Stereotype - English meaning

verb

Place in a particular class or group.

Usage examples:

Silk is categorized as a luxury import

verb

To put people or things into groups of people or things that have the same features

Usage examples:

Categorize sb/sth as sth you can categorize your company's strategy as a reactor, defender, analyze…

verb

To put people or things into groups with the same features

Usage examples:

Be categorized into the books are categorized into beginner and advanced., categorize something as …

noun

A phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought.

Usage examples:

That old cliché ‘a woman's place is in the home’

noun

An idea or expression that has been used too often and is often considered a sign of bad writing or old-fashioned thinking

Usage examples:

The story is shamelessly corny, and grownups will groan at its clichés.

noun

A phrase, remark, or opinion that has very often been said or expressed before and is therefore not original and not interesting

Usage examples:

My wedding day - and i know it's a cliché - was just the happiest day of my life., occasionally his…

verb

Divide into discrete sections or categories.

Usage examples:

He had the ability to compartmentalize his life

verb

To separate something into parts and not allow those parts to mix together

Usage examples:

His life was carefully compartmentalized, with his work in one city and his social life in another.

adjective

Based on or in accordance with what is generally done or believed.

Usage examples:

A conventional morality had dictated behaviour

adjective

Following the usual practices of the past

Usage examples:

We were raised in a conventional, middle-class family., it’s a conventional hot-water heater (= of …

adjective

Relating to accepted or traditional ways of doing something

Usage examples:

Conventional accounting/business practices/methods, it is estimated that over one-third of sub-prim…

verb

Cause to become conventional.

Usage examples:

A small society of language users can conventionalize communicative forms in a short time

adjective

Having become usual and generally accepted, or done in a way that is usual and generally accepted

Usage examples:

Words and phrases that have a conventionalized rather than a literal meaning are also known as phat…

noun

A mathematical relationship or rule expressed in symbols.

Usage examples:

The formula for the capacitance of a spherical capacitor

noun

The exact chemical parts that a mixture consists of

Usage examples:

[ c ] the company announced that it was changing its soft-drink formula to make it sweeter., [ c us…

noun

A standard or accepted way of doing something

Usage examples:

A formula for sth/for doing sth tandy had a simple formula for locating his stores: put them where …

adjective

Constituting or containing a set form of words.

Usage examples:

Formulaic expressions such as ‘once upon a time’

adjective

Containing or consisting of fixed and repeated groups of words or ideas

Usage examples:

The text was dull and formulaic.

adjective

(of a phrase or idea) having been overused; unoriginal and trite.

Usage examples:

Hackneyed old sayings

adjective

Used or said so often that it seems ordinary, meaningless, or not sincere

Usage examples:

A hackneyed plot

noun

A small piece of paper, fabric, plastic, or similar material attached to an object and giving information about it.

Usage examples:

The alcohol content is clearly stated on the label

verb

Another term for dripstone.

noun

A piece of paper or other material that gives information about the object it is attached to

Usage examples:

The address/mailing label, follow the instructions on the label., everything we produce goes out un…

noun

A small recess for a domestic pigeon to nest in.

Usage examples:

It's fortunate that they set up those pigeonholes because some of the pigeons have come home to roo…

verb

Assign to a particular category, typically an overly restrictive one.

Usage examples:

I was pigeonholed as a ‘youth writer’

verb

To put someone or something into a group or type, often unfairly

Usage examples:

He’s was pigeonholed early on in his career as a gospel singer.

adjective

Able to be predicted.

Usage examples:

The market is volatile and never predictable

adjective

Acting or happening in a way that is expected

Usage examples:

Comets usually appear at predictable times., she’s so predictable – she always wants to go to the s…

adjective

Happening as or when expected

Usage examples:

Bonds are attractive for investors seeking predictable returns on their investments., the supermark…

noun

A level of quality or attainment.

Usage examples:

Their restaurant offers a high standard of service

adjective

Used or accepted as normal or average.

Usage examples:

The standard rate of income tax

adjective

Usual or expected; not involving something special or extra

Usage examples:

A standard contract, i don’t work a standard, 35-hour week., the car came with an air conditioner a…

verb

Cause (something) to conform to a standard.

Usage examples:

In quoting from the letters, i have standardized the spelling and punctuation

verb

To make one thing the same as others of that type, or to compare one thing to something accepted as a model

Usage examples:

Governor vizard wants to standardize school spending throughout the state., at first, they made no …

verb

To make things of the same type have the same basic features

Usage examples:

Standardize procedures/processes/systems the agreement requires states to standardize their tax col…

verb

Cause (something) to conform to a standard.

Usage examples:

In quoting from the letters, i have standardized the spelling and punctuation

verb

Past simple and past participle of standardize

Usage examples:

We standardize parts such as rear-view mirrors, so that one type will fit any model of car we make.…

adjective

Relating to a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

Usage examples:

He fits the stereotypical masculine image of toughness

adjective

With the qualities that people usually expect of a particular type of person or thing, although this idea may be wrong

Usage examples:

Customers are tired of the stereotypical, fast-talking salesperson., in spite of its predictable pl…

noun

The goods or merchandise kept on the premises of a shop or warehouse and available for sale or distribution.

Usage examples:

The store has a very low turnover of stock

adjective

(of a product or type of product) usually kept in stock and thus regularly available for sale.

Usage examples:

25 per cent off stock items

verb

Have or keep a supply of (a particular product or type or product) available for sale.

Usage examples:

Most supermarkets now stock a range of organic produce

noun

A label attached to someone or something for the purpose of identification or to give other information.

Usage examples:

He gave his pet a collar with a metal name tag

verb

Attach a label to.

Usage examples:

Mothers suspected that their babies had been wrongly tagged during an alarm at the hospital

verb

Touch (someone being chased) in a game of tag.

Usage examples:

Freeze tag is a game where one person is selected to chase and tag the others.

verb

Assign (an actor or actress) repeatedly to the same type of role, as a result of the appropriateness of their appearance or previous success in such roles.

Usage examples:

He tends to be typecast as the caring, intelligent male

verb

To always give an actor the same type of character to play, usually because he or she is physically suited to that type of part

Usage examples:

She soon found herself typecast as a dizzy blonde.