The difference between Data type and Type
When used as nouns, data type means a classification or category of various types of data, that states the possible values that can be taken, how they are stored, and what range of operations are allowed on them, whereas type means a grouping based on shared characteristics.
Type is also verb with the meaning: to put text on paper using a typewriter.
check bellow for the other definitions of Data type and Type
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Data type as a noun (computing):
a classification or category of various types of data, that states the possible values that can be taken, how they are stored, and what range of operations are allowed on them
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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.