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say it: tahyp
type is a noun and verb meaning "a subdivision of a particular kind of thing". It is pronounced /ˈtaɪp/ — tahyp. It carries 8 recorded senses.
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”
(biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon
biology
all of the tokens of the same symbol
“the word `element' contains five different types of character”
write by means of a keyboard with types
“type the acceptance letter, please”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for type come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.