What does type mean?
Type means A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class..
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/taɪp/ · noun
A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class..
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.
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.
"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."
Altogether he was the type of low ruffianism — as ill-conditioned a looking brute as ever ginned a hare.
...thus Stearn has designated Linnaeus as the type specimen of Homo sapiens
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.
We can't get along: he's just not my type.
Use type when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Type means A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class..
Common synonyms include category, class, genre, group.
Possible antonyms include antitype.
This type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane.
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