Type vs Race - What's the difference?
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A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
, author=Lee A. Groat, volume=100, issue=2, page=128, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
* 2002 , Pat Conroy, The Great Santini , page 4:
An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
* 1872 , Mary Rose Godfrey, Loyal , volume 3, page 116:
(printing, countable) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
# (uncountable) Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
# (chiefly, uncountable) Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.
(biology) An individual considered representative of members of its taxonomic group.
Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
(biology) A blood group.
(theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
(computing theory) A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.
(fine arts) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; especially, the design on the face of a medal or a coin.
(chemistry) A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.
(mathematics) A part of the partition of the object domain of a logical theory (which due to the existence of such partition, would be called a typed'' theory). (''Note : this to the notion of "data type" in computing theory.)
* Types, theory of. V.N. Grishin (originator), Encyclopedia of Mathematics . URL: http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Types,_theory_of&oldid=14150
To put text on paper using a typewriter.
To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
To determine the blood type of.
To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
* Tennyson
A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective. Several horses run in a horse race , and the first one to reach the finishing post wins
* 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/sports/new-york-city-marathon-will-not-be-held-sunday.html?hp&_r=0]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):
A progressive movement toward a goal.
A fast-moving current of water, such as that which powers a mill wheel.
Swift progress; rapid course; a running.
* Francis Bacon
Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
* Milton
Travels, runs, or journeys. (rfex)
The bushings of a rolling element bearing which contacts the rolling elements.
To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
To compete against in such a race.
To move or drive at high speed.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=
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, title= Of a motor, to run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.
* 1891 (December) (Arthur Conan Doyle), The Man with the Twisted Lip :
A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common heritage or characteristics:
# A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.
#* 1913', Martin Van Buren Knox, ''The religious life of the Anglo-Saxon '''race
# A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of common physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type.
# (controversial usage) One of the categories from the many subcategorizations of the human species. See Wikipedia's article on .
#* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
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, title=Race Finished
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# A large group of sentient beings distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage .
#* 1898 , Herman Isidore Stern, The gods of our fathers: a study of Saxon mythology , page 15)
(biology) A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; (an informal term for) a subspecies.
A breed or strain of domesticated animal.
* Shakespeare
(figuratively) A category or species of something that has emerged or evolved from an older one (with an implied parallel to animal breeding or evolutionary science).
Peculiar flavour, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavour.
* Shakespeare
* Massinger
Characteristic quality or disposition.
* Shakespeare
* Sir W. Temple
A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.
* 1842 , Gibbons Merle, The Domestic Dictionary and Housekeeper's Manual , page 433:
Type is a related term of race.
As verbs the difference between type and race
is that type is while race is .As adjectives the difference between type and race
is that type is stereotypical while race is distinguished; classy.type
English
Noun
(en noun)Gemstones, passage=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.}}
- "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.
- The headline was set in bold type .
- The fundamental types used to express the simplest and most essential chemical relations are hydrochloric acid, water, ammonia, and methane.
- Logics of the second and higher orders may be regarded as type -theoretic systems.
- Categorial grammar is like a combination of context-free grammar and types .
Synonyms
* (grouping based on shared characteristics) category, class, genre, group, kind, sort, tribe * (computing theory) data type * (printing) sort * See alsoDerived terms
* antitype * archetype * blood type * built-in type * composite type * cotype * ideal type * movable type * normal type * primitive type * structured type * typeface * type-safe * typesetter * typewriter * typography * typology * typology * user-defined typeVerb
(typ)- The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion.
- Let us type them now in our own lives.
Descendants
* Esperanto: (l)Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----race
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) , (etyl) and (etyl) (m).Noun
(racing)- The race around the park was won by Johnny, who ran faster than the others.
- We had a race to see who could finish the book the quickest.
- After days of intensifying pressure from runners, politicians and the general public to call off the New York City Marathon in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, city officials and the event’s organizers decided Friday afternoon to cancel the race .
- The flight of many birds is swifter than the race of any beasts.
- My race' of glory run, and ' race of shame.
Derived terms
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Japan pockets the subsidy …, passage=Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."}}
- "My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built."
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), of uncertain origin. According to philologist Gianfranco Contini,Devoto, Giacomo, Avviamento all'etimologia italiana , Mondadori. the Italian word comes from (etyl) (m) . Some authorities suggest derivation from (etyl) (m), (m), from earlier (m), . This, however, is difficult to support, since Italian (m) predates the Spanish word.Diez, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der romanischen Sprachen, "Razza." Another possible source is (etyl) . A fourth possibility is that the Italian razza'' derives from (etyl) ratio through an unattested intermediate form *''razzo .Noun
(wikipedia race)- Race was a significant issue during apartheid in South Africa.
citation, passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race'. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by ' race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}
- The Native Americans colonized the New World in several waves from Asia, and thus they are considered part of the same Mongoloid race .
- A treaty was concluded between the race''' of elves and the '''race of men.
- There are two distinct races of gods known to Norse mythology[.]
- For do but note a wild and wanton herd, / Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, / Fetching mad bounds.
- The advent of the Internet has brought about a new race of entrepreneur.
- Recent developments in artificial intelligence has brought about a new race of robots that can perform household chores without supervision.
- a race of heaven
- Is it [the wine] of the right race ?
- And now I give my sensual race the rein.
- Some great race of fancy or judgment.
Synonyms
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(Terms derived from the noun "race") * * * * * *Etymology 3
From (etyl), from (etyl) (m).Noun
(en noun)- On the third day after this second boiling, pour all the syrup into a pan, put the races of ginger with it, and boil it up until the syrup adheres to the spoon.