File

[faɪl]

Definition

(noun.) a steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal.

(noun.) office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order.

(noun.) a set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together.

(noun.) a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other.

(verb.) place in a container for keeping records; 'File these bills, please'.

(verb.) record in a public office or in a court of law; 'file for divorce'; 'file a complaint'.

(verb.) smooth with a file; 'file one's fingernails'.

(verb.) proceed in line; 'The students filed into the classroom'.

Edited by Adrian--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) An orderly succession; a line; a row

(n.) A row of soldiers ranged one behind another; -- in contradistinction to rank, which designates a row of soldiers standing abreast; a number consisting the depth of a body of troops, which, in the ordinary modern formation, consists of two men, the battalion standing two deep, or in two ranks.

(n.) An orderly collection of papers, arranged in sequence or classified for preservation and reference; as, files of letters or of newspapers; this mail brings English files to the 15th instant.

(n.) The line, wire, or other contrivance, by which papers are put and kept in order.

(n.) A roll or list.

(n.) Course of thought; thread of narration.

(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.

(v. t.) To bring before a court or legislative body by presenting proper papers in a regular way; as, to file a petition or bill.

(v. t.) To put upon the files or among the records of a court; to note on (a paper) the fact date of its reception in court.

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

(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.

(n.) Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively.

(n.) A shrewd or artful person.

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

(v. t.) To smooth or polish as with a file.

(v. t.) To make foul; to defile.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Rasp.[2]. (Mil.) Row (of soldiers ranged one behind another), line, column.[3]. Bundle of papers.

v. a. [1]. Rasp.[2]. Place on file.[3]. Smooth, polish.

v. n. March in a file.

Typed by Lloyd

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Rasp, polish, smooth, finish, perfect, improve, refine

ANT:Roughen, jag, denticulate, acuminate, barb, cusp, notch

Checker: Nellie

Definition

n. a line or wire on which papers are placed in order: the papers so placed: a roll or list: a line of soldiers ranged behind one another: the number of men forming the depth of a battalion.—v.t. to put upon a file: to arrange in an orderly manner: to put among the records of a court: to bring before a court.—v.i. to march in a file.—n. File′-lead′er.—File off to wheel off at right angles to the first direction; File with to rank with to be equal to.—Single file Indian file of men marching one behind another.

n. a steel instrument with sharp-edged furrows for smoothing or rasping metals &c.: any means adopted to polish a thing as a literary style: a shrewd cunning person a deep fellow: a pickpocket.—v.t. to cut or smooth with or as with a file: to polish improve.—n. File′-cut′ter a maker of files.—adj. Filed polished smooth.—ns. File′-fish a fish of genus Balistes the skin granulated like a file; Fil′er one who files; Fil′ing a particle rubbed off with a file.

v.t. (Shak.) to defile pollute.

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