FORMAT
format
Noun
- The layout of a document.
- The form of presentation of something.
- The radio station changed the format of its evening program.
- A file type.
Verb
- To create or edit the layout of a document.
- Change a document so it will fit onto a different type of page.
- To prepare a mass storage medium for initial use, erasing any existing data in the process.
- I lost weeks of work when I inadvertently formatted my hard drive.
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