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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
typical
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a good/typical example
▪ This painting is a good example of his early work.
average/typical/ordinary punter
▪ The technical details mean nothing to the average punter.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ We may take Lord Wilberforce's argument as typical of the Lords' approach.
▪ Certainly the experience of Phoenix, Stamford, and Rochester should not be regarded as typical.
▪ Cara recognized it as typical West Riding segregation, the men together, the women likewise.
▪ As I explain further below, aggressive behaviour is regarded as typical only of lowlanders and spirits.
▪ It would be unwise to suggest that any of these remembered families can stand as typical.
▪ The latter are worth noting as typical of the general philosophy claimed by many schools to underpin their project involvement: 4.
▪ What about the people who wrote or told us life stories: how far can they be taken as typical?
▪ The attacks on the Woodvilles should not be taken as typical of Gloucester's approach as protector.
fairly
▪ Setting out the structure So, to take a fairly typical example, let's begin to design a newsletter.
▪ She had been, in other words, a fairly typical student.
▪ From one fairly typical grammar school, studied by Colin Lacey, the fee-payers had almost disappeared as early as 1925.
▪ The basic components we will describe are fairly typical.
▪ Highlander's initial involvement with the Yellow Creek people followed a fairly typical pattern.
▪ This reaction is fairly typical for children who have some problems with aggression but who none the less have good potential.
▪ This palace is fairly typical of the building development in the Malá Strana.
▪ Atwater was more colorful and more publicly vicious than most, but his tactics were fairly typical.
more
▪ Reeth is a fine Dales town more typical of an old East Riding town than a town of the Craven dales.
▪ A more typical California viognier comes from Preston Vineyards.
▪ Sills can be hundreds of metres thick but 10 m-30 m is a more typical range.
▪ It is more typical of this group than of any other I know.
▪ Dan Vandenberg witnessed jets in a more typical role.
▪ Fifteen calls, most of them after midnight, would be more typical.
▪ My point is, these opportunities might not have come her way had she played a more typical instrument.
most
▪ The most typical occurrence of these fossils is in dark, often sooty, black shales.
▪ In the most typical design, the experimenter separates a group of subjects into two or more groups.
▪ The most typical Byzantine form is the basket or cubical capital.
▪ Current expenditure consists of those items that recur regularly: expenditure on wages and salaries is the most typical example.
▪ Bracken and heather made rufous brown the most typical colour.
▪ The triumphal arch or, as it was earlier called the monumental arch, is the most typical of all the forms.
▪ The language work develops awareness and build students' knowledge in lexical and linguistic areas most typical of academic prose.
▪ Humour is one of the most typical ingredients in Masefield's adventure stories as a whole.
so
▪ Didn't you spend the first session deciding whether to include that little pre-position? So typical.
▪ What happened is so typical of the way earth-science ideas develop.
▪ My family are just so typical.
▪ Such stunts, so typical of Ellet, not only enhanced his own reputation but also focused public attention on his project.
▪ It would be so typical if Jenny missed her while she was in the booth.
▪ Finally, there is the secrecy and confidentiality which is so typical of public bureaucracies.
▪ It was so typical of him, wanting to understand what he thought and why he thought it.
■ NOUN
case
▪ The international automobile industry is a typical case where shortening the product development lead time is recognized as a valuable competitive weapon.
▪ Dash Riprock was an excellent and typical case in point.
▪ I mention him simply because his was a typical case.
▪ One of the ongoing partisan battles over spending led to a typical case of gridlock as the legislative session ended last month.
▪ A typical case was that of an arc welding operation.
▪ A second typical case would be a civil action suit which will probably move slowly and take two to three years.
▪ Siphoning money abroad in this way is a typical case to which the new legislation must have been intended to apply.
▪ The Ministry of Posts, he says, was a typical case.
day
▪ A 1926 survey showed 13,446 passengers arriving at Charing Cross Station between 7 and 10 a.m. on a typical day.
▪ The thirtieth of June was a fairly typical day.
▪ A typical day at the office.
▪ Into a typical day they fit caring for their children, working in the house and working for a wage.
▪ A typical day includes offering information to dozens of tourists and picking up litter.
▪ In this chapter we are able to witness a typical day in its life.
▪ Some brand managers joke that after a typical day on the job, they are too full to eat dinner at home.
example
▪ A typical example was Gert, a complex boy who confused Bloomsbury House visitors.
▪ A typical example is as follows.
▪ The famous Newport scandal seems a typical example.
▪ Three typical examples are given in Fig. 5.3.
▪ A sizeable centre with ancient agricultural traditions, it is a typical example of the resourceful toils of the region.
▪ In this chapter typical examples of the kinds of fossils most commonly encountered are illustrated by beautiful specimens.
▪ A typical example of such a long-term health problem is arthritis.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Dad forgot to mail the letter." "That's just typical!"
▪ "Is there a typical New York breakfast?" "Bagels and coffee."
▪ a typical American diner, with twangy-voiced waitresses and vinyl booths
▪ It's typical of Ramon to waste time when he knows we're already late.
▪ Kim's a typical teenager - she doesn't want anything to do with her parents.
▪ Mrs Quilley greeted the guests with typical charm and confidence.
▪ On a typical day, the president receives more than 4,500 letters.
▪ This is typical adolescent behaviour - part of the process of becoming independent from your parents.
▪ This painting is typical of Manet's portraits of Morisot - a beautiful woman, gazing sadly out at the viewer.
▪ With his shorts and camera around his neck, he looked like a typical tourist.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A typical Congress sees about 90, 000 remarks between the chambers.
▪ A typical microcomputer will have 48K or 64K of memory i.e. 48 or 64 Kilobytes or 48,000 bytes.
▪ But you know Paster and Richards: typical gunship pilots.
▪ Lane and Roberts do not claim that the strike was typical of other strikes.
▪ The typical judge loves the rewards of office and tends to be imperious in asserting and defending them.
▪ The typical prisoner of nightmare, he could neither shout nor move.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Typical

Typical \Typ"ic*al\, a. [L. typicus, Gr. ?, from ? type: cf. F. typique. See Type.]

  1. Of the nature of a type; representing something by a form, model, or resemblance; emblematic; prefigurative.

    The Levitical priesthood was only typical of the Christian.
    --Atterbury.

  2. (Nat. Hist.) Combining or exhibiting the essential characteristics of a group; as, a typical genus. [1913 Webster] -- Typ"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Typ"ic*al*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
typical

c.1600, "symbolic, emblematic," from Medieval Latin typicalis "symbolic," from Late Latin typicus "of or pertaining to a type," from Greek typikos, from typos "impression" (see type (n.)). Sense of "characteristic" is first recorded 1850. Related: Typically.

Wiktionary
typical

a. 1 capture the overall sense of a thing. 2 Characteristically representing something by form, group, idea or type. 3 normal, average; to be expected. n. Anything that is typical, normal, or standard.

WordNet
typical

  1. adj. exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or category; "a typical American girl"; "a typical suburban community"; "the typical car owner drives 10,000 miles a year"; "a painting typical of the Impressionist school"; "a typical romantic poem"; "a typical case of arteritis" [ant: atypical]

  2. of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing; "Jerusalem has a distinctive Middle East flavor"- Curtis Wilkie; "that is typical of you!" [syn: distinctive]

  3. conforming to a type; "the typical (or normal) American"; "typical teenage behavior"

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Wikipedia
Typical (MuteMath song)

"Typical" is the debut single from New Orleans rock group Mutemath. The song was written in 2003 by Paul Meany and Darren King. The digital single was released on April 10, 2007. A physical single was released in the UK only on August 27, 2007. Josh Harris club remixes of the song were also released digitally to several outlets on September 18, 2007. The song is also featured as downloadable content for the Rock Band series of video games. The song was also featured in the 2009 film, The Stepfather.

Typical (album)

Typical is a live album by Peter Hammill, recorded in 1992 and released in 1999. It is a double CD and was released on Hammill's own Fie! Records label. The album was recorded at nine concerts in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy.

Typical

Typical may refer to:

  • Typical, story collection by Padgett Powell 1991
  • Typical (album), Peter Hammill
  • "Typical "(song), song by MuteMath
  • "Typical", song by Frazier Chorus from Sue 1987

Usage examples of "typical".

A number of archaeologists have concluded that the tanging of adzes was brought to Polynesia by migrants from the west, although tanging is not typical of Western Polynesian, Melanesian or Micronesian adzes.

Amen and in his affidavit, Ohlendorf described how a typical killing took place.

Only later would the hair develop the dark and light bars of the typical agouti coloration of an adult wolf -- if it would at all.

Eight wore the skins typical of the Akka people, furs and hides sewn into clothing.

Gavvmg held his temper and Horse took it with typical docility, but Alfin was still protesting as they broke through into sunlight.

At first glance, even on the second, Amicus looked typical of thousands of frontier pesthole villes he had passed through.

Nevertheless, a typical arbitration award simply orders one party to pay money to another.

It is the axon that is the nerve fiber in the typical nerve, and such a fiber, although microscopically thin, is sometimes several feet long, which is unusual, considering that it is part of a single cell.

Both of these schedules are typical for infants and illustrate how very different babies can be in their daily rhythms.

Another thing that perplexed Hero Buss was that their guns were not typical guerrilla weapons but the kind used for urban operations.

It was a typical field cage of the type that cadgers wore on their backs during a hunta cumbersome framework that loomed high above the shoulders and that would have been staggeringly heavy on Earth.

It was fairly typical to paint all the Carabinieri Corps with the same brush.

The chances of two women with the same unusual spelling of the name Caral both dying on the same night were just too much, and so, in typical fashion, Lucy came up with a plan.

Pompey Strabo had been a more typical product of his rural origins, had known only one way to deal with wells, cesspits, latrines, rubbish disposal, drainage: when the stink became unbearable, move on.

The level where the Blazer parked was even with the third floor, on which your room was located, a room that bore no resemblance whatsoever to the typical motel room, furnished as it was with Victoriana and flocked wallpaper, with chromolithographs instead of offset lithos in the picture frames.