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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
format
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
loose-leaf file/binder/format
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
available
▪ The reports are available in formats which have been approved by the Latter day Saints.
binary
▪ This is usually the case when fixed-point binary format is used to represent store addresses, for example.
▪ Boolean Variables 2.4.2.4 Numbers are stored in binary format.
▪ Floating point variables are stored in binary floating point format with their least significant byte first.
different
▪ The choice is yours - you have seven basic exercise types to choose from and more than thirty different formats.
▪ Nevertheless, many contemporary artists were having their drawings and paintings photographed rather than engraved and sold in different formats.
▪ Fermanagh is linked to the system but uses a different format.
▪ It is also linked to Lotus, so that information needs can be addressed in different formats.
▪ This letter has a different format from that used in previous years - again, the result of widespread consultation with centres.
▪ The series has been widely welcomed and used, and a number of its volumes are being reissued in a different format.
▪ A slightly different format for group affiliation exists in single industry organizations that dominate many of the sectors producing consumer goods.
▪ This means that different formats can be output from the same data source.
digital
▪ We decided to provide broadcasters temporarily with the spectrum needed to air programming simultaneously in both analog and digital formats.
large
▪ The guide is a large format paperback, priced £6.99.
▪ For the first time his work appears in large format and in Cibachrome colour.
▪ At other levels materials will fit into a larger format ring binder, possibly Deskfax.
▪ These are large format, high quality editions produced to the standards you expect only from hardbacks.
▪ The larger format will offer at 3-4 levels a range of self-study language teaching materials.
▪ For the larger format the market could include self-access centres.
▪ The inaugural issue has, however, every appearance of being Microdoc with a new cover and a slightly larger format.
new
▪ The new format of the double morning services is working well and everyone has been very co-operative.
▪ Romance publishers are also looking for new formats.
▪ They see him as a potential match-winner when the new four-day format is brought into championship cricket next year.
▪ This is the first show to experiment with a hostess, she is part of a new format.
▪ We hope you find this new format helpful, especially when planning your summer!
▪ Fairly self-explanatory, the new format gives lesser-known local bands a crack at the Congress stage and the opportunity for wider exposure.
▪ We hope you like the new format.
▪ A major goal of the new format is to boost the stagnant photo industry.
similar
▪ He was also presenting ballets in a similar format to Rustic Revelry.
▪ Other small birds like the house sparrow can follow a similar format but have squarer crowns to the head.
▪ Major art suppliers offer their own willow charcoals in similar formats.
▪ The Ventura approach is a document-oriented one working on the basis that each page will have a similar format.
standard
▪ Manufacturers would be required to maintain dossiers in a standard format on each product, a measure designed to facilitate safety checks.
▪ Again we have the standard format of the lower tray having been soldered to the upper shell.
▪ For scripting movies, there is a standard format in which each line represents a single shot.
▪ For costing and accounting purposes it is usual for payments to be supported by a payment certificate or a standard format.
▪ File names must conform to the standard Z88 format.
▪ It will also import and export a good range of standard formats.
▪ Many computers, like my old Amstrad and the Amiga, come in standard formats.
traditional
▪ In the first half of my drawing book the views had a fairly traditional format.
various
▪ These come in various formats - White Papers, departmental policy documents and ministerial statements, and speeches.
▪ Specific application for various page formats are covered in detail in later chapters.
▪ Everyone knows that there are various formats and varying degrees of emphasis on management and work force.
■ VERB
adopt
▪ Complications do arise, however, because different kinds of organizations adopt different formats.
▪ Many open meetings choose to have one or more speakers address the group, rather than adopting an interactive format.
▪ Statistical Reports Future annual statistical reports will adopt the same format and will incorporate information similar to that contained in this Update.
change
▪ Penguin books had changed their distinctive format.
▪ At the end of this chapter is a summary of how to change the date format. 5.
▪ Make sure there's no plan to change the exam format this year.
▪ At obvious places, change the format of characters or lines.
▪ This year, for the first time ever, we have changed the format of our programme by listing events under categories.
convert
▪ The processing required to convert the typesetting format to a usable format was essentially iterative and needed to be performed with care.
exist
▪ This feature necessarily copes with the existing mass of document formats.
follow
▪ Other small birds like the house sparrow can follow a similar format but have squarer crowns to the head.
▪ There are a few songs but mostly the show follows the stand-up format.
▪ The text follows a distinct format.
▪ Accounts must follow a format that will be laid down in regulations due to come into force in September 1993.
specify
▪ The section gives some indication of the questions the company may ask, but it does not specify a format.
store
▪ This leads to overflow records usually being stored in unblocked format, even if the records in the prime data area are blocked.
▪ Whilst files are stored in Mac format, MachTen will allow both Unix and Mac programs to share the same data simultaneously.
▪ Boolean Variables 2.4.2.4 Numbers are stored in binary format.
▪ Integer variables are stored in twos complement format with their least significant byte first.
▪ If the exponent of a floating point number is zero, the number is stored in integer format in the mantissa.
▪ Thus, an integer can be stored in 2 different formats in a real variable.
use
▪ We use the Hi8 format, it's a very small tape.
▪ Type the first paragraph using the default paragraph format. 3.
▪ Fermanagh is linked to the system but uses a different format.
▪ Computers use a variety of formats for recorded sound.
▪ This well written, concise guide is presented in a very easy to use A5 ring bound format.
▪ When you want to use an indented paragraph format, you have sev-eral options.
▪ For example, we ask authors to use a structured abstract format.
▪ At times, house air waybills use neutral formats that do not identify the first airline.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Most compact camcorders operate in the 8mm format.
▪ The interview was written in a question and answer format.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Are we getting bored with the format?
▪ Detailed conversion from arcade hit game to console format.
▪ Please look at the enclosed magazine to see the usual format for articles.
▪ Solicitors may produce their own forms provided that the content and format is the same.
▪ The computer system is based on a really basic format of paper dolls.
▪ This is the pixel format in which remotely-sensed images are stored.
▪ Though the format has had to be changed because of rising costs, the event was nevertheless a great success.
▪ Usher confronts the slender boundary between deep love and intense hate within the format of a highly intellectual mystery.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both allow you to format your data to presentation quality and both provide charting facilities.
▪ Here you can copy files, list files in other directories and even format a floppy disk.
▪ The hard copy formatter may be required to format modules associated with several charge codes at the same time.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
format

format \format\ v. t. to set into a specific format; -- of printed matter or data recorded on a data soorage medium.

Syn: arrange.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
format

"arrange into a format," 1964, in reference to electronic computing, from format (n.). Related: Formatted; formatting.

format

1840, "shape and size" (of a book), via French format (18c.), ultimately from Modern Latin liber formatus "a book formed" in a certain shape and size, from past participle of formare "to form," from forma (see form (n.)). Extended to computers by 1955.

Wiktionary
format

n. 1 The layout of a publication or document. 2 (context hence English) The form of presentation of something. 3 (lb en radio) The type of programming that a radio station broadcasts; such as a certain genre of music, news, sports, talk, etc. 4 (context computing English) A file type. vb. 1 To create or edit the layout of a document. 2 Change a document so it will fit onto a different type of page. 3 (context computing English) To prepare a mass storage medium for initial use, erase any existing data in the process.

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WordNet
format

  1. n. the organization of information according to preset specifications (usually for computer processing) [syn: formatting, data format, data formatting]

  2. the general appearance of a publication

  3. [also: formatting, formatted]

format

  1. v. set (printed matter) into a specific format; "Format this letter so it can be printed out" [syn: 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; "Please format this disk before entering data!" [syn: initialize, initialise]

  4. [also: formatting, formatted]

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Wikipedia
Format

Format is related to form and most commonly refer to the shape or dimensions of pages in printing and page layout. Derivatives of that include:

  • Paper format, standard paper sizes such as American Letter and international A-format
    • Newspaper format, the size of the pages in newspapers, for example tabloid format
  • Text formatting, the typesetting of text elements
  • Film format, refers to size and shape as well as other characteristics of photographic film or film stock and for projected film such as motion pictures and slide film also of the projection

In computing it mostly refers to:

  • File format, particular way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file
    • Document file format, for storing documents on a storage media, especially for use by computer
    • Audio file format, for storing digital audio data on a computer system

In music it mostly refers to:

  • The reproduction medium of a recording, such as vinyl, tape, cassette, CD and later on digital download formats or most recently as streaming media
  • The format of a recording can also describe how it is compiled, irrespective of distribution medium, such as album, EP or single
Format (Common Lisp)

FORMAT is a function in Common Lisp that can produce formatted text using a format string similar to the printf format string. It provides more functionality than printf, allowing the user to output numbers in English, apply certain format specifiers only under certain conditions, iterate over data structures, and output in a tabular format. This functionally originates in MIT's Lisp Machine Lisp, where it was based on Multics ioa_.

Format (command)

In computing, format, a command-line utility included in 86-DOS, MS-DOS, IBM PC DOS and OS/2 and Microsoft Windows operating systems, carries out disk formatting. The command is also available in the DEC RT-11 operating system.

The command performs the following actions by default on a floppy disk, hard disk drive, solid state ( USB), or other magnetic medium (it will not perform these actions on optical media):

  1. clearing the FAT entries by changing them to 0x00
  2. clearing the FAT root directory by changing any values found to 0x00
  3. checking each cluster to see if it is good or bad and marking it as good or bad in the FAT

Optionally (by adding the /S, for "system" switch), Format can also install a Volume Boot Record. With this option, Format writes bootstrap code to the first sector of the volume (and possibly elsewhere as well). Format always writes a BIOS Parameter Block to the first sector, with or without the /S option.

Another option (/Q) allows for what Microsoft calls "Quick Format". With this option the command will not perform steps 2 and 3 above. Format /Q does not alter data previously written to the media.

Typing "Format" with no parameters in MS-DOS 3.2 or earlier would automatically, without prompting the user, format the current drive; however in MS-DOS 3.3 and later it would simply produce the error: "required parameter missing".

Any storage device must have its medium structured to be useful. This process is referred to as "creating a filesystem" in Unix, Linux, or BSD. Under these systems the command "[[mkfs]]" exists. It creates many kinds of file systems, including those used by DOS, Windows, and OS/2.

Format (magazine)

Format is a German weekly finance and business magazine published in Austria and headquartered in Vienna.

Format (album)

Format is a double-disc compilation album by English synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys. The album consists of B-sides from various singles released from 1996 to 2009 ( Bilingual through Yes, or " Before" to " Did You See Me Coming?"). It is their second B-sides album after Alternative (1995), which collected B-sides from the time of their first version of " Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" (1985) through " Yesterday, When I Was Mad" (1994).

The album's release was initially announced in November 2011, then officially on 19 December 2011 through the Pet Shop Boys' official website, offering it for pre-order. The album was released on 6 February 2012 in the UK, but was released earlier in various territories worldwide, including Australia, where it was released on 3 February. The album debuted at number 26 on the UK Albums Chart, selling 5,909 copies in its first week.

Format (photographic agency)

Format was an agency set up in 1983 to represent women photographers, with the aim of documenting the world from a different perspective. The agency operated for two decades, and its end, in 2003, was marked by an exhibition. In 2010, the National Portrait Gallery, London, showed a range of work by Format photographers.

The idea of an all-women photo agency was the conception of Maggie Murray and Val Wilmer, and Format's membership over the years also included Jackie Chapman, Anita Corbin, Melanie Friend, Sheila Gray, Paula Glassman, Judy Harrison, Pam Isherwood, Roshini Kempadoo, Jenny Mathews, Joanne O'Brien, Raissa Page, Brenda Prince, Ulrike Preuss, Mirium Reik, Karen Robinson, Paula Solloway, Mo Wilson and Lisa Woollett.

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Usage examples of "format".

He graphed the sleep and body temperature cycles together in a two-dimensional format called a raster plot.

I could to for you, sir, is upload the tapes from the VCR onto digital format in my camcorder, bung it across a flywire into the new iBook they gave us, chop up the relevant bits and crunch it down via the movie-making software, export it to a Jpeg file and email it straight to you.

The Kru was a great businessman, a rival of the company that made the Gates Format.

I could get you cheap labor to do your interface translation to the Neptunian formats?

I also have a large group of workers able to run the standardized routines to translate all interfaces to Neptunian formats.

As to how the neurophysins were produced and formatted to provide a coherent sensorium sequence, he had no idea.

The codex was much less bulky than the scroll, numbered pages made it a much handier reference format, it was less likely to be bruised in use, and it may well have been cheaper to produce.

In fact, by 1939 the only major power not to convert to the full-power semiautomatic format was Germany, where investigators were advocating a subcaliber compromise weapon.

We may be destined to have several formats and platforms, each of which is used for certain applications and types of content.

The proliferation of formats of digital content has made it necessary to develop a standard for archiving Internet objects.

The International Regulations on Sigint govern the actions of the multinational cyberspies, from the wording of their indoctrination oaths to the format of their intercept forms to their unique cryptospeak of codewords and covernames.

And between the niches, all of the same format and framed in good taste, photographs and engravings of celebrated physicians: Paracelsus, Virchow, Sauerbruch, and the Greek god of medicine leaning on a snake-entwined staff watch the guests at dinner.

He was leaving the interstate for a county road at the end of which squatted an impenetrable converted garage that was home to him, his priceless collection of three-thousand-plus headbanging classics in all formats, and five jumpy dogs.

But librarians failed to grasp the essential and substantive differences between the two formats.

Publishers invite writers to turn out novels based on pre-existing formats, franchised universes.