TYPIFY (typified)

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Irregular inflected form: typified   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does typify mean? 

• TYPIFY (verb)
  The verb TYPIFY has 2 senses:

1. embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of

2. express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol

  Familiarity information: TYPIFY used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TYPIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they typify    ... he / she / it typifies   
Past simple: typified   
Past participle: typified   
-ing form: typifying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

epitomise; epitomize; typify

Context example:

The fugue typifies Bach's style of composition

Hypernyms (to "typify" is one way to...):

represent; stand for; symbolise; symbolize; typify (express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

type (a subdivision of a particular kind of thing)

type ((biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon)

type (a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities))

typification (a representational or typifying form or model)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

represent; stand for; symbolise; symbolize; typify

Context example:

What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?

Hypernyms (to "typify" is one way to...):

intend; mean (mean or intend to express or convey)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "typify"):

be; embody; personify (represent, as of a character on stage)

epitomise; epitomize; typify (embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

typification (the act of representing by a type or symbol; the action of typifying)

 Context examples 

The ancients did well when they typified the soul as a butterfly!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This condition can be typified as allergic rhinitis, sinusitus, asthma, or eczema.

(IL4R wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

It’s been proposed that Neanderthals depended on visual-spatial abilities and toolmaking, for survival, more so than on the social affiliation and group activities that typify the success of modern humans – and that Neanderthal brains evolved to preferentially support these visuospatial functions.

(“Residual echo” of ancient humans in scans may hold clues to mental disorders, National Institutes of Health)