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TYPIFY

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected form: typified   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol

Example:

What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?

Synonyms:

represent; stand for; symbolise; symbolize; typify

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "typify" is one way to...):

intend; mean (mean or intend to express or convey)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "typify"):

be; embody; personify (represent, as of a character on stage)

epitomise; epitomize; typify (embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

typification (the act of representing by a type or symbol; the action of typifying)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of

Example:

The fugue typifies Bach's style of composition

Synonyms:

epitomise; epitomize; typify

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "typify" is one way to...):

represent; stand for; symbolise; symbolize; typify (express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

type (a subdivision of a particular kind of thing)

type ((biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon)

type (a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities))

typification (a representational or typifying form or model)

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