• a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end; produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper; "he dropped a case of Type, so they made him pick them up"
• a subdivision of a particular kind of thing; "what Type of sculpture do you prefer?"
• all of the tokens of the same symbol; "the word `element'' contains five different Types of character"
• printed characters; "small Type is hard to read"
• (biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon
• a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities); "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable Type"; "a mental case"
• identify as belonging to a certain Type; "Such people can practically be Typed"
• write by means of a keyboard with Types; "Type the acceptance letter, please"

'Type' in other languages