Type

Russian Meaning

English Meaning

1. A number of people or things having in common traits or characteristics that distinguish them as a group or class.
2. The general character or structure held in common by a number of people or things considered as a group or class.
3. A person or thing having the features of a group or class.
4. An example or a model having the ideal features of a group or class; an embodiment: "He was the perfect type of a military dandy” ( Joyce Cary).
5. A person regarded as exemplifying a particular profession, rank, or social group: a group of executive types; a restaurant frequented by tourist types.
6. A figure, representation, or symbol of something to come, such as an event in the Old Testament that foreshadows another in the New Testament.
7. A taxonomic group, especially a genus or species, chosen as the representative example in characterizing the larger taxonomic group to which it belongs.
8. See holotype.
9. Printing A small block of metal or wood bearing a raised letter or character on the upper end that leaves a printed impression when inked and pressed on paper.
10. Printing Such pieces considered as a group.
11. Printing Printed or typewritten characters; print.
12. Printing A size or style of printed or typewritten characters; a typeface: a sans-serif type.
13. A pattern, a design, or an image impressed or stamped onto the face of a coin.
14. To write (something) with a typewriter; typewrite.
15. To determine the antigenic characteristics of (a blood or tissue sample).
16. To typecast.
17. To represent or typify.
18. To prefigure.
19. To write with a typewriter; typewrite.