Definition of type

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Type (n.) The mark or impression of something; stamp; impressed sign; emblem.

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Diamond :: Diamond (n.) The smallest kind of type in English printing, except that called brilliant, which is seldom seen..
Platen :: Platen (n.) The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.
Block :: Block (v. t.) A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high.
Anagoge :: Anagoge (n.) The spiritual meaning or application; esp. the application of the types and allegories of the Old Testament to subjects of the New.
Antitypical :: Antitypical (a.) Of or pertaining to an antitype; explaining the type.
Meliaceous :: Meliaceous (a.) Pertaining to a natural order (Meliacae) of plants of which the genus Melia is the type. It includes the mahogany and the Spanish cedar.
Chromatype :: Chromatype (n.) A colored photographic picture taken upon paper made sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium.
Aberrant :: Aberrant (a.) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.
Xenomi :: Xenomi (n. pl.) A suborder of soft-rayed fresh-water fishes of which the blackfish of Alaska (Dallia pectoralis) is the type.
Pi :: Pi (n.) A mass of type confusedly mixed or unsorted.
Monotype :: Monotype (a.) Alt. of Monotypi.
Printing :: Printing (n.) The act, art, or practice of impressing letters, characters, or figures on paper, cloth, or other material; the business of a printer, including typesetting and presswork, with their adjuncts; typography; also, the act of producing photographic prints..
Archetype :: Archetype (n.) The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype..
Lean :: Lean (v. i.) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to fat; as, lean copy, matter, or type..
Melotype :: Melotype (n.) A picture produced by a process in which development after exposure may be deferred indefinitely, so as to permit transportation of exposed plates; also, the process itself..
Stereotypography :: Stereotypographer (n.) A stereotype printer.
Olefine :: Olefine (n.) Olefiant gas, or ethylene; hence, by extension, any one of the series of unsaturated hydrocarbons of which ethylene is a type. See Ethylene..
Drive :: Drive (n.) In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift..
Nick :: Nick (n.) A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution..
Type :: Type (n.) A raised letter, figure, accent, or other character, cast in metal or cut in wood, used in printing..
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