Definition of type

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Type (n.) Such letters or characters, in general, or the whole quantity of them used in printing, spoken of collectively; any number or mass of such letters or characters, however disposed..

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Sign :: Sign (n.) Any symbol or emblem which prefigures, typifles, or represents, an idea; a type; hence, sometimes, a picture..
Roman :: Roman (a.) Upright; erect; -- said of the letters or kind of type ordinarily used, as distinguished from Italic characters..
Print :: Print (n.) Printed letters; the impression taken from type, as to excellence, form, size, etc.; as, small print; large print; this line is in print..
Stick :: Stick (n.) To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick; as, to stick type..
Frame :: Frame (n.) A stand to support the type cases for use by the compositor.
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..
Rise :: Rise (v.) To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form..
Caprid :: Caprid (a.) Of or pertaining to the tribe of ruminants of which the goat, or genus Capra, is the type..
Araceous :: Araceous (a.) Of or pertaining to an order of plants, of which the genus Arum is the type..
Anomaly :: Anomaly (n.) Any deviation from the essential characteristics of a specific type.
Typography :: Typography (n.) The art of printing with types; the use of types to produce impressions on paper, vellum, etc..
Pinacolin :: Pinacolin (n.) A colorless oily liquid related to the ketones, and obtained by the decomposition of pinacone; hence, by extension, any one of the series of which pinacolin proper is the type..
Display :: Display (v. t.) To make conspicuous by large or prominent type.
Cast :: Cast (v. t.) To stereotype or electrotype.
Diiodide :: Diiodide (n.) A compound of a binary type containing two atoms of iodine; -- called also biniodide.
Brevier :: Brevier (n.) A size of type between bourgeois and minion.
Compose :: Compose (v. t.) To arrange (types) in a composing stick in order for printing; to set (type).
Form :: Form (n.) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase..
Safranine :: Safranine (n.) An orange-red nitrogenous dyestuff produced artificially by oxidizing certain aniline derivatives, and used in dyeing silk and wool; also, any one of the series of which safranine proper is the type..
Variant :: Variant (n.) Something which differs in form from another thing, though really the same; as, a variant from a type in natural history; a variant of a story or a word..
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