format

Meanings

Noun

• The layout of a publication or document.
• The form of presentation of something.
• The type of programming that a radio station broadcasts; such as a certain genre of music, news, sports, talk, etc.
• 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.

Related

Similar words

• reformat
• initialise, initialize

Origin

• Via French format and German Format, from New Latin liber fōrmātus, from fōrmō.