type – English noun declension

English noun forms of type

Noun: type
Singulartype
Pluraltypes

Sample Sentences

  • This type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane.
  • Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade. [2012 March 26, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 128:]
  • Look, with these gals that want to buy it, most of them are older, dignified. Social Register types, you know what I mean? They can't be trotting down to Times Square to pick out the merchandise. They got to have some kind of, uh, middleman. [1969, Waldo Salt, Midnight Cowboy, spoken by Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman), United Artists:]
  • "I just peeked out toward the restaurant and there are a lot of Navy types in there. I'd hate for you to get in trouble on your last night in Europe." [2002, Pat Conroy, The Great Santini, page 4:]
  • Altogether he was the type of low ruffianism — as ill-conditioned a looking brute as ever ginned a hare. [1872, Mary Rose Godfrey, Loyal, volume 3, page 116:]
  • The headline was set in bold type.
  • ...thus Stearn has designated Linnaeus as the type specimen of Homo sapiens [2009 March 20, Greg Mayer, “Who is the type specimen of Homo sapiens?”, in Why Evolution Is True:]
  • Musca domestica is the type-species of Musca, a genus originally created by Linnaeus for a variety of higher Diptera, many of which are now known to be in other families. [2015 December 16, “What's in a fly?”, in Natural History Museum:]
  • We can't get along: he's just not my type.
  • He was exactly her type.
  • The fundamental types used to express the simplest and most essential chemical relations are hydrochloric acid, water, ammonia, and methane.
  • Logics of the second and higher orders may be regarded as type-theoretic systems. [2011, V.N. Grishin (originator), "Types, theory of", in Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Types,_theory_of&oldid=14150]
  • Categorial grammar is like a combination of context-free grammar and types.

Etymology

From Middle English type (“symbol, figure, emblem”), from Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from τύπτω (túptō, “to strike, beat”). See: Middle English Nouns 'type', Latin Nouns 'typus', Ancient Greek Nouns 'τύπος'.