The difference between Nature and Type
When used as nouns, nature means the natural world, whereas type means a grouping based on shared characteristics.
When used as verbs, nature means to endow with natural qualities, whereas type means to put text on paper using a typewriter.
check bellow for the other definitions of Nature and Type
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Nature as a noun (uncountable):
The natural world; that which consists of all things unaffected by or predating human technology, production, and design. E.G. the ecosystem, the natural environment, virgin ground, unmodified species, laws of nature.
Examples:
"'Nature never lies (i.e. tells untruths)."
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Nature as a noun:
The innate characteristics of a thing. What something will tend by its own constitution, to be or do. Distinct from what might be expected or intended.
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Nature as a noun:
The summary of everything that has to do with biological, chemical and physical states and events in the physical universe.
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Nature as a noun:
Conformity to that which is natural, as distinguished from that which is artificial, or forced, or remote from actual experience.
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Nature as a noun:
Kind, sort; character; quality.
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Nature as a noun (obsolete):
Physical constitution or existence; the vital powers; the natural life.
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Nature as a noun (obsolete):
Natural affection or reverence.
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Nature as a verb (obsolete):
To endow with natural qualities.
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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.