English to English noun
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a set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together | | source: wordnet30
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a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other | | source: wordnet30
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office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order | | source: wordnet30
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a steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal | | source: wordnet30
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An orderly succession; a line; a row | | source: webster1913
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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. | | source: webster1913 verb
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record in a public office or in a court of law | | Example: file for divorce file a complaint
source: wordnet30
8 |
smooth with a file | | Example: file one's fingernails
source: wordnet30
9 |
proceed in line | | Example: The students filed into the classroom
source: wordnet30
10 |
file a formal charge against | | Example: The suspect was charged with murdering his wife
source: wordnet30
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place in a container for keeping records | | Example: File these bills, please
source: wordnet30
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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. | | source: webster1913
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To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another; -- generally with off. | | source: webster1913
14 |
To rub, smooth, or cut away, with a file; to sharpen with a file; as, to file a saw or a tooth. | | source: webster1913
15 |
To make foul; to defile. | | source: webster1913
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