file
- file
- [[t]fa͟ɪl[/t]]
♦♦
files, filing, filed
1) N-COUNT A file is a box or a folded piece of heavy paper or plastic in which letters or documents are kept.
He sat behind a table on which were half a dozen files.
...a file of insurance papers.
2)
N-COUNT: oft N of/on
n A
file is a collection of information about a particular person or thing.
There was stuff in that file that was private between me and Dr Denny...
We already have files on people's tax details, mortgages and poll tax...
You must record and keep a file of all expenses.
Syn:
3) VERB If you file a document, you put it in the correct file.
[V n] A secretary can file papers as efficiently as a floppy disk can store them...
[V n] They are all filed alphabetically under author.
4) N-COUNT In computing, a file is a set of related data that has its own name.
5) VERB If you file a formal or legal accusation, complaint, or request, you make it officially.
[V n] A number of them have filed formal complaints against the police...
[V for n] I filed for divorce on the grounds of adultery a few months later.
6) VERB When someone files a report or a news story, they send or give it to their employer.
[V n] Catherine Bond filed that report for the BBC from Nairobi...
[V n] He had to rush back to the office and file a housing story before the secretaries went home.
Syn:
7) VERB When a group of people files somewhere, they walk one behind the other in a line.
[V prep/adv] She paused as the group of children filed out of the house...
[V prep/adv] Slowly, people filed into the room and sat down.
8) N-COUNT A file is a hand tool which is used for rubbing hard objects to make them smooth, shape them, or cut through them.
9) VERB If you file an object, you smooth it, shape it, or cut it with a file.
[V n] Manicurists are skilled at shaping and filing nails.
11)
PHRASE: v-link PHR, PHR after
v Something that is
on file or
on someone's
files is recorded or kept in a file or in a collection of information.
His fingerprints were on file in Washington...
We'll keep your details on file...
It is one of the most desperate cases on her files.
12)
PHRASE: PHR after
v A group of people who are walking or standing
in single file or
single file are in a line, one behind the other.
We were walking in single file to the lake.
Phrasal Verbs:
English dictionary.
2008.
:
Look at other dictionaries:
file — file … Dictionnaire des rimes
filé — filé … Dictionnaire des rimes
file — [ fil ] n. f. • av. 1464; de filer 1 ♦ Suite (de personnes, de choses) dont les éléments sont placés un par un et l un derrière l autre (à la différence du rang). File de gens. ⇒ colonne, procession. « Barca vit avancer un des miliciens, puis une … Encyclopédie Universelle
filé — file [ fil ] n. f. • av. 1464; de filer 1 ♦ Suite (de personnes, de choses) dont les éléments sont placés un par un et l un derrière l autre (à la différence du rang). File de gens. ⇒ colonne, procession. « Barca vit avancer un des miliciens,… … Encyclopédie Universelle
File — Aktuelle Version: 5.01 (30. April 2009) Betriebssystem: Multiplattform Kategorie: Remote Access Lizenz: GPL … Deutsch Wikipedia
file — Aktuelle Version 5.09 (16. September 2011) Betriebssystem Multiplattform Kategorie Remote Access Lizenz BSD Lizenz Deutschsprachig nein … Deutsch Wikipedia
file — 1 vb filed, fil·ing vt 1 a: to submit (a legal document) to the proper office (as the office of a clerk of court) for keeping on file among the records esp. as a procedural step in a legal transaction or proceeding filed a tax return a financing… … Law dictionary
File — (f[imac]l), n. [F. file row (cf. Pr., Sp., Pg., & It. fila), LL. fila, fr. L. filum a thread. Cf. {Enfilade}, {Filament}, {Fillet}.] 1. An orderly succession; a line; a row; as: (a) (Mil.) A row of soldiers ranged one behind another; in… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
File — (f[imac]l), n. [AS. fe[ o]l; akin to D. viji, OHG. f[=i]la, f[=i]hala, G. feile, Sw. fil, Dan. fiil, cf. Icel. [thorn][=e]l, Russ. pila, and Skr. pi[,c] to cut out, adorn; perh. akin to E. paint.] 1. A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
File 13 — is a euphemism for the trash can. The phrase is especially used in the U.S. military, and is less common outside of the United States. In the United Kingdom, for instance, the expression round file or circular file is more common (in reference to … Wikipedia
File — has several meanings:* Filing cabinet * File (tool) * A nail file * Filing (legal) * Filing (manufacturing process) * File (formation) Military term for a single column of men one in front of the other. See also Rank (formation) * File (chess) *… … Wikipedia
