-type
noun, combining form
type or form
⇒
archetype
printing type or photographic process
⇒
collotype
Origin
from Latin -typus, from Greek -typos, from tupos type-type
1
a suffix representing type, (prototype), especially in names of photographic processes:
ferrotype.
Compare typo-.
Related Words
- albertype
- ambrotype
- aristotype
- biotype
- calotype
- cerotype
-typea word element representing type, as in prototype, especially used of photographic processes, as in ferrotype.
-type
suffix
- (forming adjectives) resembling or having the characteristics of a specified thing[构成形容词] 表示“类型”, “型”, “典型”:
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the dish-type radio telescope
碟型射电望远镜
a champagne-type fizzy wine.
香槟类起泡葡萄酒。
1887 New-type . [ see new a. 10 b]
1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 97/2 Australian... Claret type..Burgundy type.
1922 , etc. . [ see shell-typeadj. s.v. shelln. 40]
1924 Sat. Even. Post 13 Sept. 80 (Advt. ),Has the car you have in mind a European type, high compression motor?
1936 Discovery Aug. 237/2 Eight astronomical-type stainless steel mirrors.
1939 W. S. Churchill in WarIllustr. 29 Dec. 522/2The submarine had not long been in her patrol area before she sighted a big-type U-boat.
1940 Illustr. London News 28 Dec. 821The outbreak of the war found the Fleet Air Arm using for the most part adapted land⁓type machines.
1949 Here & Now ( N.Z. ) Oct. 23/3Following the old Spanish custom still prevalent at California-type barbecues, the meat can be served with some version of hot, tangy tomato sauce.
1959 Chambers's Encycl. IV. 693/2The indulines and nigrosines are important azine type dyes.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 8 Mar. 77/1 He showed slides of some of his farm-made, ‘home⁓grown’ Dutch-barn-type buildings which he believed in putting up.
1970 Daily Tel. 18 Aug. 11Ocean Spirit is the biggest-type glass fibre boat ever made in this country.
1973 New Statesman 19 Oct. 557/3 Fifties-type social realist films.
1976 Derbyshire Times (Peak ed. ) 3 Sept. 15/1 (Advt. ),A very spacious older type house.
ORIGIN: Repr. French -type , Latin -typus , Greek -tupos , from base of tuptein beat, strike.
-type
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
Suffix
- impressed form; stamp; print
- typical form