Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
The visual style of a document, including fonts, borders, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The code in a markup language which determines a document's format.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
present participle and gerund of format
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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noun
the organization of information according to preset specifications (usually for computer processing)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: format, data format, data formatting
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: information, info
Narrower terms: high-level formatting, low-level formatting, initialization, initialisation
History
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Across languages
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
