Definitions for file

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file file

Spelling: [fahyl]

IPA: /faɪl/

File is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in file (efil).

Definitions for file

noun

1. a folder, cabinet, or other container in which papers, letters, etc., are arranged in convenient order for storage or reference.
2. a collection of papers, records, etc., arranged in convenient order:
3. Computers. a collection of related data or program records stored on some input/output or auxiliary storage medium:
4. a line of persons or things arranged one behind another (distinguished from rank1 (def 10.)).
5. Military. a person in front of or behind another in a military formation. one step on a promotion list.
6. one of the vertical lines of squares on a chessboard.
7. a list or roll.
8. a string or wire on which papers are strung for preservation and reference.
9. a long, narrow tool of steel or other metal having a series of ridges or points on its surfaces for reducing or smoothing surfaces of metal, wood, etc.
10. a small, similar tool for trimming and cleaning fingernails; nail file.
11. British Slang. a cunning, shrewd, or artful person.
12. a powder made from the ground leaves of the sassafras tree, used as a thickener and to impart a pungent taste to soups, gumbos, and other dishes.

Idioms

1. on file, arranged in order for convenient reference; in a file:

verb (used with object)

1. to place in a file.
2. to arrange (papers, records, etc.) in convenient order for storage or reference.
3. Journalism. to arrange (copy) in the proper order for transmittal by wire. to transmit (copy), as by wire or telephone:
4. to reduce, smooth, or remove with or as if with a file.
5. to defile; corrupt.

verb (used without object)

1. to march in a file or line, one after another, as soldiers:
2. to make application:

Origin of file

1425-75; late Middle English filen Middle French filer to string documents on a thread or wire, Old French: to wind or spin thread Late Latin fīlāre, verbal derivative of Latin fīlum thread,

Examples for file

A complete list of the changes made is appended at the end of the file.

Crooks can use it to apply for credit, file fake claims with insurers, or buy drugs and medical equipment that can be resold.

During the night he managed to file the brass of his bedstead.

Several dozen ogres were sitting around the cave in rank and file.

She also told TMZ that she plans to file a civil suit against Cosby.

With 3D printing you can continue to use the file and update.

Your browser must support the Unicode character set to use this file.

Now, the foundation has presidents, boards, and accountants, and their job is to file.

If you were envied, why should you sharpen envy, and file up its teeth to an edge?

Did he go to the authorities to file a report against the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel?