Noun

(en noun)

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= 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.}}

An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.

* 2002 , Pat Conroy, The Great Santini , page 4:

"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."

An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.

* 1872 , Mary Rose Godfrey, Loyal , volume 3, page 116:

Altogether he was the type of low ruffianism — as ill-conditioned a looking brute as ever ginned a hare.

(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.

The headline was set in bold type .

(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.

The fundamental types used to express the simplest and most essential chemical relations are hydrochloric acid, water, ammonia, and methane.

(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

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 .

Noun

(species)

A type or kind of thing.

* (Richard Holt Hutton) (1826-1897)

What is called spiritualism should, I think, be called a mental species of materialism.

# A group of plants or animals having similar appearance.

#* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01

, author=Donald Worster, volume=100, issue=1, page=70, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= A Drier and Hotter Future , passage=Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.}}

# A rank in the classification of organisms, below genus and above subspecies; a taxon at that rank.

#* 1859 , (Charles Darwin), (On the Origin of Species) :

Hence, in determining whether a form should be ranked as a species or a variety, the opinion of naturalists having sound judgment and wide experience seems the only guide to follow.

#*

Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.

#* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan

, title= Wild Plants to the Rescue , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.

# (label) A mineral with a unique chemical formula whose crystals belong to a unique crystallographic system.

An image, an appearance, a spectacle.

# (label) The image of something cast on a surface, or reflected from a surface, or refracted through a lens or telescope; a reflection.

# Visible or perceptible presentation; appearance; something perceived.

#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

Wit,the faculty of imagination in the writer, which searches over all the memory for the species or ideas of those things which it designs to represent.

#* (Isaac Newton) (1642-1727)

the species of the letters illuminated with indigo and violet

# A public spectacle or exhibition.

(Francis Bacon)

(label) Either of the two elements of the Eucharist after they have been consecrated, so named because they retain the image of the bread and wine before their transubstantiation into the body and blood of Christ.

Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.

* (John Arbuthnot) (1667-1735)

There was, in the splendour of the Roman empire, a less quantity of current species in Europe than there is now.

A component part of compound medicine; a simple.

An officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; especially, one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture.