belongs. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > taxonomy > [verb (transitive)] > type type1900 phage-type1938 1900 [implied in: W. Myers tr. P. Ehrlich & A. Lazarus Histol. Blood 32 The simple ‘typing’ of several hundred cells. (at typing n.)]. 1929 L. H. Snyder Blood Grouping iii. 13 They called attention to the fact that the methods used for typing an unknown blood are based upon the assumption that there are only four iso-agglutination groups and that the blood of every person belongs to one of the four. 1939 Jrnl. Bacteriol. 37 136 Sixty-seven of the double-zone strains have been serologically ‘typed’ by Lancefield or Plummer. 1946 Gerth & Mills From Max Weber (1947) iii. 56 Less ‘rational’ actions are typed by Weber in terms of the pursuit of ‘absolute ends’, as flowing from affectual sentiments, or as ‘traditional’. 1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Apr. 194/4 The simple character, long ago ‘typed’ and pigeon-holed, often turns out to be much more complex in the light of his correspondence. 1964 McCall's Sewing in Colour iii. 41/1 Zippers are typed according to their purpose. 1967 A. S. Byatt Game xi. 154 Her clothes..typed her: grey pleated skirt, cable-stitch sweater, brogue shoes. 1968 Times 7 Nov. 3/2 In a year or two it might be possible to store human hearts for a period of hours; this would enable donors and recipients to be tissue-typed on an international basis. 1969 New Yorker 12 Apr. 85/1 The exobiologists have insisted that..the astronauts' microflora..have all been typed and catalogued for comparison later. 1977 Time (Europe ed.) 7 Mar. 43/2 The kidney was..then ‘typed’ so that doctors could choose a patient whose body tissue matched it. 1977 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 125 87/1 We like to label periods in our history as we like to ‘type’ people. b. = type-cast v. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > stage [verb (transitive)] > cast cast1711 undercast1827 recast1923 type1933 type-cast1946 1933 Sat. Evening Post 17 June 14/3 The danger of being ‘typed’ by the producers, which, in turn, fixes you irrevocably in the public eye, is one of those haunting fears that an actor must meet and conquer. 1939 J. Gielgud Early Stages ix. 151 Refusing to be typed in ‘silly society’ parts, she [sc. Edith Evans]..achieved her greatest triumph as Millamant. 1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Feb. 118/1 There is an inevitable tendency in novels about soldiers and sailors for characters to be typed; but though some of Mr. Armstrong's ship's company conform, others are distinct individuals. 1959 Listener 9 July 72/1 This was good documentary in that the characters were not in the least typed. 1960 Guardian 20 Oct. 8/7 They were in revolt against the whole Broadway system of typing actors and thus limiting their development. Derivatives ˈtyping adj. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > typing > [adjective] typewriting1867 typing1897 1897 Daily News 21 Sept. 7/2 To transform..the secretaries into shorthand and typing clerks. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see also also refers to : † tipetypen.¹ also refers to : -typesuffix < n.?a1500v.1596 see also
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