01-30-2004, 02:27 AM
Type is a verb and a noun.
By your reasoning, type is only a verb when it is conjugated as typed, typing or types.
Quote:type ( P ) Pronunciation Key (tp)
n.
A number of people or things having in common traits or characteristics that distinguish them as a group or class.
The general character or structure held in common by a number of people or things considered as a group or class.
A person or thing having the features of a group or class.
An example or a model having the ideal features of a group or class; an embodiment: “He was the perfect type of a military dandy” (Joyce Cary).
A person regarded as exemplifying a particular profession, rank, or social group: a group of executive types; a restaurant frequented by tourist types.
A figure, representation, or symbol of something to come, such as an event in the Old Testament that foreshadows another in the New Testament.
A taxonomic group, especially a genus or species, chosen as the representative example in characterizing the larger taxonomic group to which it belongs.
See holotype.
Printing.
A small block of metal or wood bearing a raised letter or character on the upper end that leaves a printed impression when inked and pressed on paper.
Such pieces considered as a group.
Printed or typewritten characters; print.
A size or style of printed or typewritten characters; a typeface: a sans-serif type.
A pattern, a design, or an image impressed or stamped onto the face of a coin.
v. typed, typ·ing, types
v. tr.
To write (something) with a typewriter; typewrite.
To determine the antigenic characteristics of (a blood or tissue sample).
To typecast.
To represent or typify.
To prefigure.
v. intr.
To write with a typewriter; typewrite.
By your reasoning, type is only a verb when it is conjugated as typed, typing or types.
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...like that cut on the roof of your mouth
that would go away if you'd stop tonguing it,
but you can't.</center>