单词 | format |
释义 | formatn. 1. a. Shape and size of a book, e.g. octavo, quarto, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > size of book > [noun] volume1530 format1840 bulk1906 1840 T. Moore Mem. (1856) VII. 272 To bring out the ‘History’..in a better shape than that vile Lardnerian format. 1883 Sat. Rev. 5 May LV. 580 The book..is not undeserving of the pretty square format in which it appears. 1897 N.E.D. at Format Mod. Prospectus, Format and paper of present Prospectus. b. transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > [noun] hue971 shapec1050 form1297 casta1300 entailc1320 fashionc1320 featurec1325 tailc1325 suitc1330 figuringc1385 figure1393 makinga1398 fasurec1400 facea1402 makec1425 proportionc1425 figuration?a1475 protracture1551 physiognomy1567 set1567 portraiturea1578 imagerya1592 model1597 plasmature1610 figurature1642 scheme1655 morphosis1675 turn1675 plasma1712 mould1725 format1936 1936 O. S. Puckle tr. M. von Ardenne Television Reception ii. 42 The photograph shows the evenness of the illumination and the almost perfect rectangularity of the picture format. 1962 Listener 1 Feb. 224/1 The low relief and the often square format of the canvas also establish the pictures as firmly constructed panels. 1971 Daily Tel. 13 Oct. 6/7 The Brick Development Association proposed a single metric brick format which was adopted by the industry. It was slightly smaller than the imperial format: 225 mm × 112·5 mm × 75. 1971 D. Potter Brit. Elizabethan Stamps iii. 32 The first vertical format double-size stamp was issued. 2. a. A style or manner of arrangement or presentation; a mode of procedure. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > quality of being systematic > systematic arrangement > a system or scheme > formal or established dispensation1633 system1747 format1955 1955 Times 3 June 9/2 It is a tribute to the attractive format..that one does not realize that the report runs to 83 pages. 1957 N.Y. Times 29 Dec. iv. 3/2 It is so fundamental that the President must never appear before the American people in a minor role that the choice of this format is inexplicable. 1958 Spectator 1 Aug. 167/1 The principal performer..had to write the scripts herself, and when..she attempted to heed criticism and alter the format, she was told that the show, however bad, must go on. 1958 Listener 23 Oct. 648/2 Goldberg has developed from the sectional, chopped-up forms of de Kooning to a large centralized format. 1963 Amer. Speech 38 165 The slang items in this study are subdivided into two major groupings... The format followed supplies first the denotative word or phrase which was used to elicit the slang responses. Next, [etc.]. 1967 Times 6 Jan. 15/1 The usefulness of the I[ndustrial] R[eorganization] C[orporation] will be in its ability to help the two sides agree upon a new supply format. 1970 Daily Tel. 19 Nov. 14/4 This programme format, consisting of a report followed by a public meeting arranged for television, never seems to me satisfactory. 1971 Homes & Gardens Oct. 175/2 The noise generated by tape play-back systems..is the most serious drawback of the small cassette format. b. Computing. A particular arrangement of data or characters in a record, instruction, word, etc., in a form that can be processed or stored by a computer. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > data > [noun] > format format1955 SGML1983 Standard Generalized Markup Language1983 Rich Text Format1986 RTF1986 CD-R1988 rich text1988 Hypertext Markup Language1992 PDF1992 HTML1993 dynamic HTML1995 Extensible Markup Language1996 XML1996 MathML1997 1955 Computers & Automation Jan. 16/2 Logical operations of verifying format, insuring proper placement of significant characters,.. are all performed in less than ½ second. 1959 Jrnl. Assoc. Computing Machinery 6 325 One such typical program..might involve the conversion and rearrangement of data from the format in which it is stored on external units to a format compatible with internal use, e.g. the conversion of characters from decimal to binary form. 1963 B. F. Green Digital Computers in Res. v. 84 An associated format statement..specifies the precise manner in which the quantities appear in the input or output medium. 1968 Amer. Documentation Jan. 74/2 A format routine converts scanner output to element form for entry in the central data file. 1970 Nature 4 July 7/2 A scheme for coding rock and mineral names into a format suitable for computers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). formatv. transitive. To arrange or put into a format: used chiefly in connection with Computing (see format n. 2b). ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > data > give access [verb (transitive)] > format format1968 1968 Guardian 23 Sept. 9/2 We formatted this Top 100 Sounds, covering the top sounds both east and west of the Atlantic. 1969 Computers & Humanities 4 99 We format pages internally and then pass them to an output module tailored to a specific output device. 1970 A. Cameron et al. Computers & Old Eng. Concordances 48 A concordance, however, if formatted along appropriate lines..can shorten this mind-wearying labour tremendously. Derivatives ˈformatted adj. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > data > [adjective] > formatted formatted1965 1965 Adv. Computers VI. 7 These systems have come to be known as formatted file systems, since the input data are arranged into various formats for ease of storage and retrieval. ˈformatting n. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > data > [noun] > format > formatting formatting1964 society > communication > printing > publishing > editing for publication > [noun] > arranging or putting into format formatting1964 1964 CIS Gloss. Automated Typesetting (Composition Information Services, Calif.) 14 Book formatting. 1969 Computers & Humanities 4 98 Little or no composition control data or formatting punctuation is encoded with the input data. 1970 McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. & Technol. 160/1 The principal formatting function in the graphic arts is justification, which is frequently coupled with hyphenation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1840v.1964 |
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