Synonyms for format
ˈfɔr mætfor·mat

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1. formatverb

   Change a document so it will fit onto a different type of page.

   The radio station changed the format of its evening program.

   Synonyms:
   reformat

2. formatverb

   Synonyms:
   initialise, initialize

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1. format, formatting, data format, data formattingnoun

   the organization of information according to preset specifications (usually for computer processing)

   Synonyms:
   data formatting, formatting, data format

2. formatverb

   the general appearance of a publication

   Synonyms:
   data formatting, formatting, data format

3. format, arrangeverb

   set (printed matter) into a specific format

   "Format this letter so it can be printed out"

   Synonyms:
   arrange, initialise, fix up, set, coif, initialize, coiffe, do, coiffure, order, set up, dress, put, stage

4. formatverb

   determine the arrangement of (data) for storage and display (in computer science)

   Synonyms:
   initialize, initialise, arrange

5. format, initialize, initialiseverb

   divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data

   "Please format this disk before entering data!"

   Synonyms:
   initialize, initialise, arrange

Matched Categories

1. • Determine
   • Divide

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "format":

   formatting, formats, form, presentation, formatted, layout, submission, model, formula, version, pdf, form-factor, structure, shape, modality, forms, size

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1. Denny Hamlin:

   I'm no use to the team like this, in this win-and-you're - in format, there's no point in me being out there if I can't win.

2. Kathay Feng:

   You would have to go to each county, and each county would give it to you in a slightly different format, and you have to figure out how that all could be put together, we are doing our best to anticipate where there may be issues, but based on past experience from past decades, things will come up that we will have to -- not necessarily things that were anticipated.

3. Petro Poroshenko:

   Our approach is very simple we have nothing to negotiate ... We have the Minsk format and we need immediately just a ceasefire and the withdrawal of heavy artillery and weapons and tanks from the touchline, the solution is very simple - stop supplying weapons ... withdraw the troops and close the border. Very simple peace plan. If you want to discuss something different, it means you are not for peace, you are for war.

4. Her Grammy:

   I don't think that the industry has really any interest in changing their format that they've been doing, it makes money for them and it works for them.

5. Television Debra Birnbaum:

   Corden has made the ‘Late Late Show’ his own, he’s completely reinvented the format with inventive games, his singing and dancing, and of course his Carpool Karaoke series -- and then there’s that infectious laugh. It's impossible to resist.