| type | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. type | a subdivision of a particular kind of thing.; "what type of sculpture do you prefer?" |
| ~ kind, sort, form, variety | a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality.; "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?" |
| ~ breed | a special type.; "Google represents a new breed of entrepreneurs" |
| ~ nature | a particular type of thing.; "problems of this type are very difficult to solve"; "he's interested in trains and things of that nature"; "matters of a personal nature" |
| ~ version, edition, variant, variation | something a little different from others of the same type.; "an experimental version of the night fighter"; "a variant of the same word"; "an emery wheel is the modern variation of a grindstone"; "the boy is a younger edition of his father" |
| n. (person) | 2. case, character, eccentric, type | a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities).; "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case" |
| ~ adult, grownup | a fully developed person from maturity onward. |
| n. (group) | 3. type | (biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon. |
| ~ biological science, biology | the science that studies living organisms. |
| ~ taxon, taxonomic category, taxonomic group | animal or plant group having natural relations. |
| n. (communication) | 4. type | printed characters.; "small type is hard to read" |
| ~ grapheme, graphic symbol, character | a written symbol that is used to represent speech.; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters" |
| ~ type family | a complete set of type suitable for printing text. |
| ~ font, fount, typeface, face, case | a specific size and style of type within a type family. |
| n. (communication) | 5. type | all of the tokens of the same symbol.; "the word `element' contains five different types of character" |
| ~ symbol | an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance. |
| n. (artifact) | 6. type | a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end; produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper.; "he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up" |
| ~ block | a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides).; "the pyramids were built with large stone blocks" |
| ~ kern | the part of a metal typeface that projects beyond its body. |
| ~ quad, space | (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences. |
| v. (communication) | 7. type, typewrite | write by means of a keyboard with types.; "type the acceptance letter, please" |
| ~ write | communicate or express by writing.; "Please write to me every week" |
| ~ shift | use a shift key on a keyboard.; "She could not shift so all her letters are written in lower case" |
| ~ backspace | hit the backspace key on a computer or typewriter keyboard.; "To erase, you must backspace" |
| ~ double-space | type with a full space between lines. |
| ~ triple-space | type with two empty spaces between lines. |
| ~ touch-type | type without looking at the keyboard. |
| v. (cognition) | 8. type, typecast | identify as belonging to a certain type.; "Such people can practically be typed" |
| ~ identify | consider to be equal or the same.; "He identified his brother as one of the fugitives" |
| typewriter | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. typewriter | hand-operated character printer for printing written messages one character at a time. |
| ~ carriage | a machine part that carries something else. |
| ~ character-at-a-time printer, character printer, serial printer | a printer that prints a single character at a time. |
| ~ electric typewriter | a typewriter powered by an electric motor. |
| ~ keyboard | device consisting of a set of keys on a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or computer or the like. |
| ~ portable | a small light typewriter; usually with a case in which it can be carried. |
| ~ typewriter ribbon, ribbon | a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter. |
| ~ stenograph | a machine for typewriting shorthand characters. |
| ~ typewriter carriage | a carriage for carrying a sheet of paper. |
| ~ typewriter keyboard | a keyboard for manually entering characters to be printed. |
| windlass | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. winch, windlass | lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds. |
| ~ capstan | a windlass rotated in a horizontal plane around a vertical axis; used on ships for weighing anchor or raising heavy sails. |
| ~ lifting device | a device for lifting heavy loads. |
| ~ ship | a vessel that carries passengers or freight. |
| ~ yard donkey, yarder | a winch (or system of winches) powered by an engine and used to haul logs from a stump to a landing or to a skid road. |
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