Meaning

• A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person).

• A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.

• A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.

• (UML) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.

Meaning

• To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.

• To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.

  "to stereotype the Bible"

• To print from a stereotype.

• To make firm or permanent; to fix.