kind,
sort,
variety,
form a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality; "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?"
breed a special type; "Google represents a new breed of entrepreneurs"
nature the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions; "it is his nature to help others"
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a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end; produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper; "he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up"
block a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides); "the pyramids were built with large stone blocks"
kern the part of a metal typeface that projects beyond its body
type -
printed characters; "small type is hard to read"
type -
all of the tokens of the same symbol; "the word `element' contains five different types of character"
type -
a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities); "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case"