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stereotype
/ˈstɛɹ.i.əˌtaɪp/
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What does stereotype mean?
noun
- A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person or a group of people).
- A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
- A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
More meanings (7)
noun
- An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.
verb
- To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
- To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
- To print from a stereotype.
- (figuratively) To make firm or permanent; to fix.
adjective
- Of an edition: printed in stereotype.
- (figuratively, rare) Synonym of stereotyped.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈstɛɹ.i.əˌtaɪp/
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The principal feature of this invention consisted in the curving or bending of stereotype plates for the purpose of being printed in that form.
Authors, to protect themselves, compelled the pirates to deliver over the stereotype plates they had made on penalty of being brought before the officials in litigation if they refused.
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They had two other sons besides Samuel, the second of whom, Sidney E. Morse, was founder of the New York OBSERVER, an able mathematician, author of the ART OF CEROGRAPHY, or engraving upon wax, to stereotype from, and inventor of a barometer for sounding the deep-sea.
But not alone has this Leviathan left his pre-adamite traces in the stereotype plates of nature, and in limestone and marl bequeathed his ancient bust; but upon Egyptian tablets, whose antiquity seems to claim for them an almost fossiliferous character, we find the unmistakable print of his fin.