type

Multiple Entries:
  type    -type  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
type/tʌɪp/

▶noun

• 1 a category of people or things having common characteristics.

  ■ informal a person of a specified character or nature: two sporty types in tracksuits.

  ■ Linguistics an abstract category or class of linguistic item or unit.

  Contrasted with token.

• 2 a person or thing symbolizing or exemplifying the defining characteristics of something.

• 3 printed characters or letters.

  ■ a piece of metal with a raised letter or character on its upper surface, for use in letterpress printing.

  ■ such pieces collectively.

• 4 a design on either side of a medal or coin.

• 5 Theology a foreshadowing in the Old Testament of a person or event of the Christian dispensation.

▶verb

• 1 write using a typewriter or computer.

• 2 Medicine determine the type to which (a person or their blood or tissue) belongs.

– phrases
in type composed and ready for printing.

– derivatives
typal adjective,
typing noun.

– origin C15: from Fr., or from L. typus, from Gk tupos ‘impression, figure, type’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-type/tʌɪp/

▶suffix (forming adjectives) that is a certain type: a champagne-type fizzy wine.