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type
A	noun
	1	type
			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"
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚artifact; artefact ╚block ╚type ╚quad; space
	2	type
			a subdivision of a particular kind of thing; "what type of sculpture do you prefer?"
		Category Tree: psychological feature ╚cognition; knowledge; noesis ╚content; cognitive content; mental object ╚idea; thought ╚concept; conception; construct ╚category ╚kind; sort; form; variety ╚type ╚version; variant; variation; edition ╚nature
	3	type
			all of the tokens of the same symbol; "the word `element' contains five different types of character"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚social relation ╚communication ╚signal; signaling; sign ╚symbol ╚type
	4	type
			printed characters; "small type is hard to read"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚social relation ╚communication ╚signal; signaling; sign ╚symbol ╚written symbol; printed symbol ╚character; grapheme; graphic symbol ╚type ╚font; fount; typeface; face ╚type family
	5	type
			(biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon
		Category Tree: group; grouping ╚biological group ╚taxonomic group; taxonomic category; taxon ╚type
	6	character, eccentric, type, case
			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"
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚organism; being ╚person; individual; someone; somebody; mortal; human; soul ╚adult; grownup ╚character, eccentric, type, case
B	verb
	1	type, typecast
			identify as belonging to a certain type; "Such people can practically be typed"
		Category Tree: remember; retrieve; recall; call back; call up; recollect; think ╚recognize; recognise ╚identify ╚type, typecast
	2	type, typewrite
			write by means of a keyboard with types; "type the acceptance letter, please"
		Category Tree: act; move ╚interact ╚communicate; intercommunicate ╚write ╚type, typewrite ╚touch-type ╚triple-space ╚double-space ╚backspace ╚shift

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