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It used to be made of lead
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "symbol, emblem," from Latin typus "figure, image, form, kind," from Greek typos "a blow, dent, impression, mark, effect of a blow; figure in relief, image, statue; anything wrought of metal or stone; general form, character; outline, sketch," ...
Usage examples of type.
Some types of bridge can be built out from the abutments, the completed part forming an erecting stage on which lifting appliances are fixed.
It cannot be classified as a whorl of the double loop type because the formation above the lower loop is too pointed and it also has an appendage abutting upon it at a right angle.
When an authorized person needs to access the network from offsite, she must first identify herself as an authorized user by typing in her secret PIN and the digits displayed on her token device.
Moreover, acquiescence is not an appropriate response to this type of rapist.
The type of theology and method of instruction used by some of the earliest laborers in this field left something to be desired in point of adaptedness to the savage mind.
He stood by his assertion that cocaine could be useful in the process of weaning opium addicts from their addiction, justifiying this statement by asserting that cocaine would be addictive only to a certain type of weak personality.
Terrace Watson was seated behind his desk in the inner office, surrounded by file cabinets, an addressograph machine, a postage meter, a voice typer, and a computer with memory storage.
Meg went about from house to house, begging deadclothes, and got the body straighted in a wonderful decent manner, with a plate of earth and salt placed upon it--an admonitory type of mortality and eternal life that has ill-advisedly gone out of fashion.
Coming down the High Sierras slope, they ran into a large area of fog of the advection type.
But once you recognize the importance of this process, you will be better able to direct this type of activity for your business, whether you enlist the services of an advertising agency, a freelancer, a friend, or you attempt the creative .
Cooks, New Zealand, and Hawaii all possessed adzes and other cultural features of Eastern Polynesian type.
This could also have happened in New Zealand, where a variety of archaic adze types has been found.
Some of the resemblances between Pitcairn and New Zealand adze types may therefore be accidental.
Later arrivals could not have initiated any major changes in the language or culture, although they may have introduced one or more useful plants and an adze or two of exotic type.
What they wanted was not a limited, academic type of inquiry such as they expected to be made by the Condon team, but a country-wide effort involving the resources of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.