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File   /faɪl/   Listen
File

noun
1.
A set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together.  Synonym: data file.
2.
A line of persons or things ranged one behind the other.  Synonyms: Indian file, single file.
3.
Office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order.  Synonyms: file cabinet, filing cabinet.
4.
A steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal.
verb
(past & past part. filed; pres. part. filing)
1.
Record in a public office or in a court of law.  Synonym: register.  "File a complaint"
2.
Smooth with a file.
3.
Proceed in line.
4.
File a formal charge against.  Synonyms: charge, lodge.
5.
Place in a container for keeping records.  Synonym: file away.



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"File" Quotes from Famous Books



... observed during the battle that when spotted by the enemy, delivering orders or busying about such duties as usually indicated some one in authority, the Spanish would fire whole volleys at an individual, this evidently with a view to demoralizing the rank and file ...
— The Colored Regulars in the United States Army • T. G. Steward
... to watch the procession—a file of soldiers, a cavalry troop, carriages and then—the carriage with spirited horses and gay accoutrements. It stopped with a jangle and a ...
— Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... black clouds split up like a rent cloth, and showed behind them, not Heaven, but the living fire of Hell. The thunder crashed out in sharp reports like file-firing at a review. With one accord the men ceased rowing and crouched down ...
— With Edged Tools • Henry Seton Merriman
... alley-way in single file, Murphy leading, Brennan next and John acting as a voluntary rear guard. The narrow alley, like the bottom of a canyon with walls of brick, was darker than the streets. In the middle of the block Murphy seemed to disappear into the earth. Then Brennan ...
— Spring Street - A Story of Los Angeles • James H. Richardson
... ceremonies of the Roman Church, is contemplated. Till the time of Doctor Barnard, the procession of the Montem was every two years, and on the first or second Tuesday in February. It consisted of something of a military array. The boys in the remove, fourth, and inferior forms, marched in a long file of two and two, with white poles in their hands, while the sixth and fifth form boys walked on their flanks as officers, and habited in all the variety of dress, each of them having a boy of the inferior forms, smartly ...
— The English Spy • Bernard Blackmantle


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