The difference between Kind and Type

When used as nouns, kind means a type, race or category, whereas type means a grouping based on shared characteristics.


Kind is also adjective with the meaning: having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature or disposition, marked by consideration for – and service to – others.

Type is also verb with the meaning: to put text on paper using a typewriter.

check bellow for the other definitions of Kind and Type

  1. Kind as a noun:

    A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.

    Examples:

    "What kind of a person are you?"

    "This is a strange kind of tobacco."

  2. Kind as a noun:

    A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.

    Examples:

    "The opening served as a kind of window."

  3. Kind as a noun (archaic):

    One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.

  4. Kind as a noun:

    Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.

  5. Kind as a noun:

    Equivalent means used as response to an action.

    Examples:

    "I'll pay in kind for his insult."

  6. Kind as a noun (Christianity):

    Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.

  1. Kind as an adjective:

    Having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature or disposition, marked by consideration for – and service to – others.

  2. Kind as an adjective:

    Affectionate.

    Examples:

    "a kind man; a kind heart"

  3. Kind as an adjective:

    Favorable.

  4. Kind as an adjective:

    Mild, gentle, forgiving

    Examples:

    "The years have been kind to Richard Gere; he ages well."

  5. Kind as an adjective:

    Gentle; tractable; easily governed.

    Examples:

    "a horse kind in harness"

  6. Kind as an adjective (obsolete):

    Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Chaucer"

  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.