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file English

Meaning file meaning

What does file mean?
Definitions in simple English

file Noun

— A file is a set of papers or records on a specific issue, person, etc. The letter should be in the file on the Herzog problem. — A file is a set of information that can be opened, changed, and saved by a computer program. My computer won't read the Word file you e-mailed me last night. — A file is a place to keep papers organised. Can you put this receipt in the file? — A file is a tool with rough sides that you rub against something to make it smooth. — A file is a line of people.

file Verb

— If you file papers or documents, you put them away in an organised way in one place. I filed the letter under "t" for taxes. — If you file a report or a story, you submit it to your employer or editor. What time did you file that story about the car crash? — If you file a complaint, you make an official complaint. — If people file somewhere, they go there in a line. — If you file something, you rub it with a file to make it smooth. She went to the store for a manicure, which involves filing and polishing the nails.

file

— verb record in a public office or in a court of law file for divorce file a complaint — noun a set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together — verb smooth with a file file one's fingernails — verb proceed in line The students filed into the classroom — verb (= charge) file a formal charge against The suspect was charged with murdering his wife — verb place in a container for keeping records File these bills, please — 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 line of persons or things ranged one behind the other

Synonyms file synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as file?

file English » English

row line rasp rank folder dossier column rub chafe turn queue mash submit sharpen register lodge archive range filing cabinet document binder string series record polish hand in file cabinet data file charge single file scrape present portfolio list file away filch computer file write train store sequence save run put down loose-leaf binder leave hone grind grate filing

File English » English

file data set data file computer file

Topics file topics

What do people use file to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Language

Information
Daily life Adornment

Care for the fingernails
Language and thought Communication Say Criticize

Complain
Language and thought Communication Reading and writing

Written material
Social behavior Government Government functions

Police
Social behavior Conflict War Military organization

Soldier
Daily life Adornment

Ritual scar

  • What words refer to filing the teeth?
    file teeth
Physical actions Move

Accompany

Conjugation file conjugation

How do you conjugate file?

file · verb

Examples file examples

How do I use file in a sentence?

Simple sentences

If it annoys you so much, file a complaint.
Put it in the file.
Tom decided to file a complaint against his neighbours.
In which folder did you save the file?
Correct the mistake and return the file to Mr Luxemburg.
Send it to me as a compressed file.
The file cabinet drawers are open.
Please delete this file.
I hear their marriage is on the rocks and they'll probably file for divorce soon.
She had good reason to file for a divorce.
When I try to listen to music with media player there's an error and I can't play the file.
Since I don't have the software to open the attached file, I can't open it. Please send it again in another format.
Please open the file circled in red with a text editor.
As I don't have the software that matches the attachment, I cannot open the file. Please resend it in another format.
The file is corrupt.
I'm trying to break the password of this file.
The configuration file for your database server is located in this directory.
What is the file extension?

Movie subtitles

I'll file that report.
Okay, but she has to file a claim soon for it to hold.
Adored Farandola, try to run away with this file.
File a report at the nearest police station.
Keep in single file.
Are the documents in this file just a joke?
This file's not my problem! Who do they take me for?
Many of you here tonight knew me. as an SA man. marching in the rank and file. in the first years of the Movement.
Do you think a nail file would help?
Give me that nail file.
He was coming to Dawson City to file his claim.
I'm sorry, Shorty, but you got to file a claim.
So we'll file instead.
Maybe if I give money to the son of a ranking file.
How did that son of a bitch get the file?
Bring the Hindau file.
What a sight you'll be. Give me that nail file.
Prisoners in escort, into file.
Prisoner and escort, into file.
We're gonna file suit tomorrow.
If you're going to file suit tomorrow. I'll have to move out of here to prove that we're alienated.
Look, you don't want me to file that suit, do you?
Well, then I simply file a charge against this fine Mr Finsbury.
If you want back - though that never happened before - then your husband has to file an application first.
You're going to file the numbers off the engine.
Did you ever file an income tax return?
I can file my nails with it.
This file's not my problem!
If you're going to file suit tomorrow.
Upon arrival, he led me into his office. gave me a seat. sat himself down and opened my file, explaining that. with the shop sold and the burials paid for. I would still have 18,000 francs.
Seems like all you got to do to get a man's claim away from him is to file an affidavit.
Look, Helen, it's impossible for anybody to file an honest claim to this property.
Hey, Danny, get me the file on Jacqueline Gibson, will you?

News and current affairs

No secret file is being used to secure a guilty verdict.
But, just as stunningly, rank-and-file members of the US House of Representatives have rejected it - at least for now.
In an era of evaporated pensions and benefits for the rank and file, piggish pay packets for CEO's have led a cynical public to wonder where big business has gone wrong.
Remuneration of company bosses now reaches 300 to 500 times the average salary of rank-and-file employees, up from 40 to one for the century and a half before 1980.
It appears from press reports that the West finally gave the green light to the Egyptian military to overthrow Morsi, arrest the Muslim Brotherhood's leadership, and repress the Islamist rank and file.
Later, after his dismissal from his post, that same civil aviation chief confessed that Armenian President Robert Kocharyan had advised him to file his lawsuit.
Purchases of second homes for pleasure were confined to the rich, and thus did not seem quite so much of a conversation topic for the rank-and-file business people that I meet at such conferences.
For example, companies increasingly augment standard wage packages with stock options, even for rank-and-file employees.
The Left's rank and file is faceless, with Communists, former guerrillas, and other radical fellow travelers marching side-by-side with a moderate majority of Social and Christian Democrats.
Both file detailed and frequent reports with government regulators.
But while the officer corps may be steadfast defenders of secular rule, the rank and file reflects Pakistani society.
In almost all previous final status negotiations, Israel has agreed to accept a certain number of refugees as part of its contribution to help close this historical file.
Already, Facebook users can export all of their personal data as a zip file simply by clicking a link on their profiles.
Virtually all of us have tissue on file somewhere.
A related practice has developed in the United States, where victims of human-rights crimes committed elsewhere file civil suits against immigrant perpetrators.
This means that anyone residing in Austria can file a complaint to the European Court for Human Rights, whose judgements are binding on the government.
Instead, women who go to the police are urged not to file a complaint.
Eritreans could file applications in Khartoum for asylum in Sweden, Germany, or the United Kingdom. Syrians in Cairo or Beirut could do the same.
He set up Web sites to help them exchange medical information, attract media attention, and file lawsuits demanding compensation.
Local courts, whose judges are appointed and paid by the local government, often simply refuse to file cases that challenge official decisions.
It may surprise non-Muslims, but some Nigerian Christians prefer to file their cases in Sharia courts because of their speed, fairness, and relative unconcern with legal technicalities.
The Egyptian high command did not need to worry that rank-and-file soldiers would disobey orders, because they were protecting the citizenry.
Oddly, it was Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu who, by requesting that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state, reopened the 1948 file.

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