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TYPE, n. [L. typus; Gr. from the root of tap; to beat, strike, impress.]

1. The mark of something; an emblem; that which represents something else.

Thy emblem, gracious queen, the British rose,

Type of sweet rule and gentle majesty.

2. A sign; a symbol; a figure of something to come; as, Abraham's sacrifice and the paschal lamb, were types of Christ. To this word is opposed antitype. Christ, in this case, is the antitype.

3. A model or form of a letter in metal or other hard material; used in printing.

4. In medicine, the form or character of a disease, in regard to the intension and remission of fevers, pulses, &c.; the regular progress of a fever.

5. In natural history, a general form, such as is common to the species of a genus, or the individuals of a species.

6. A stamp or mark.

TYPE, v.t. To prefigure; to represent by a model or symbol beforehand. [Little used.]



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TYPE, n. [L. typus; Gr. from the root of tap; to beat, strike, impress.]

1. The mark of something; an emblem; that which represents something else.

Thy emblem, gracious queen, the British rose,

Type of sweet rule and gentle majesty.

2. A sign; a symbol; a figure of something to come; as, Abraham's sacrifice and the paschal lamb, were types of Christ. To this word is opposed antitype. Christ, in this case, is the antitype.

3. A model or form of a letter in metal or other hard material; used in printing.

4. In medicine, the form or character of a disease, in regard to the intension and remission of fevers, pulses, &c.; the regular progress of a fever.

5. In natural history, a general form, such as is common to the species of a genus, or the individuals of a species.

6. A stamp or mark.

TYPE, v.t. To prefigure; to represent by a model or symbol beforehand. [Little used.]


TYPE, n. [Fr. type; L. typus; Gr. τυπος, from the root of tap, Gr. τυπτω, to beat, strike, impress.]

  1. The mark of something; an emblem; that which represents something else. Thy emblem, gracious queen, the British rose, / Type of sweet rule and gentle majesty. Prior.
  2. A sign; a symbol; figure of something to come; as, Abraham's sacrifice and the paschal lamb, were types of Christ. To this word is opposed antitype. Christ, in this case, is the antitype.
  3. A model or form of a letter in metal, or other hard material; used in printing.
  4. In medicine, some peculiarity in the form of a disease.
  5. In natural history, a general form, such as is common to the species of a genus, or the individuals of a species.
  6. A stamp or mark. Shak.

TYPE, v.t.

To prefigure; to represent by a model or symbol beforehand. [Little used.] White.


-type
  1. A combining form signifying impressed form; stamp; print; type; typical form; representative; as in stereotype phototype, ferrotype, monotype.
  2. The mark or impression of something; stamp; impressed sign; emblem.

    The faith they have in tennis, and tall stockings,
    Short blistered breeches, and those types of travel.     Shak.

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

    [R.] White (Johnson).
  4. Form or character impressed; style; semblance.

    Thy father bears the type of king of Naples. Shak.

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

    [R.]

    Let us type them now in our own lives. Tennyson.

  6. A figure or representation of something to come; a token; a sign; a symbol; -- correlative to antitype.

    A type is no longer a type when the thing typified comes to be actually exhibited. South.

  7. That which possesses or exemplifies characteristic qualities; the representative.

    Specifically: (a) (Biol.)
  8. A raised letter, figure, accent, or other character, cast in metal or cut in wood, used in printing.

    (b)
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Type

TYPE, noun [Latin typus; Gr. from the root of tap; to beat, strike, impress.]

1. The mark of something; an emblem; that which represents something else.

Thy emblem, gracious queen, the British rose,

TYPE of sweet rule and gentle majesty.

2. A sign; a symbol; a figure of something to come; as, Abraham's sacrifice and the paschal lamb, were types of Christ. To this word is opposed antitype. Christ, in this case, is the antitype.

3. A model or form of a letter in metal or other hard material; used in printing.

4. In medicine, the form or character of a disease, in regard to the intension and remission of fevers, pulses, etc.; the regular progress of a fever.

5. In natural history, a general form, such as is common to the species of a genus, or the individuals of a species.

6. A stamp or mark.

TYPE, verb transitive To prefigure; to represent by a model or symbol beforehand. [Little used.]

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1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

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He believes himself a man of importance.

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