mindmap root((类型)) type may suggest strong and clearly marked similarity throughout the items included so that the distinctiveness of the group is obvious: one of three basic body ~s. kind may be indefinite and involve any criterion of classification whatever: that ~ of ice-cream; or may suggest natural and intrinsic criteria: a zoo with animals of every ~. sort often close to kind, may suggest a note of disparagement: the ~ of newspaper dealing in sensational stories. nature may imply inherent, essential resemblance rather than obvious, superficial likeness: two problems of a similar ~. ilk may suggest grouping on the basis of status, attitude, or temperament: synics of that ~. description implies a group marked by agreements in all details of a type as described or defined: not all individuals of that ~ are truly psychotic. character stresses the distinguishing and individualizing criteria that mark the group: a society with little of the ~ of an advanced culture.