type

• alphabetize
• array
• assort
• bracket
• branch
• break down
• breed
• bunch
• catalog
• catalogue
• categorize
• category
• class
• classification
• classify
• clump
• cluster
• codify
• colligate
• compartment
• compartmentalize
• cull
• description
• digest
• dispose
• distinguish
• distribute
• division
• draw up
• family
• feather
• file
• generation
• genre
• genus
• grade
• group
• grouping
• heading
• identify
• ilk
• index
• kidney
• kind
• label
• league
• like
• list
• lot
• manner
• marshal
• marshall
• model
• nature
• order
• organize
• peg
• persuasion
• pigeonhole
• place
• race
• range
• rank
• recategorize
• reclassify
• recognize
• refer
• regroup
• relegate
• rubric
• sample
• screen
• section
• separate
• set
• shelve
• sieve
• sift
• sort
• speciality
• specialty
• species
• specimen
• strain
• stripe
• subcategorize
• subclass
• subdivision
• subgroup
• subspecies
• suite
• systematize
• tier
• title
• variety
• winnow

• confuse
• disarrange
• jumble
• lump
• misclassify
• missort
• mistype
• scramble

• noun
  1. A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
  2. An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
  3. An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
  4. A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
  5. Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.
  6. Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
  7. A blood group.
  8. (corpus linguistics) A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.
  9. An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
  10. A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.).
• verb
  1. To put text on paper using a typewriter.
  2. To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
  3. To determine the blood type of.
  4. To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
  5. To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
  6. To categorize into types.

• She’s not usually my type, but there’s something special about her.
• What type of music do you enjoy listening to?
• He didn’t know which type of file to download for the software.
• That type of behavior is not acceptable in the classroom.
• I need to type this report before the meeting starts.

ABCs

fabricating

ilk

nature

variety

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