Difference between Type and Typecast

What is the difference between Type and Typecast?

Type as a verb is to put text on paper using a typewriter. while Typecast as a verb is to cast an actor in the same kind of role repeatedly.

Type

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class. An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment. A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block. An individual considered representative of members of its taxonomic group: the type of a genus, family, etc. A blood group. An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly Old Testament events linked to Christian times. A tag attached to variables and values used in determining what values may be assigned to what variables.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To put text on paper using a typewriter. To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard. To determine the blood type.

Example sentence: I'm the type of person who responds to facts.

Typecast

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cast an actor in the same kind of role repeatedly.To identify someone as being of a specific type because of their appearance, colour, religion etc.To cast (change of data type of a variable or object).

Example sentence: There is so much power in vulnerability, and I am proud to be that typecast.

We hope you now know whether to use Type or Typecast in your sentence.

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