Type : nm (word from latin type « figure mystical " and " symbol », original word Greek → -kind).
The word "type" has several meanings in French:
I) Model
1. Figurative element (image) or fact (narration) which is considered as the "imprint", "the reflection" of a concept, in religion, of a concept which is not yet revealed. The Old Testament contains the types of mysteries (figure, symbol).
Philosophy: Ideal model determining the shape of a series of objects; abstract and generic concept considered as such a model (archetype, standard, prototype, stereotype).
2. Set of characteristics (of an object), defined before its manufacture (industrial, in particular) (model, norm, standard).
Object conforms to the regulatory type.
3. Concept expressing the essence of a set of objects or people; set of images corresponding more or less exactly to such a concept (canon, ideal). A certain kind of beauty.
Structure diagram or model.
Use of types (classification, division, typing, typology).
The type, opposed to the individual.
4. Science: Set of characteristics organized as a whole, constituting an instrument of knowledge by "rational abstraction" and making it possible to distinguish categories of objects, individuals, facts (class, species, family, gender, model).
Without determined type (atypical).
Phylogeny: Specimen allowing the description of a taxonomic unit (taxon), of a species.
A species type.
Human types, considered from an ethnic, sexual, aesthetic point of view. She has the Nordic, Slavic type, the characteristics of this type.
Psychological types, of characters (typology, characterology).
Computer science: Characteristic associated with data. The vector type of a list of data.
5. Typical example, person or thing which brings together the main elements of an abstract type, and which can be given as an example (model, personification, representative; also stereotype). Types observed.
Appositions: The typical intellectual.
Typical case. typical objects. Typical budget.
6. Familiar: Someone's type, their physical, aesthetic, preferred type. It's not his type (gender).
7 Anglicism: Encounters of the first type (observation of a UFO), of the second type (evidence of beings from elsewhere), of the third type (contact with these beings).
Figurative: From, of the third type: from a higher level, unknown, unclassifiable.
II) Purpose
1. Technique: Piece bearing an imprint intended to reproduce similar imprints; this imprint (shape, matrix, mould).
Printing type (typography).
Typography: Typeface; set of characters with a determined height, width (body) or design:
Roman type, Elzévir type, Didot type.
2. Numismatics: Figure represented on one or more series of medals (effigy, symbol).
Caesar-like coinage.
III) Character
1. Individual: boy, man, individual; familiar: man, clampin, coco, guy, gus, dude, zebra, zig, zozo.
A tall guy with a mustache.
A funny guy (bird, olibrius).
An amazing guy.
Lover, companion (jules, man). She came with her type.
2. In slang or colloquial meaning: Remarkable character, either because he visibly embodies a type (human, literary), or because he approaches a picturesque type (original).