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US
/ˈtɪpəˌfaɪ/
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[ UK /tˈɪpɪfˌaɪ/ ]
[ UK /tˈɪpɪfˌaɪ/ ]
VERB
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express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol
What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize? -
embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of
The fugue typifies Bach's style of composition
How To Use typify In A Sentence
- As a result, instead of the clean visuals that typify the science fiction genre, we see lens flares, shaky handheld cameras, zooms, and sloppy rack focuses even in CGI shots.
- Thus the various ritual capacities of North Mekeo chiefs and sorcerers typify the sort of interpersonal agency implicit in Melanesian personal partibility.
- Several characters that typify a theropod: Hollow, thin-walled bones are diagnostic of theropod dinosaurs.
- Our home is at the southwestern tip of the valley, nestled among the lace-lichen laden oaks, bay laurel, mountain mahogany, ceanothus and toyon which typify this classically central coast California oak woodland.
- In the manufacturing plant where I worked, we did have a few Mexican engineers, and they did not seem to typify at all the tone of that story. Interesting tone about immigrants...
- The look and feel of the sets and lighting are designed to suggest the lurid splashes of colour and active space that typify the conventional comic book.
- Finally, both hold up as worthy of imitation exemplars or prototypes of people regarded as typifying the virtue or identity in question.
- Catherine Deneuve seemed to typify cool Gallic elegance.
- For Hopkins is not so much invoking the metaphysical potential of nature, and its capacity to typify states of mind, as he is making a conservationist plea.
- So the greatest examples will typify their time and take you back there.