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

  1. 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."

  2. 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.

  3. Class as a noun (uncountable):

    The division of society into classes.

    Examples:

    "Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England."

  4. Class as a noun (uncountable):

    Admirable behavior; elegance.

    Examples:

    "Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class."

  5. 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."

  6. 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."

  7. 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."

  8. 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."

  9. 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."

  10. Class as a noun:

    Best of its kind.

    Examples:

    "It is the class of Italian bottled waters."

  11. 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."

  12. 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.

  13. 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'"

  14. Class as a noun:

    One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.

  1. 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."

  2. Class as a verb (intransitive):

    To be grouped or classed.

  3. Class as a verb (transitive):

    To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.

  1. Class as an adjective (Irish, British, slang):

    great; fabulous

  1. 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."

  2. Type as a noun:

    An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.

  3. Type as a noun:

    An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.

  4. 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."

  5. 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."

  6. 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."

  7. Type as a noun (medicine):

    A blood group.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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."

  13. 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."

  1. Type as a verb:

    To put text on paper using a typewriter.

  2. Type as a verb:

    To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.

  3. Type as a verb:

    To determine the blood type of.

    Examples:

    "The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion."

  4. Type as a verb:

    To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek White (Johnson)"

  5. Type as a verb:

    To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.

  6. Type as a verb:

    To categorize into types.