Meaning

1 senses

  1. To format in advance.

    Buying preformatted floppy disks saved me a lot of time.

Origin

From pre- + format.

From pre- + format.

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Forms

preformats, preformatting, preformatted, preformatted
Base formpreformat · to preformat
3rd person singularpreformats
Present participlepreformatting
Past simplepreformatted
Past participlepreformatted

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypreformat
he, she, itpreformats

Past simpleLesson

all personspreformatted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave preformatted
he, she, ithas preformatted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill preformat

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
preferenceB1preferentialprefixB1pregnancypregnantB1preheat

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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