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Stereotype

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

n. One that is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.

n. Printing A metal printing plate cast from a matrix molded from a raised printing surface, such as type.

v. To make a stereotype of.

v. To characterize by a stereotype: "Elderly Americans are the neglected sector of the fashion industry, stereotyped by blue hair and polyester pantsuits” ( American Demographics).

v. To give a fixed, unvarying form to.

v. To print from a stereotype.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

n. A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.

n. A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.

v. To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.

v. To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.

v. To print from a stereotype.

v. To make firm or permanent; to fix.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with type-metal face, used for printing.

n. The art or process of making such plates, or of executing work by means of them.

v. To prepare for printing in stereotype; to make the stereotype plates of.

v. Fig.: To make firm or permanent; to fix.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The duplicate, in one piece of type metal, of the face of a. collection of types composed for printing.

n. Loosely, an electrotype.

n. The art of making plates of fixed metallic types; the process of producing printed work by means of such plates.

Of or pertaining to stereotype, or stereotyping, or stereotype printing: as, stereotype work: stereotype plates.

To cast a stereotype plate from: as, to stereotype a page or a form.

To prepare for printing by means of stereotype plates: as, to stereotype the New Testament.

To fix or establish firmly or unchangeably.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. treat or classify according to a mental stereotype

n. a conventional or formulaic conception or image

Word Usage

"As we saw in chapter 4, the term stereotype threat has been coined to describe this phenomenon."

Verb Form

stereotyped stereotypes stereotyping

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

classify separate sort class sort out

Cross Reference

stereotypic stereotypical

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

fix

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

predictable commonplace cryptic connotation formal