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Stereotype

Noun

Definitions

1.NounA conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person or a group of people).
"Not all Zumbetonians wear plimsolls. That's just a stereotype."
2.NounA person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
3.NounA metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
4.NounAn extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.
5.VerbTo make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
6.VerbTo prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
"to stereotype the Bible"
7.VerbTo print from a stereotype.
8.VerbTo make firm or permanent; to fix.
9.AdjectiveOf an edition: printed in stereotype.
10.AdjectiveSynonym of stereotyped.
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