· a subdivision of a particular kind of thing; "what type of sculpture do you prefer?"

Hypernym(s): kind, sort, form, variety

Antonym(s): antitype

· 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"

Synonym(s): character, eccentric, case

Hypernym(s): adult, grownup

· (biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon

Hypernym(s): taxonomic_group, taxonomic_category, taxon

· printed characters; "small type is hard to read"

Hypernym(s): character, graph, grapheme, graphic_symbol

· all of the tokens of the same symbol; "the word `element' contains five different types of character"

Hypernym(s): symbol

· 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"

Hypernym(s): block

· write by means of a keyboard with types; "type the acceptance letter, please"

Synonym(s): typewrite

Hypernym(s): write

· identify as belonging to a certain type; "Such people can practically be typed"

Synonym(s): typecast

Hypernym(s): identify