The difference between Class and Type
When used as nouns, class means a group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes, whereas type means a grouping based on shared characteristics.
When used as verbs, class means to assign to a class, whereas type means to put text on paper using a typewriter.
Class is also adjective with the meaning: great.
check bellow for the other definitions of Class and Type
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Class as a noun (countable):
A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
Examples:
"The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class."
"That is one class-A heifer you got there, sonny."
"Often used to imply membership of a large class."
"This word has a whole class of metaphoric extensions."
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Class as a noun (sociology, countable):
A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes; upper class, middle class and working class.
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Class as a noun (uncountable):
The division of society into classes.
Examples:
"Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England."
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Class as a noun (uncountable):
Admirable behavior; elegance.
Examples:
"Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class."
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Class as a noun (education, countable, and, uncountable):
A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
Examples:
"The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story."
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Class as a noun:
A series of classes covering a single subject.
Examples:
"I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot."
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Class as a noun (countable):
A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
Examples:
"The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy."
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Class as a noun (countable):
A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
Examples:
"I used to fly business class, but now my company can only afford economy."
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Class as a noun (taxonomy, countable):
A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
Examples:
"Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida."
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Class as a noun:
Best of its kind.
Examples:
"It is the class of Italian bottled waters."
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Class as a noun (set theory):
A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
Examples:
"The class of all sets is not a set."
"Every set is a class, but classes are not generally sets. A class that is not a set is called a proper class."
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Class as a noun (military):
A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
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Class as a noun (object-oriented, countable):
A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.
Examples:
"an abstract base class'"
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Class as a noun:
One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.
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Class as a verb (transitive):
To assign to a class; to classify.
Examples:
"I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period."
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Class as a verb (intransitive):
To be grouped or classed.
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Class as a verb (transitive):
To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
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Class as an adjective (Irish, British, slang):
great; fabulous
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Type as a noun:
A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
Examples:
"This type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane."
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Type as a noun:
An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
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Type as a noun:
An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
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Type as a noun (printing, countable):
A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block. Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size. Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.
Examples:
"The headline was set in bold type."
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Type as a noun (taxonomy):
Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.
Examples:
"the type of a genus, family, etc."
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Type as a noun:
Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
Examples:
"We can't get along: he's just not my type."
"He was exactly her type."
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Type as a noun (medicine):
A blood group.
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Type as a noun (corpus linguistics):
A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.
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Type as a noun (theology):
An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
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Type as a noun (computing theory):
A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.
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Type as a noun (fine arts):
The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; especially, the design on the face of a medal or a coin.
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Type as a noun (chemistry):
A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.
Examples:
"The fundamental types used to express the simplest and most essential chemical relations are hydrochloric acid, water, ammonia, and methane."
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Type as a noun (mathematics):
A part of the partition of the object domain of a logical theory (which due to the existence of such partition, would be called a typed theory). (Note: this corresponds to the notion of "data type" in computing theory.)
Examples:
"Categorial grammar is like a combination of context-free grammar and types."
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Type as a verb:
To put text on paper using a typewriter.
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Type as a verb:
To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
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Type as a verb:
To determine the blood type of.
Examples:
"The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion."
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Type as a verb:
To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
Examples:
"rfquotek White (Johnson)"
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Type as a verb:
To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
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Type as a verb:
To categorize into types.