Noun

(en noun)

A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.

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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

(en noun)

Something serving as an expression of something else; sign, symbol

According to the Bible, the rainbow is a token of God's covenant with Noah.

A keepsake, momento, souvenir

Please accept this bustier as a token of our time together.

A piece of stamped metal used as a substitute for money; a voucher that can be exchanged for goods or services

Subway tokens are being replaced by magnetic cards.

A book token is the easiest option for a Christmas gift.

(obsolete, sometimes, figurative) Evidence, proof; a confirming detail; physical trace, mark, footprint.

* Shakespeare

Say, by this token , I desire his company.

Support for a belief; grounds for an opinion; reason, reasoning, witcraft (see usage)

An extraordinary event serving as evidence of supernatural power, a miracle

An object or disclosure to attest or authenticate the bearer or an instruction; a password

A seal guaranteeing the quality of an item.

Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith.

* (rfdate) (Shakespeare)

Say, by this token , I desire his company.

A tally

(philosophy) A particular thing to which a concept applies.

(computing) An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing. Also called a symbol.

* 2004 , Randall Hyde, Write Great Code: Understanding the Machine , page 68

For each lexeme, the scanner creates a small data package known as a token and passes this data package on to the parser.

(computing) A conceptual object that can be possessed by a computer, process, etc. in order to regulate a turn-taking system such as a token ring network.

(grammar) A lexeme; a basic, grammatically indivisible unit of a language such as a keyword, operator or identifier.

(medical) A characteristic sign of a disease or of a bodily disorder, a symptom; a sign of a bodily condition, recovery, or health.

(medical, obsolete) A livid spot upon the body, indicating, or supposed to indicate, the approach of death.

* (rfdate)'' (Beaumont and Fletcher)

Like the fearful tokens of the plague, Are mere forerunners of their ends.

(printing) Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.

(mining) A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sends one of these with each corf or tub he has hewn.

(mining) A thin bed of coal indicating the existence of a thicker seam at no great distance.

(rail transport) A physical object used for exchange between drivers and signalmen on single track lines.

(weaving) In a loom, a colored signal to show the weaver which shuttle to use.

(Church of Scotland) A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.