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Definition of File

1. Noun. A set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together.

2. Verb. Record in a public office or in a court of law. "File a complaint"

3. Noun. A line of persons or things ranged one behind the other.

4. Verb. Smooth with a file. "File one's fingernails"

5. Noun. Office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order.

6. Verb. Proceed in line. "The students filed into the classroom"

7. Noun. A steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal.

8. Verb. File a formal charge against. "The suspect was charged with murdering his wife"

9. Verb. Place in a container for keeping records. "They file the newspapers"; "File these bills, please"

Definition of File

1. n. An orderly succession; a line; a row

2. v. t. To set in order; to arrange, or lay away, esp. as papers in a methodical manner for preservation and reverence; to place on file; to insert in its proper place in an arranged body of papers.

3. v. i. To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another; -- generally with off.

4. n. A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc.

5. v. t. To rub, smooth, or cut away, with a file; to sharpen with a file; as, to file a saw or a tooth.

6. v. t. To make foul; to defile.

Definition of File

1. Noun. A collection of papers collated and archived together. ¹

2. Noun. (computing) An aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To commit official papers to some office ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To place in an archive in a logical place and order ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To store a file (gloss aggregation of data) on a storage medium such as a disc or another computer. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) To shape (an object) by cutting with a file (cutting tool). ¹

7. Verb. (intransitive) To cut with a file (cutting tool). ¹

8. Verb. (intransitive with ''for'' chiefly legal) To make a formal request for the benefit of an official status. ¹

9. Noun. A column of people one behind another, whether "single file" or in a large group with many files side by side. ¹

10. Noun. (chess) one of the eight vertical lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those which run from number to number). The analog horizontal lines are the ''ranks''. ¹

11. Verb. (intransitive) To move in a file. ¹

12. Noun. A hand tool consisting of a handle to which a block of coarse metal is attached, and used for removing sharp edges or for cutting, especially through metal ¹

13. Noun. (slang archaic) A man, guy, fellow; especially one known for being cunning or resourceful. ¹

14. Verb. (transitive) to smooth, grind, or cut with a file ¹

15. Verb. (archaic) to defile ¹

16. Verb. to corrupt ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of File

1. to arrange in order for future reference [v FILED, FILING, FILES] : FILEABLE [adj]

Medical Definition of File

1. 1. A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc. A file differs from a rasp in having the furrows made by straight cuts of a chisel, either single or crossed, while the rasp has coarse, single teeth, raised by the pyramidal end of a triangular punch. 2. Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively. "Mock the nice touches of the critic's file." (Akenside) 3. A shrewd or artful person. "Will is an old file spite of his smooth face." (Thackeray) Bastard file, Cross file, etc. See Bastard, Cross, etc. Cross-cut file, a file having two sets of teeth crossing obliquely. File blank, a steel blank shaped and ground ready for cutting to form a file. File cutter, a maker of files. Second-cut file, a file having teeth of a grade next finer than bastard. Single-cut file, a file having only one set of parallel teeth; a float. Smooth file, a file having teeth so fine as to make an almost smooth surface. Origin: AS. Feol; akin to D. Viji, OHG. Fila, fihala, G. Feile, Sw. Fil, Dan. Fiil, cf. Icel. L, Russ. Pila, and Skr. Pi to cut out, adorn; perh. Akin to E. Paint. To make ful; to defile. "All his hairy breast with blood was filed.Spenser." "For Banquo's issue have I filed mind.Shak." Origin: OE. Fulen, filen, foulen, AS. Flan, fr. Fl foul. See Foul, and cf. Defile, v.t. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of File

filatures filazer filazers filberd filberds filbert filberts filch filched filcher

filchers filches filching filchingly filchings file (current term) file-card file-drawer problem file-drawer problems file allocation table

file allocation tables file away file cabinet file cabinets file card file clerk file down file extension file extensions file folder

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