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

This was a good question for me, which made me think hard. I would dare to say that Class is a compiletime thingy and Type is a runtime thingy. I say this because you write classes not types. The compiler then creates types from classes, and the runtime use types to create instances of objects.