formatted
USFAWR-mat-id/ˈfɔːɹ.mæt.ɪd/UKFAW-mat-id/ˈfɔː(ɹ).mæt.ɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of format. Use this form for something that already happened.
She formatted the document before printing it.
He formatted the new hard drive yesterday.
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- 2Arranged or laid out in a set, organized way.
Like a page where everything sits neatly in its place.
The neatly formatted report was easy to read.
Her notes were well formatted and simple to follow.
Similarstructured, organized, arranged, presented, styled
Oppositeunstructured, disorganized, messy
- 3Set up so that a disk or drive is ready to store data.
Like clean shelves set up and labeled, ready to hold things.
The formatted disk was ready to save her photos.
You can copy files onto a freshly formatted drive.
Oppositeunformatted, raw
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formatted is a form of format
format, verb: To set up how a document looks on the page. Full entry
- Forms
- formatformats he/she/itformatting -ing formformatted past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- format → formatted: double the t, add -ed
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