Delete vs. Format — What's the Difference?

To cancel, strike out, or make impossible to be perceived

A plan for the organization and arrangement of a specified production.

To remove from a document or record

The material form or layout of a publication.

To remove (a file, for example) from a hard drive or other storage medium.

The arrangement of data for storage or display.

To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device.

A method for achieving such an arrangement.

To defeat or dominate.

To plan or arrange in a specified form

To kill or murder.

To divide (a disk) into marked sectors to allow for the storage of data.

(computing) A deletion.

To determine the arrangement of (data) for storage or display.

(recorded entertainment industry) A remainder of a music or video release.

The layout of a publication or document.

(uncountable) Delete

(hence) The form of presentation of something.

(computing) The delete character (U+007F or %7F).

(radio) The type of programming that a radio station broadcasts; such as a certain genre of music, news, sports, talk, etc.

To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.

(computing) A file type.

Remove or make invisible;

To create or edit the layout of a document.

Wipe out magnetically recorded information

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

Cut or eliminate;

(computing) To prepare a mass storage medium for initial use, erasing any existing data in the process.

The shape and size of a book or other printed publication; hence, its external form.

The arrangement of the parts of a printed page, such as text and graphics; as, text flowing around an illustration provides a more pleasing format; multiple columns are a more common format for large pages.

The pattern of organization of information in an electronic storage medium, such as the number and size of records, or the size, spacing, or separation symbols for fields in a record. A computer file, for example, may be in fixed-length format, in which each field or record occupies the same number of bytes, or in variable-length format, in which the lengths of fields or records varies. The number of formats are unlimited, being specifiable at will by programmers or in some cases by the users of programs.

The general organization, form, or plan for anything, such as an organized social, political, or entertainment event.

To set into a specific format; - of printed matter or data recorded on a data soorage medium.

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

The general appearance of a publication

Set (printed matter) into a specific format;

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

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