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format

noun
/ˈfɔː(ɹ).mæt/UK/ˈfɔːɹ.mæt/US

Etymology

Via French format and German Format, from New Latin liber fōrmātus (“book fashioned”), from fōrmō (“to shape, fashion”).

  1. derived from liber
  2. derived from Format
  3. derived from format

Definitions

  1. The layout of a publication or document.

    • The older manuscripts had been written in a much larger format than that found convenient for university work.

  2. The form of presentation of something.

  3. The type of programming that a radio station broadcasts

    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.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A file type.

    2. To create or edit the layout of a document.

    3. Change a document so it will fit onto a different type of page.

    4. To prepare a mass storage medium for initial use, erasing any existing data in the…

      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.

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Derived

container format, E-format, file format, formatize, format string, Harvard format, large format, letterbox format, medium format, microformat, multiformat, package format, radio format, subformat, zoo format, wildmat, autoformat, deformat, formattable, formatter, formatting, misformat, overformat, preformat, unformat

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at format. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01format02broadcasts03broadcast04cast05accounts06account07business08commercial

A definitional loop anchored at format. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at format

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA