Definition of type

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Type (n.) A raised letter, figure, accent, or other character, cast in metal or cut in wood, used in printing..

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Prototype :: Prototype (n.) An original or model after which anything is copied; the pattern of anything to be engraved, or otherwise copied, cast, or the like; a primary form; exemplar; archetype..
Melastomaceous :: Melastomaceous (a.) Belonging to the order of which Melastoma is the type.
Letter :: Letter (n.) A single type; type, collectively; a style of type..
Hyalotype :: Hyalotype (n.) A photographic picture copied from the negative on glass; a photographic transparency.
Script :: Script (n.) Type made in imitation of handwriting.
Urethane :: Urethane (n.) A white crystalline substance, NH2.CO.OC2H5, produced by the action of ammonia on ethyl carbonate. It is used somewhat in medicine as a hypnotic. By extension, any one of the series of related substances of which urethane proper is the type..
Face :: Face (n.) The style or cut of a type or font of type.
Typal :: Typal (a.) Relating to a type or types; belonging to types; serving as a type; typical.
Key :: Key (n.) That part of an instrument or machine which serves as the means of operating it; as, a telegraph key; the keys of a pianoforte, or of a typewriter..
Register :: Register (n.) The inner part of the mold in which types are cast.
Compose :: Compose (v. t.) To arrange (types) in a composing stick in order for printing; to set (type).
Calycozoa :: Calycozoa (n. pl.) A group of acalephs of which Lucernaria is the type. The body is cup-shaped with eight marginal lobes bearing clavate tentacles. An aboral sucker serves for attachment. The interior is divided into four large compartments. See Lucernarida.
Anacardiaceous :: Anacardiaceous (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, a family, or order, of plants of which the cashew tree is the type, and the species of sumac are well known examples..
Dele :: Dele (imperative sing.) Erase; remove; -- a direction to cancel something which has been put in type; usually expressed by a peculiar form of d, thus: /..
Woodbury-type :: Woodbury-type (n.) A print from such a plate.
Electrotyper :: Electrotyper (n.) One who electrotypes.
Daguerreotyper :: Daguerreotyper (n.) Alt. of Daguerreotypis.
Saururae :: Saururae (n. pl.) An extinct order of birds having a long vertebrated tail with quills along each side of it. Archaeopteryx is the type. See Archaeopteryx, and Odontornithes..
Labyrinthodon :: Labyrinthodon (n.) A genus of very large fossil amphibians, of the Triassic period, having bony plates on the under side of the body. It is the type of the order Labyrinthodonta. Called also Mastodonsaurus..
Quotation :: Quotation (n.) A piece of hollow type metal, lower than type, and measuring two or more pica ems in length and breadth, used in the blank spaces at the beginning and end of chapters, etc..
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