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  • Conjugation : past  typed ; ing  tying
  • Derivatives : adj  typable ; adj  typeable
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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary

type [taɪp]
  1. 1. noun [c] (category,example) 种类
  2. 2. noun [c] (sort,kind) 类型
  3. 3. noun [c] [person+]
  4. 4. noun [u] [TYP] 字体
  5. 5. vt.,vi. 打字

Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

type [taɪp]
  1. 1. n.[c] 种类类型
    You need to find the right cream for your skin type.
    你要根据你的皮肤类型找到适合的乳霜
    What type of sculpture do you prefer?
    你更喜欢哪种类型雕塑
  2. 2. n.[c] 某种类型的人
    He's a real romantic type of person.
    他是一个真正浪漫的人。
  3. 3. n.[c] [Biology] 型,类型模式种
    A type is a group whose characteristics are highly defined.
    所谓种类就是高度界定特征群体
  4. 4. n.[c] 印刷文字
    I prefer Calibri to other types of fonts.
    相比其他类型,我更喜欢Calibri字体
    Small type is hard to read.
    小字体不好辨认
  5. 5. n.[c] 成套活字
    There are twenty six different types of characters in the alphabet.
    字母表中的字符有26种不同类型
    The word "element" contains five different types of character.
    单词“element”包含五个不同字母
  6. 6. n.[c] [Printing] 活字铅字
    I could feel the type on the paper with my fingers.
    我用手指可以触摸文件上的铅字
    He dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up.
    他掉了一格字模所以他们叫他拣起来
  7. 7. vt. 键盘输入打字
    Jay finished typing an article without any help from his brother.
    不用哥哥任何帮助杰伊完成了一篇文章打字输入
  8. 8. vt. 归类,按类型划分
    These animals can be typed by their appearance.
    这些动物可按它们的外貌进行归类
    Such people can practically be typed.
    这种人实际上归入一类。

Collins English-English Dictionary

type [taɪp]
  1. 1. n a kind, class, or category, the constituents of which share similar characteristics
  2. 2. n a subdivision of a particular class of things or people; sort
    what type of shampoo do you use?
  3. 3. n the general form, plan, or design distinguishing a particular group
  4. 4. n [Spoken] a person who typifies a particular quality
    he's the administrative type
  5. 5. n [Spoken] a person, esp of a specified kind
    he's a strange type
  6. 6. n a small block of metal or more rarely wood bearing a letter or character in relief for use in printing
  7. 7. n such pieces collectively
  8. 8. n characters printed from type; print
  9. 9. n [Biology] the taxonomic group the characteristics of which are used for defining the next highest group, for example Rattus norvegicus (brown rat) is the type species of the rat genus Rattus
  10. 10. n (as modifier)
    a type genus
    a type species
  11. 11. n See type specimen
  12. 12. n the characteristic device on a coin
  13. 13. n [linguistics] a symbol regarded as standing for the class of all symbols identical to it - Compare token
  14. 14. n [logic] a class of expressions or of the entities they represent that can all enter into the same syntactic relations. The theory of types was advanced by Bertrand Russell to avoid the liar paradox, Russell's paradox, etc
  15. 15. n [Philosophy] a universal. If a sentence always has the same meaning whenever it is used, the meaning is said to be a property of the sentence-type - Compare token
  16. 16. n [chiefly Christian theol] a figure, episode, or symbolic factor resembling some future reality in such a way as to foreshadow or prefigure it
  17. 17. n [rare] a distinctive sign or mark
  18. 18. vb to write (copy) on a typewriter
  19. 19. vt. [tr] to be a symbol of; typify
  20. 20. vt. [tr] to decide the type of; clarify into a type
  21. 21. vt. [tr] [med] to determine the blood group of (a blood sample)
  22. 22. vt. [tr] [chiefly Christian theol] to foreshadow or serve as a symbol of (some future reality)
  23. 23. vt. [Etymology] C15: from Latin typus figure, from Greek tupos image, from tuptein to strike

Examples

It can be designed into a mixed system of withdrawable type and fixed type according to different requirements.
依据不同需要可设计成抽屉式和固定式混合系统。
This type of sticker will adhere to any type of surface.
这种标贴能够粘贴到任何类型的表面上。
Printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters.
排版工人一度将大写字母和小写字母活字置于不同的格盘(case)中;大写字模放在格盘上的上半方,故而又称为“upper-case letter”。
a fundamental type
原始类型
This is italic type.
这是斜体活字。
a made-up page of type
一页排好的铅字
a new type of airplane
新型飞机

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