typifying
present participle oftypify
typify
verb[T,not continuous]
uk/ˈtɪp.ɪ.faɪ/us/ˈtɪp.ə.faɪ/Something that typifies aparticulargroupof thingsshowsall thecharacteristicsthat you would usuallyexpectfrom it:
With hisblond, blue-eyedathleticlooks, he typifies theall-Americanboynextdoor.
to becharacteristicof something:
Hislatestbookreflectstheoldpreoccupationswithsexandreligionthat typify much of hiswork.
Typifying, illustrating and exemplifying
- analogy
- archetypal
- archetypically
- besomeoneall overidiom
- betoken
- genre
- instantiate
- mirror
- Mr
- Mrs
- on-brand
- sum
- summation
- symbolic
- symbolize
- symptomatic
- tantamount
- territory
- token
- translate
Examplesoftypifying
typifying
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
System 2 conjoins the various characteristics that have been viewed astypifyingcontrolled processing.
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For the quarriers, it was their position in production as skilled workers that lent this generalizable,typifyingauthority.
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Such symbols exist within their flat abstract world, simplifying, ortypifying, rather than attempting to represent reality.
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Astypifyingcases where uncertainty is perceived to be high, trust became a prominent feature in the construction of social ordering.
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It identifies the uniqueness of the situation bytypifyinga border context in which a low variety in a diglossic community is subject to a change from above.
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They provide a climax, summing up, condensing andtypifying, or mark a change of footing, indicating a closing or a contrast or adding a jocular tone.
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In the case of honorific lexical registers, for example, language users readily agree that cer tain lexemes mark relationships of respect, thustypifyingspeech as a marker of social relationships.
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I take the matter of electrification of lines astypifyingthe situation.
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I had a letter only yesterdaytypifyingthat kind of case.
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We find now an excess of withdrawals over deposits—and what bad figures are revealed for last week—typifyingthe increasing strain upon the household budgets of the struggling masses.
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In his right hand he holds on to the cut cloth,typifyingwhat was known in the needle trades as the struggle for the bundle.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Instead, he opted for an almost modern largetypifyingshape.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Typifyingthe manifold missions of the destroyer, she trained with aircraft carriers, with submarines, in convoy escort exercises, and in amphibious operations.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There are other recognizedtypifyingcharacteristics for artillery.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is... that political and economic power must be vested in the majority,typifyingthe mixture of socialist and nationalist motivations the policy represented.
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- turnout
- turn-out
- turnout rate
- turn over
- turnover
- turn-over
- turn over a new leaf
- turn-over-a-new-leaf
- turn-over-in-grave
- turn over in your grave
- turnover rate
- turnover rate
- turnover ratio
- turnover-ratio
- turn over sth
- turn-over-sth
- turnover tax
- turnover-tax
- turn-over-to
- turnpike
- turn-roll-over-in-grave
- turn/roll over in your grave
- turn round
- turnround
- turn-round