Typical
['tɪpɪk(ə)l] or ['tɪpɪkl]
Definition
(adj.) conforming to a type; 'the typical (or normal) American'; 'typical teenage behavior' .
(adj.) exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or category; 'a typical American girl'; 'a typical suburban community'; 'the typical car owner drives 10,000 miles a year'; 'a painting typical of the Impressionist school'; 'a typical romantic poem'; 'a typical case of arteritis' .
Edited by Jimmy--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of the nature of a type; representing something by a form, model, or resemblance; emblematic; prefigurative.
(a.) Combining or exhibiting the essential characteristics of a group; as, a typical genus.
Edited by ELLA
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Figurative, emblematical, emblematic, indicative, representative.
Typist: Sophie
Examples
- He was very light in colour for a red man, but in other respects he seemed a typical specimen of this handsome race. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- His manners were perfect, and his courtliness was that of a typical southern gentleman of the highest type. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- A typical form of his transmitter, see Fig. 55, was a box covered with a vibrating membrane E, and provided with a mouth-piece at one side. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Such, apparently, is the simple doctrine of this typical imperialist. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Mr. Bhupendranath Basu has recently described a typical Hindu household. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The lower view shows typical subway construction for third rail train and surface cars. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Three typical historic philosophies of education were considered from this point of view. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Its structure and the laws of its life are, I believe, typical of all real sovereignties. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A third typical story of this period deals with a cipher message for Thomas. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- These are but typical of hundreds of men who could be named who have risen from work at the key to become recognized leaders in differing spheres of activity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- From Canada, after the episodes noted in the last chapter, he went to Adrian, Michigan, and of what happened there Edison tells a story typical of his wanderings for several years to come. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Was not this the typical pre-eminence of his profession? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Below us lay a typical Martian landscape. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The beak, however, is not so straight or so strong as in the typical woodpeckers but it is strong enough to bore into wood. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Of this Frederick II we shall tell more in a later section, because he was very typical of certain new forces that were coming into European affairs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Starting on June 5th, when the exhibition closed on June 23d this tiny but typical road had operated for over 118 hours, had made over 446 miles, and had carried 26,805 passengers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But as the old man--and before he was thirty years old he was affectionately so called by his laboratory associates--he is a normal, fun-loving, typical American. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They are typical idols of the American people. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Moral philosophies which have started from such premises have developed four typical ways of dealing with the question. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I did not want a detached study of some specially selected cross-section of what is after all not the typical economic life of America. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A typical vessel of this sort was the clipper ship _Great Republic_, built by Donald McKay of Boston during the first half of the century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- They are typical American idols, and they deserve some study. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- President Butler is, I grant, a caricature of the typical professor. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The Established Church of England is one of the most typical and successful of the resulting compromises. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For example, they held there was a typical European, an ideal European, who was far more real than any individual European. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Grim and uncompromising as the description reads, it was typical of the equipment in those remote days of the telegraph at the close of the war. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He was a typical man of the new Equestrian type, the social equivalent of a modern munition profiteer. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was a quite typical instance of that silly firmness which shatters empires. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was a Franciscan of Oxford, and a very typical Englishman indeed, irritable, hasty, honest, and shrewd. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Within the sphere of philosophic thought there have been two typical attempts to provide a working representative of the absolute goal. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Typist: Sophie