Type vs. Trait

Typenoun

A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.

‘This type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane.’;

Traitnoun

an identifying characteristic, habit or trend

‘The number one personality trait I hate is hypocrisy. Why can't you be consistent!?’;

Typenoun

An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.

Traitnoun

(object-oriented) An uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface.

‘Traits are somewhat between an interface and a mixin, as an interface contains only method signatures, while a trait includes also the full method definitions. On the other hand, mixins include method definitions, but they can also carry state through attributes, while traits usually don't.’;

Typenoun

An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.

Traitnoun

A stroke; a touch.

‘By this single trait Homer makes an essential difference between the Iliad and Odyssey.’;

Typenoun

A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.

Traitnoun

A distinguishing or marked feature; a peculiarity; as, a trait of character.

Typenoun

(uncountable) Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.

Traitnoun

a distinguishing feature of your personal nature

Typenoun

Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.

‘The headline was set in bold type.’;

Traitnoun

a distinguishing quality or characteristic, typically one belonging to a person

‘the traditionally British trait of self-denigration’;

Typenoun

(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.

‘the type of a genus, family, etc.’;

Traitnoun

a genetically determined characteristic

‘breeders were installing some trait that allowed the crop to thrive’;

Typenoun

Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.

‘We can't get along: he's just not my type.’; ‘He was exactly her type.’;

Typenoun

(medicine) A blood group.

Typenoun

(theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.

Typenoun

(computing theory) A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.

Typenoun

(fine arts) 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.

Typenoun

(chemistry) 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.

‘The fundamental types used to express the simplest and most essential chemical relations are hydrochloric acid, water, ammonia, and methane.’;

Typenoun

(mathematics) 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.)

‘Categorial grammar is like a combination of context-free grammar and types.’;

Typeverb

To put text on paper using a typewriter.

Typeverb

To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.

Typeverb

To determine the blood type of.

‘The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion.’;

Typeverb

To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.

Typeverb

To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.

Typeverb

To categorize into types.

Typenoun

The mark or impression of something; stamp; impressed sign; emblem.

‘The faith they have in tennis, and tall stockings,Short blistered breeches, and those types of travel.’;

Typenoun

Form or character impressed; style; semblance.

‘Thy father bears the type of king of Naples.’;

Typenoun

A figure or representation of something to come; a token; a sign; a symbol; - correlative to antitype.

‘A type is no longer a type when the thing typified comes to be actually exhibited.’;

Typenoun

That which possesses or exemplifies characteristic qualities; the representative.

‘Since the time of Cuvier and Baer . . . the whole animal kingdom has been universally held to be divisible into a small number of main divisions or types.’;

Typenoun

The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; esp., the design on the face of a medal or a coin.

Typenoun

A raised letter, figure, accent, or other character, cast in metal or cut in wood, used in printing.

Typenoun

A simple compound, used as a model or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.

Typeverb

To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.

Typeverb

To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.

‘Let us type them now in our own lives.’;

Typenoun

a subdivision of a particular kind of thing;

‘what type of sculpture do you prefer?’;

Typenoun

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’;

Typenoun

(biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon

Typenoun

printed characters;

‘small type is hard to read’;

Typenoun

a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end; produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper;

‘he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up’;

Typenoun

all of the tokens of the same symbol;

‘the word `element' contains five different types of character’;

Typeverb

write by means of a keyboard with types;

‘type the acceptance letter, please’;

Typeverb

identify as belonging to a certain type;

‘Such people can practically be typed’;

Typenoun

a category of people or things having common characteristics

‘blood types’; ‘this type of heather grows better in a drier habitat’;

Typenoun

a person of a specified character or nature

‘two sporty types in tracksuits’;

Typenoun

the sort of person one likes or finds attractive

‘she's not really my type’;

Typenoun

a person or thing exemplifying the ideal or defining characteristics of something

‘she characterized his witty sayings as the type of modern wisdom’;

Typenoun

an object, conception, or work of art serving as a model for subsequent artists.

Typenoun

a symbol of someone or something

‘the dolphin is a conventional type of Christ’;

Typenoun

a person or event in the Old Testament taken as a foreshadowing of someone or something in the New Testament.

Typenoun

an organism or taxon chosen as having the essential characteristics of its group.

Typenoun

short for type specimen

Typenoun

characters or letters that are printed or shown on a screen

‘bold type’;

Typenoun

a piece of metal with a raised letter or character on its upper surface, for use in letterpress printing.

Typenoun

metal types used in letterpress printing

‘the first European printing of books began in 1454 with the invention of movable type’;

Typenoun

a design on either side of a medal or coin.

Typenoun

an abstract category or class of linguistic item or unit, as distinct from actual occurrences in speech or writing.

Typeverb

write (something) on a typewriter or computer by pressing the keys

‘he typed out the second draft’; ‘I'm learning to type’;

Typeverb

determine the type to which (a person or their blood or tissue) belongs

‘the kidney was typed’;