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[the same pronunciation]

“Type” (noun) is ‘a class or person or group of people or things that have or share the same or almost the same, or a particular, feature or quality, or having the same habits or ideas, and are part of a larger group (= kind of); a person who has or seems to have a particular character’,

e.g.

His sister is a fussy type; you won’t like to make friends with her.

What type of food does she like … hot and spicy or bland?

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“Type”, as a verb, is ‘to write something using a typewriter or computer; (medical & technical) to find out the group of class that a person or animal or thing belongs’; as a noun, it is ‘the letters that are written using a typewriter or computer; the small metal blocks with the letters of alphabet, numbers and symbols on them used in printing press’,

typing on a computer keyboard

e.g.

Before the computers, it was the typewriter that people used to type their letters.

Could you type in the data into this file for me?

Type or print your name and address in this space.

an old model typewriter

[A ‘typewriter’ is a machine that is used for typing letters or messages, and a ‘typist’ is a person who does the typing.]

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