Stereotype vs Typecast - What's the difference?
stereotype | typecast |
A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
(printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
(psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
(UML) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language
To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
To print from a stereotype.
(figurative) To make firm or permanent; to fix.
* Duke of Argyll (1887)
To cast an actor in the same kind of role repeatedly.
To identify someone as being of a specific type because of their appearance, colour, religion etc.
(computing, programming) To cast (change of data type of a variable or object).
As verbs the difference between stereotype and typecast
is that stereotype is to make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype while typecast is to cast an actor in the same kind of role repeatedly.As a noun stereotype
is a conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or .stereotype
English
(wikipedia stereotype)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(stereotyp)- to stereotype the Bible
- Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions.
See also
* stereotypic * stereotypical ----typecast
English
Verb
- Typecasting in Java.
- Does anyone know how to typecast a String in Java into an int?