Definition of type

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Type (n.) A raised letter, figure, accent, or other character, cast in metal or cut in wood, used in printing..

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Copy :: Copy (n.) Manuscript or printed matter to be set up in type; as, the printers are calling for more copy..
Representative :: Representative (n.) That which presents the full character of the type of a group.
Frame :: Frame (n.) A stand to support the type cases for use by the compositor.
Rubidine :: Rubidine (n.) A nitrogenous base homologous with pyridine, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H17N; also, any one of the group od metameric compounds of which rubidine is the type..
Archetype :: Archetype (n.) The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype..
Violaceous :: Violaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants, of which the violet is the type. It contains about twenty genera and two hundred and fifty species..
Electrotype :: Electrotype (v. t.) To make facsimile plates of by the electrotype process; as, to electrotype a page of type, a book, etc. See Electrotype, n..
Pretypify :: Pretypify (v. t.) To prefigure; to exhibit previously in a type.
Atypical :: Atypical (a.) That has no type; devoid of typical character; irregular; unlike the type.
Olefine :: Olefine (n.) Olefiant gas, or ethylene; hence, by extension, any one of the series of unsaturated hydrocarbons of which ethylene is a type. See Ethylene..
Text :: Text (n.) A style of writing in large characters; text-hand also, a kind of type used in printing; as, German text..
Type :: Type (n.) Such letters or characters, in general, or the whole quantity of them used in printing, spoken of collectively; any number or mass of such letters or characters, however disposed..
Type :: Type (n.) A general form or structure common to a number of individuals; hence, the ideal representation of a species, genus, or other group, combining the essential characteristics; an animal or plant possessing or exemplifying the essential characteristics of a species, genus, or other group. Also, a group or division of animals having a certain typical or characteristic structure of body maintained within the group..
Sturk :: Sturionian (n.) One of the family of fishes of which the sturgeon is the type.
Pinacolin :: Pinacolin (n.) A colorless oily liquid related to the ketones, and obtained by the decomposition of pinacone; hence, by extension, any one of the series of which pinacolin proper is the type..
Dele :: Dele (imperative sing.) Erase; remove; -- a direction to cancel something which has been put in type; usually expressed by a peculiar form of d, thus: /..
Ambrotype :: Ambrotype (n.) A picture taken on a plate of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass..
Kern :: Kern (n.) A part of the face of a type which projects beyond the body, or shank..
Melainotype :: Melainotype (n.) See Melanotype.
Glyptodont :: Glyptodont (n.) One of a family (Glyptodontidae) of extinct South American edentates, of which Glyptodon is the type. About twenty species are known..
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