to type
- verb
- /taɪp/
- How many words did you type on the test?
- sex-typed
- gender-typed
- typed as female
Examples
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" But if you had to type in a full email address? "
Fiction book (1997) -
You pull down the Mail menu, type in your questions, and send it to Smith's mailbox.
Academic text (1995) -
Just let me type, man.
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Type it and send it to the theater.
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And then I'm going to type in something like www.cnn.com.
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I typed in the code, reactivated it, and put it in the back of that guy's van.
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One noted it down in shorthand, typed it up, and left the room.
Fiction book (1994) -
Using the console provided for that purpose, Wendy typed in her name and a sixteen-digit authorization code.
Fiction book (1991) -
You can easily type a name into the search box to find the information you need.
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If you type the word 'apple', you will see a list of related articles.
Synonyms
To describe someone with a single word or short term
To put people or things into groups based on shared features
To put things or people into groups by what they have in common
To treat someone as if a simple, fixed idea about their group is true
Compounds
- Specialized
A blood group whose red cells have no A or B markers, so they can donate to anyone
- Specialized
A category that shows what kind of information a place in a program can hold, for example numbers or text
- Specialized
A long-term condition that makes blood sugar too high, often in adults and treated with diet and pills
- Specialized
A blood group whose red blood cells carry both A and B markers and whose plasma lacks antibodies against them
- Specialized
A long-term condition in which the body makes little or no insulin and people must take insulin injections
- Specialized
Upright letters used for normal printed text in books, not slanted like italics
- Specialized
A set of related fonts like regular, bold, and italic that match each other
- Specialized
An animal or plant kept as the original example for naming a new species
- Specialized
A large bell-shaped oven that heats steel strips to remove hardening and make them softer
- Specialized
A furnace that covers steel strips with a bell-shaped hood to make them softer
- Archaic
Long times when someone cannot move or speak, sometimes followed by short restless periods
- Archaic
A severe mental illness with confused thinking, strange speech, and childish behavior that often starts in the teenage years
- Specialized
A device with a float that rests on collected rain to measure how much falls
- Specialized
A tool that measures rain using a float on the top of the collected water
- Specialized
A semiconductor that conducts electricity mainly with extra electrons from added atoms
- Specialized
A material that conducts electricity mainly by positive holes rather than electrons
Pliers with angled jaws you adjust to grip and turn nuts, bolts, or pipe fittings
- Specialized
A blood group in which red blood cells do not have the Rh factor
- Specialized
A blood group whose red blood cells have the Rh factor, common in most people
- Specialized
A type of schizophrenia where people wrongly believe others will harm them or a partner is cheating while appearing normal
- Specialized
A delayed reaction caused by the body's immune cells that appears hours after contact with something you are sensitive to
- Archaic
A mix of three metals like lead and tin that printers use to make letters for printing
- Specialized
A group of related data types that lets code choose a type based on input
- Specialized
A very fast body reaction to something you are sensitive to, causing hives, itching, or very bad swelling
How Specific
Surface Forms
Etymology
To type someone as a kind of person comes from the idea of a 'type' as a pattern (from Greek typos). So to type a person is to put them into a group because they fit a common pattern.