A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class. • An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc. • An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment. • A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block. • Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size. • Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics. • Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical. • Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to. • A blood group. • A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token. • An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times. • A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations. • The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; especially, the design on the face of a medal or a coin. • A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived. • A part of the partition of the object domain of a logical theory (which due to the existence of such partition, would be called a typed theory). (Note: this corresponds to the notion of "data type" in computing theory.) • A symbol, emblem, or example of something.