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Format
Format
format
format
English
Noun
format (plural formats)
- The layout of a publication or document.
- G. H. Putnam
- The older manuscripts had been written in a much larger format than that found convenient for university work.
- G. H. Putnam
- (hence) The form of presentation of something.
- (radio) The type of programming that a radio station broadcasts; such as a certain genre of music, news, sports, talk, etc.
- The radio station changed the format of its evening program.
- (computing) A file type.
Translations
layout of a document
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form of presentation
computing: file type
Verb
format (third-person singular simple present formats, present participle formatting, simple past and past participle formatted)
- To create or edit the layout of a document.
- Change a document so it will fit onto a different type of page.
- (computing) To prepare a mass storage medium for initial use, erasing any existing data in the process.
- I lost weeks of work when I inadvertently formatted my hard drive.
Synonyms
- (change a document to fit onto different type of page): reformat
- (computing: prepare storage medium): initialise, initialize
Derived terms
Translations
create or edit the layout of a document
change a document so it will fit onto a different type of page
computing: prepare a mass storage medium for initial use
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Crimean Tatar
Etymology
From German Format, from Latin fōrmātus (“formed”).
Noun
format
Declension
Declension of format
| nominative | format |
|---|---|
| genitive | formatnıñ |
| dative | formatqa |
| accusative | formatnı |
| locative | formatta |
| ablative | formattan |
References
- Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary], Simferopol: Dolya, ISBN 966-7980-89-8
French
Etymology
From German Format, from Latin fōrmātus (“formed”).
Noun
format m (plural formats)
Related terms
Norman
Etymology
From Latin fōrmātus (“formed”).
Noun
format m (plural formats)
Derived terms
- formater (“to format”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
format n (definite singular formatet, indefinite plural format or formater, definite plural formata or formatene)
- a format
References
- “format” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
format n (definite singular formatet, indefinite plural format, definite plural formata)
- a format
References
- “format” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *uɸor-man-to-, from Proto-Indo-European *upér- (“over”) + *men- (“to think”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈformad/
Noun
format n
- verbal noun of for·muinethar
- envy, jealousy
- 8th century, St. Patrick's Breastplate
- Cech duine nos·géba cech dia co n-innithem léir i nDia, ní thairisfet demna fria gnúis, bid dítin dó ar cech neim ⁊ ḟormat, bid cóemna dó fri dianbas, bid lúrech dia anmain iarna étsecht.
- When anyone shall repeat it every day with diligent intentness on God, devils shall not dare to face him, it shall be a protection to him against every poison and envy, it shall be a defence to him against sudden death, it shall be a corslet to his soul after his death.
- Cech duine nos·géba cech dia co n-innithem léir i nDia, ní thairisfet demna fria gnúis, bid dítin dó ar cech neim ⁊ ḟormat, bid cóemna dó fri dianbas, bid lúrech dia anmain iarna étsecht.
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12c29
- Ní ar formut frib-si as·biur-sa inso.
- It is not because of envy towards you that I say this.
- Ní ar formut frib-si as·biur-sa inso.
- 8th century, St. Patrick's Breastplate
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Irish: formad
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| format | ḟormat | format pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /forˈmat/
Etymology 1
Noun
format n (plural formate)
Declension
declension of format
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) format | formatul | (niște) formate | formatele |
| genitive/dative | (unui) format | formatului | (unor) formate | formatelor |
| vocative | formatule | formatelor | ||
Etymology 2
Form of the verb forma.
Participle
format
- past participle of forma
Swedish
Pronunciation
Adjective
format
- absolute indefinite neuter form of formad.
Noun
format n
Declension
| Inflection of format | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | format | formatet | format | formaten |
| Genitive | formats | formatets | formats | formatens |
Related terms
- filformat
- formatera
- formation
- formatmall
- utbytesformat
Verb
format
- supine of forma.