Meaning

4 senses
  1. The layout of a publication or document.

    Format

    форма́тformát

    the general appearance of a publication

  2. (broadly)The form of presentation of something.

    Struktur, Format

    структу́раstruktúra, форма́тformát

  3. 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. A file type.

    Format

    форма́тformát

Examples

45 sentences
  1. What format should I use?

    ruКакой формат я должен использовать? — Balamax

  2. You mustn't format this floppy disk.

    Не треба форматувати цей жорсткий диск. — deniko

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  3. I'll try to change the file format then.

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  4. The meeting then continued in a one-on-one format.

  5. I am afraid to format and lose all my important files.

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
layout of a document:
form of presentation:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
layout of a document:
form of presentation:

Origin

Via French format and German Format, from New Latin liber fōrmātus (“book fashioned”), fro

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

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Forms

plural: formats
Singularformat
Pluralformats

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the organization of information according to preset specifications (usually for computer processing):formattingdata formatdata formatting

Word family

14 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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