type vs variety

type

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

  • 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. 

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

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

variety

noun
  • A rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form; hence, an organism of that rank. 

  • The total number of distinct states of a system; also, the logarithm to the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of a system. 

  • An animal or plant (or a group of such animals or plants) with characteristics causing it to differ from other animals or plants of the same species; a cultivar. 

  • In universal algebra: an equational class; the class of all algebraic structures of a given signature, satisfying a given set of identities. 

  • A specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level; an isolect or lect. 

  • A collection or number of different things. 

  • The kind of entertainment given in variety performances or shows; also, the production of, or performance in, variety performances or shows. 

  • A deviation or difference. 

  • A stamp, or set of stamps, which has one or more characteristics (such as colour, paper, etc.) differing from other stamps in the same issue, especially if such differences are intentionally introduced. 

  • The quality of being varied; diversity. 

  • A specific variation of something. 

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