type
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Is type a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (printing, countable) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.uncountable
2. (printing, countable) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.Examples: "The headline was set in bold type."uncountable
3. (taxonomy) Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.Examples: "...thus Stearn has designated Linnaeus as the type specimen of Homo sapiens"; "Musca domestica is the type-species of Musca, a genus originally created by Linnaeus for a variety of higher Diptera, many of which are now known to be in other families."
4. (medicine) A blood group.
5. (corpus linguistics) A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.Synonyms: type-word
6. (theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
adv (English)
1. (African-American Vernacular, slang, rare) Very, extremely.Examples: "I don't think Brooklyn slang is that different from Manhattan slang. But I'm not used to a lot of the slang my friends use. Months ago, I first heard, "There are mad heads here." I was like, "Where did that come from?" For a while they were saying, "That's type funny." I was like: "What? What do you mean by that?" It means "very funny." Or they were like, "That's dumb stupid." I'm like, "That's redundant.""; "Yeah, the fat bitch is type-slow."; "Standing before me was a grown ass woman. She was type thick, with nice size succulent breasts, and a nice plumped ass. Cadence was stacked."Synonyms: mad, hella, wicked, dumb, dummy, odee, barenot-comparablerareslang
Definition source: Wiktionary