stereotype

Pluralstereotypes

Formsstereotypes, stereotyping, stereotyped

1. 1
   nouncountable

   A fixed, too-simple idea about what all the people in a group are like.

   Like a label you stick on a whole group without really knowing each person.

   Many movies still rely on the same old stereotype of the absent-minded professor.

   The class talked about how each stereotype can hurt the real people it targets.

   Similarcaricature, generalization

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2. 2
   verbtransitive

   To judge someone unfairly by treating them as just like everyone else in their group.

   Like deciding a whole class will be noisy because one student was.

   Reporters often stereotype teenagers as lazy and rude.

   Try not to stereotype people you have only just met.

   Similartypecast, pigeonhole, label, caricature, categorize

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3. 3
   nouncountable

   A person who acts exactly like the common idea of their type.

   Like a character in a story who acts exactly the way you expect.

   He is a complete stereotype of the rich city banker.

   She seemed like a stereotype at first, but turned out to be very different.

   Similarcaricature, archetype

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4. 4
   nouncountable

   A metal plate used for printing, made by copying the raised shape of set type.

   Like a metal stamp made by pressing into a shaped copy of a page.

   The old print shop still keeps a stereotype from its very first edition.

   Workers melted down each stereotype once the print run had ended.

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5. 5
   verbtransitive

   To make metal printing plates of a page so it can be printed many times.

   Like saving a finished page as a metal copy you can use again and again.

   The firm decided to stereotype the dictionary for its many reprints.

   Printers would stereotype popular books to save the cost of resetting type.

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6. 6
   verbtransitive

   To print a page using a metal plate instead of the original set type.

   The press could stereotype the whole edition overnight.

   They stereotyped the morning paper from curved plates.

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7. 7
   adjective

   Describing a book or edition that was printed using metal stereotype plates.

   The library owns a rare stereotype edition of the poems.

   Collectors prize early stereotype editions for their durability.

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8. 8
   verbfigurativelytransitive

   To fix something firmly in place so that it cannot change.

   Like letting glue dry so two things stay stuck for good.

   Long tradition can stereotype a custom so firmly that it never changes.

   Years of strict drilling had stereotyped the team's every move.

   Similarfix, fossilize, ossify, entrench, freeze

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   nouncountable

   A way in software design diagrams to give an element a special, more specific role.

   Like a sticker that gives a plain shape a more exact job.

   The designer added a stereotype to mark the class as a web service.

   Each stereotype tells the team how a part of the system should behave.

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