antitype | (noun) a person or thing represented or foreshadowed by an earlier type or symbol; especially a figure or event in the New Testament having a counterpart in the Old Testament | - |
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(noun) an opposite or contrasting type | - |
archetype | (noun) something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies | Synonyms: original, pilot |
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autostereotype | (noun) the standardized mental picture held in common by members of a cultural group depicting an oversimplified image of themselves and their behaviour. | - |
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autotype | (noun) an exact copy or reproduction | Synonyms: facsimile |
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(noun) process for producing permanent prints in a carbon pigment | Synonyms: autotypy |
biotype | (noun) organisms sharing a specified genotype or the genotype (or peculiarities) so shared | - |
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collotype | (noun) a photomechanical printing process that uses a glass plate with a gelatin surface that carries the image to be reproduced; can be used with one or more colors | Synonyms: collotype printing, photogelatin process |
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daguerreotype | (noun) a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor | - |
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genotype | (noun) the particular alleles at specified loci present in an organism | Synonyms: genetic constitution |
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(noun) a group of organisms sharing a specific genetic constitution | - |
haplotype | (noun) (genetics) a combination of alleles (for different genes) that are located closely together on the same chromosome and that tend to be inherited together | - |
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heliotype | (noun) duplicator consisting of a gelatin plate from which ink can be taken to make a copy | Synonyms: hectograph |
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holotype | (noun) the original specimen from which the description of a new species is made | Synonyms: type specimen |
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hype | (noun) blatant or sensational promotion | Synonyms: ballyhoo, hoopla, plug |
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karyotype | (noun) the appearance of the chromosomal makeup of a somatic cell in an individual or species (including the number and arrangement and size and structure of the chromosomes) | - |
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logotype | (noun) a company emblem or device | Synonyms: logo |
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monotype | (noun) a typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that sets separate characters | - |
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(noun) the sole print made by pressing paper against a painted or inked glass or metal plate | - |
(noun) (biology) a taxonomic group with a single member (a single species or genus) | - |
phenotype | (noun) what an organism looks like as a consequence of the interaction of its genotype and the environment | - |
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prototype | (noun) a standard or typical example | Synonyms: epitome, image, paradigm |
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somatotype | (noun) a category of physique | Synonyms: body type |
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stereotype | (noun) a conventional or formulaic conception or image | - |
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type | (noun) a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end; produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper | - |
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(noun) a subdivision of a particular kind of thing | - |
(noun) all of the tokens of the same symbol | - |
(noun) printed characters | - |
(noun) (biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon | - |
(noun) a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities) | Synonyms: case, character, eccentric |