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单词 typify
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Definition of typify in English:

typify

verbtypifying, typified, typifies ˈtɪpɪfʌɪˈtɪpəˌfaɪ
[with object]
  • 1Be characteristic or a representative example of.

    tough, low-lying vegetation typifies this arctic area
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Steep topography, sparse vegetation, and infrequent but intense thunderstorms typify many flash-flood hazard areas.
    • These characteristics typify what's expected in lower mainland steelhead carrying systems.
    • We consider the following seven characteristics as typifying the complex behavior of PTP.
    • This art style is typified by geometric, angular or figurative designs.
    • I also think that Packer is right: blogs are indeed ‘atomized, fragmentary, and of the instant’ and those are characteristics that typify successful media of our time.
    • These three characteristics typify the political Islamism that has been forceful for so long in several of our countries of origin.
    • To give you the clearest possible idea of what any given house is worth, we have, in most cases, identified the neighbourhood that we have treated as typifying any given area.
    • And you could probably typify both experiences as examples of the collective unconscious or race memory.
    • These are some examples of how the modern sporting identity is typified by self-centered and undisciplined behavior.
    • Its musical characteristics typify an Alpine song.
    • But the London man says that typifies his character.
    • He shows respect for everyone that he meets, and this characteristic typifies his good relationship with colleagues at home and abroad.
    • He added: ‘It is a shame they have not played against club sides because these places typify the character of English rugby.’
    • These examples typify the difficulties that psychologists may experience with peer review and commentary.
    • Several characters that typify a theropod: Hollow, thin-walled bones are diagnostic of theropod dinosaurs.
    • In this, he typifies the characters on Dawson's Creek who never really live because their self-consciousness always interjects itself.
    • She replies with a description which typifies the wonderful person of Christ.
    • This brushpot typifies the pictorial quality characteristic of so many later vessels, which were often worked as if the surface of the jade were a sheet of paper or a scroll to be unrolled.
    • We have described a number of approaches to graphical presentation of data in the context of classical factorial designs that typify published studies in experimental psychology.
    • This analysis helped to identify, clarify and describe skills that typify those needed to do this kind of work.
    • The first example typifies Spuddy's attitude to the system.
    • The book is full of anecdotes and examples which typify the techniques of speaking clearly and calmly, matching breathing in order to slow it down, and offering comforting and reassuring suggestions.
    Synonyms
    epitomize, exemplify, be representative of, represent, be characteristic of, characterize
    personify, embody, be the embodiment of, be the incarnation of
    rare instantiate, incarnate
  • 2Represent; symbolize.

    the sun typified the Greeks, and the moon the Persians
    Example sentencesExamples
    • What can you and the people you typify or represent do, in terms of leadership?
    • Martyn as much as anyone typified the important difference in the mood and character of this team compared with the one on which Keegan had walked out 12 months earlier.
    • You've actually got a slight majority opposing it and this really typifies why the public stands on these priorities, Kyra.
    • The challenge to meet fleet requirements and do deliberate strength planning is best typified by example.
    • Neds, or chavs, who prefer music by Eminem and are typified by the ghastly Little Britain character Vicky Pollard, right, are the other dominant group.
    • We must not forget that the imitators were those who decided which characteristics typified realism.
    • Although they are not necessarily the same from year to year, the characters deliberately typify the diversity of a campus setting.
    • Finally, both hold up as worthy of imitation exemplars or prototypes of people regarded as typifying the virtue or identity in question.
    • The Chancellor typifies the classic EU political elite unable to understand ‘NO’ in any language.
    • This symbolic geography, of course, typifies the upper division course in any discipline, where the field of study is the central topic.
    • The half-space resistance of the ground electrode is typified by a pronounced non-linearity in the potential characteristics.
    • It does not correspond to any documented location in historical Rome but seems instead to typify the visual character of the city at the height of its urban development.
    • So the greatest examples will typify their time and take you back there.
    • One is the classical current, as typified by Plato and Pythagoras before him.
    • On a more down-to-earth level it was also considered an irresponsible age, typified by the character of Pheidippides in Aristophanes' Clouds.
    • Thus, the relationships that youths described may not typify the full range of close online relationships of youths in general.
    • So, for example, if the user was interested in the class of sentences typified by the sentence.
    • Now, what is this mysterious quality of leadership, which, for the Christian, is typified by Christ?
    • At the same time, a message of hope was given to those who had sinned - God himself provided them with coats of animal skin, typifying the righteousness of Christ freely given to all who trust in his sacrificial death.
    • That is, the pre-Euclidean, Classical Greek geometers, typified by the Pythagoreans, and the School of Plato.
    • Beresford paints him as very much the metaphor for the anti-authoritarian, brash and struggling character whom typifies the mythologized Australian figure.
    • It's got nothing that typifies the term: no stuffy corridors, no overblown explanations, no assumption of knowledge.
    • The resulting wine should deliver a style that typifies the village on the label.
    • In his novel, James created distinctive characters that typified the city's self-conscious pride.
    • Like his restaurants, he typifies understated style and a calm underlying assurance of deep professionalism.
    Synonyms
    symbolize, be symbolic of, represent, stand for, be emblematic of
    rare emblematize

Derivatives

  • typification

  • noun tɪpɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)nˌtɪpəfəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n
    • Sociologist Joel Best describes a process of typification, whereby an often extreme example of crime is used to define a more general perceived problem.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • One of the most maddening and most modern aspects of his writing is that he foils most methods of decoding and typification.
      • In so doing he offers a well-documented example of the common phenomenon of people developing shared ad hoc typifications that they use to order the raw material for their work in a way that allows them to get on with the job.
      • It is unclear which countries are meant, or whether any concrete examples actually fit this typification.
      • Disclaimers are a device ‘to ward off and defeat in advance doubts and negative typifications which may result from intended conduct.
  • typifier

  • noun
    • The police are described as typifiers of Skid Row deviants.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • How can you and other ‘supposed’ typifiers use such a horrible statement to describe a GAME of all things!
      • Hill is not merely deemed to be a bad writer here, but has become a typifier of bad writing.
      • This is not to forget the way that Ruskin can at times regard nature as a symbolic typifier of God's handiwork.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin typus (see type) + -fy.

 
 

Definition of typify in US English:

typify

verbˈtɪpəˌfaɪˈtipəˌfī
[with object]
  • 1Be characteristic or a representative example of.

    tough, low-lying vegetation typifies this arctic area
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Steep topography, sparse vegetation, and infrequent but intense thunderstorms typify many flash-flood hazard areas.
    • He shows respect for everyone that he meets, and this characteristic typifies his good relationship with colleagues at home and abroad.
    • These examples typify the difficulties that psychologists may experience with peer review and commentary.
    • I also think that Packer is right: blogs are indeed ‘atomized, fragmentary, and of the instant’ and those are characteristics that typify successful media of our time.
    • These characteristics typify what's expected in lower mainland steelhead carrying systems.
    • This brushpot typifies the pictorial quality characteristic of so many later vessels, which were often worked as if the surface of the jade were a sheet of paper or a scroll to be unrolled.
    • And you could probably typify both experiences as examples of the collective unconscious or race memory.
    • These are some examples of how the modern sporting identity is typified by self-centered and undisciplined behavior.
    • This analysis helped to identify, clarify and describe skills that typify those needed to do this kind of work.
    • The first example typifies Spuddy's attitude to the system.
    • We have described a number of approaches to graphical presentation of data in the context of classical factorial designs that typify published studies in experimental psychology.
    • We consider the following seven characteristics as typifying the complex behavior of PTP.
    • He added: ‘It is a shame they have not played against club sides because these places typify the character of English rugby.’
    • In this, he typifies the characters on Dawson's Creek who never really live because their self-consciousness always interjects itself.
    • The book is full of anecdotes and examples which typify the techniques of speaking clearly and calmly, matching breathing in order to slow it down, and offering comforting and reassuring suggestions.
    • She replies with a description which typifies the wonderful person of Christ.
    • But the London man says that typifies his character.
    • This art style is typified by geometric, angular or figurative designs.
    • These three characteristics typify the political Islamism that has been forceful for so long in several of our countries of origin.
    • Several characters that typify a theropod: Hollow, thin-walled bones are diagnostic of theropod dinosaurs.
    • Its musical characteristics typify an Alpine song.
    • To give you the clearest possible idea of what any given house is worth, we have, in most cases, identified the neighbourhood that we have treated as typifying any given area.
    Synonyms
    epitomize, exemplify, be representative of, represent, be characteristic of, characterize
    1. 1.1 Represent; symbolize.
      the sun typified the Greeks, and the moon the Persians
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In his novel, James created distinctive characters that typified the city's self-conscious pride.
      • On a more down-to-earth level it was also considered an irresponsible age, typified by the character of Pheidippides in Aristophanes' Clouds.
      • Beresford paints him as very much the metaphor for the anti-authoritarian, brash and struggling character whom typifies the mythologized Australian figure.
      • It's got nothing that typifies the term: no stuffy corridors, no overblown explanations, no assumption of knowledge.
      • It does not correspond to any documented location in historical Rome but seems instead to typify the visual character of the city at the height of its urban development.
      • Neds, or chavs, who prefer music by Eminem and are typified by the ghastly Little Britain character Vicky Pollard, right, are the other dominant group.
      • So, for example, if the user was interested in the class of sentences typified by the sentence.
      • Thus, the relationships that youths described may not typify the full range of close online relationships of youths in general.
      • The Chancellor typifies the classic EU political elite unable to understand ‘NO’ in any language.
      • Finally, both hold up as worthy of imitation exemplars or prototypes of people regarded as typifying the virtue or identity in question.
      • That is, the pre-Euclidean, Classical Greek geometers, typified by the Pythagoreans, and the School of Plato.
      • One is the classical current, as typified by Plato and Pythagoras before him.
      • Although they are not necessarily the same from year to year, the characters deliberately typify the diversity of a campus setting.
      • Martyn as much as anyone typified the important difference in the mood and character of this team compared with the one on which Keegan had walked out 12 months earlier.
      • What can you and the people you typify or represent do, in terms of leadership?
      • We must not forget that the imitators were those who decided which characteristics typified realism.
      • At the same time, a message of hope was given to those who had sinned - God himself provided them with coats of animal skin, typifying the righteousness of Christ freely given to all who trust in his sacrificial death.
      • The half-space resistance of the ground electrode is typified by a pronounced non-linearity in the potential characteristics.
      • Like his restaurants, he typifies understated style and a calm underlying assurance of deep professionalism.
      • This symbolic geography, of course, typifies the upper division course in any discipline, where the field of study is the central topic.
      • The challenge to meet fleet requirements and do deliberate strength planning is best typified by example.
      • The resulting wine should deliver a style that typifies the village on the label.
      • So the greatest examples will typify their time and take you back there.
      • You've actually got a slight majority opposing it and this really typifies why the public stands on these priorities, Kyra.
      • Now, what is this mysterious quality of leadership, which, for the Christian, is typified by Christ?
      Synonyms
      symbolize, be symbolic of, represent, stand for, be emblematic of

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin typus (see type) + -fy.

 
 
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