quality vs type

quality

noun
  • Something that differentiates a thing or person. 

  • The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like. 

  • A newspaper with relatively serious, high-quality content. 

  • Level of excellence. 

  • The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed to scope of functions or quantity of items. 

  • In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture. 

adj
  • Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose; of high quality. 

type

noun
  • An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment. 

  • A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class. 

  • Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to. 

  • A part of the partition of the object domain of a logical theory (which due to the existence of such partition, would be called a typed theory). (Note: this corresponds to the notion of "data type" in computing theory.) 

  • Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics. 

  • A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived. 

  • A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token. 

  • The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; especially, the design on the face of a medal or a coin. 

  • Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size. 

  • A symbol, emblem, or example of something. 

  • An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc. 

  • Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical. 

  • An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times. 

  • A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type. 

  • A blood group. 

verb
  • To determine the blood type of. 

  • To categorize into types. 

  • To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard. 

  • To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure. 

  • To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify. 

  • To put text on paper using a typewriter. 

How often have the words quality and type occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )