What is the difference between Type and Class?

Question

What makes a type different from class and vice versa?

(In the general language-agnostic sense)

Answer 1

Taken from the GoF citation from below:

An objects's class defines how the object is implemented .The class defines the object's internal state and the implementation of its operations.

In contrast, an objects's type only refers to its interface -the set of requests to which it can respond.

I want to provide an example using Java:

public interface IType {
}

public class A implements IType {
public A{};
}

public class B implements IType {
public B{};
}

Both classes A and B implement the interface and thus are of the type IType. Additionally in Java, both classes produce their own type (respectively to their class name). Thus the class A is of type A and IType and the class B is of type B and IType satisfying:

An object can have many types, and objects of different classes can have the same type.

The difference between subtypes and subclass probably helps to understand that issue as well:

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall98/cs441/mainus/node12.html