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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



... curious of the future, and ready for argument upon the present; he is, in short, a highly civilized being, who consents, for a time, to inhabit the back-woods, and who penetrates into the wilds of a New World with the Bible, an axe, and a file of newspapers. ...
— American Institutions and Their Influence • Alexis de Tocqueville et al
... in single file over the hill, we returned to the kitchen. Grandmother began to make the icing for a chocolate cake, and Otto again filled the house with the exciting, expectant song of the plane. One pleasant thing about this time was that everybody talked more than usual. ...
— My Antonia • Willa Sibert Cather
... made their way towards the brilliant group of leading Liberals of which Mr. Blapton was the centre, assuming an almost Whig-like expression and bearing to mask the fires within, and had then suddenly accosted him. It was one of those great occasions when the rank and file of the popular party is privileged to look upon Court dress. The ministers and great people had come on from Buckingham Palace in their lace and legs. Scarlet and feathers, splendid trains and mysterious ribbons and stars, gave an agreeable ...
— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
... moment that she could speak privately to the professor. And he, as he took his seat in the buckboard, remembered it and smiled contentedly, never suspecting that the youngest brother, riding beside him, had secretly planned to file at once a claim on the quarter-section that included the little canyon so that the red-gray rock should be ...
— The Biography of a Prairie Girl • Eleanor Gates
... the less hostile. He rejected Elizabeth's inducements to him to live on terms of amity with a rival in all essential respects infinitely his superior. Persuaded that she could not dispense with himself, he persisted in putting her to her option between them. The rank and file at Elizabeth's Court had a keen scent for their Sovereign's bias. They foresaw the inevitable end, though they antedated by several years the actual catastrophe. In 1587 Arabella Stuart, a girl of twelve, was at Court. She supped at Lord Burleigh's. The other ...
— Sir Walter Ralegh - A Biography • William Stebbing


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