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Format   /fˈɔrmˌæt/   Listen
Format

noun
1.
The organization of information according to preset specifications (usually for computer processing).  Synonyms: data format, data formatting, formatting.
2.
The general appearance of a publication.
verb
1.
Set (printed matter) into a specific format.  Synonym: arrange.
2.
Determine the arrangement of (data) for storage and display (in computer science).
3.
Divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data.  Synonyms: initialise, initialize.



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"Format" Quotes from Famous Books



... is a dark little book, "a size uncumbersome to the nicest hand," in the format of an Elzevir, bound in black morocco, and adorned with "blind-tooled," that is ungilt, skulls and crossbones. It has lost the title-page with the date, but retains the frontispiece, engraved by Huret. Saint Augustine, in his mitre and other ...
— Adventures among Books • Andrew Lang
... text with the underscore character "". Line length is 70-72 characters. A number of graphics occur in the text, these are referred to by number as "Graphic", etc. The Figures themselves are in a separate file. To facilitate conversion to a word-processing format, an attempt has been made to end each line with ...
— Ten Days That Shook the World • John Reed
... light to the counsels and a guide to the footsteps of the greatest around him. Fit to be the stay of princes, he is one of those venerable relics of the past which show us how beautiful age can be, and which, linking together different generations, format once the salt of society ...
— Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. • H. N. Hudson
... gentleman here in the confectionery line your brother, then, sir?" said Mr. Prettyman, feeling that it was an occasion on which format language ...
— Brother Jacob • George Eliot
... the Word format closely approximates the original text, except that sentence fragments are rejoined across page and illustration boundaries. The HTML and TXT formats discard page boundaries but retain the year references in square brackets. Thus [1492-1495] indicate the following text ...
— History of the United States, Vol. I (of VI) • E. Benjamin Andrews


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