The difference between Stripe and Type

When used as nouns, stripe means a long, relatively straight region of a single colour, whereas type means a grouping based on shared characteristics.

When used as verbs, stripe means to mark with stripes, whereas type means to put text on paper using a typewriter.


check bellow for the other definitions of Stripe and Type

  1. Stripe as a noun:

    A long, relatively straight region of a single colour.

    Examples:

    "zebra stripes'"

  2. Stripe as a noun (in the plural):

    The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.

  3. Stripe as a noun (informal):

    Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.

    Examples:

    "persons of the same political stripe"

  4. Stripe as a noun:

    A long narrow mark left by striking with a lash or rod; by extension, such a stroke.

  5. Stripe as a noun (weaving):

    A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.

  1. Stripe as a verb (transitive):

    To mark with stripes.

  2. Stripe as a verb (transitive):

    To lash with a whip or strap.

  3. Stripe as a verb (transitive, computing):

    To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.

  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.