type

1. type (noun) — sense 1

Definition: A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.

Example: This type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane.

2. type (noun) — sense 2

Definition: An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.

Example: 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.

3. type (noun) — sense 3

Definition: An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.

Example: Altogether he was the type of low ruffianism — as ill-conditioned a looking brute as ever ginned a hare.

4. type (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To put text on paper using a typewriter.

5. type (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.

6. type (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To determine the blood type of.

Example: The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion.

7. type (adv) — sense 7

Definition: Very, extremely.

Example: I don't think Brooklyn slang is that different from Manhattan slang. But I'm not used to a lot of the slang my friends use. Months ago, I first heard, "There are mad heads here." I was like, "Where did that come from?" For a while they were saying, "That's type funny." I was like: "What? What do you mean by that?" It means "very funny." Or they were like, "That's dumb stupid." I'm like, "That's redundant."