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File

noun
1.
A set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together.  Synonym: data file.
2.
A line of persons or things ranged one behind the other.  Synonyms: Indian file, single file.
3.
Office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order.  Synonyms: file cabinet, filing cabinet.
4.
A steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal.
verb
(past & past part. filed; pres. part. filing)
1.
Record in a public office or in a court of law.  Synonym: register.  "File a complaint"
2.
Smooth with a file.
3.
Proceed in line.
4.
File a formal charge against.  Synonyms: charge, lodge.
5.
Place in a container for keeping records.  Synonym: file away.



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"File" Quotes from Famous Books



... all sorts and conditions, our boat-mates: a few famous throughout the world, as the player Mounet-Sully, the painter Benjamin Constant, the prose poet Paul Arene; many famous throughout France; and even in the rank and file few who had not raised themselves above the multitude in one or another of the domains of art. And all of them were bound together in a democratic brotherhood, which yet—because the absolute essential to membership in it was genius—was an artistic aristocracy. With their spiritual honours had ...
— The Christmas Kalends of Provence - And Some Other Provencal Festivals • Thomas A. Janvier

... miles of rice-fields, white-speckled with paper-winged shafts which are arrows of prayer. Always the voice of frogs—a sound as of infinite bubbling. Always the green range on the left, the purple on the right, fading westward into a tall file of tinted spectres which always melt into nothing at last, as if they were made of air. The monotony of the scene is broken only by our occasional passing through some pretty Japanese village, or by ...
— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan - First Series • Lafcadio Hearn

... direction than in any other. Men early learnt to recognize this peculiarity, and to take advantage of it in attacking rock. With their stone hammers they struck in straight lines, always aiming at the same points, and then, probably with the help of a fierce file, they succeeded in breaking off fragments. They also employed wedges of wood, which they drove into natural or artificial fissures, pouring water on to this wedge again and again. The wood became swollen with the damp, and in course of time a block of stone would be detached. ...
— Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples • The Marquis de Nadaillac

... bow they quiver and flash Where the clouds send their cavalry down! Rank and file by the million the rain-lancers dash Over mountain and river and town: Thick the battle-drops fall—but they drip not in blood; The trophy of war is the green fresh bud: Oh, the rain, ...
— The Evolution of Expression Vol. I • Charles Wesley Emerson

... become incorporated in a confederation of the several States and Colonies of South Africa under the British Crown. There were probably others among the leaders who shared this purpose; but some did not, and here was a question which would seem to have divided the chiefs as it divided the rank and file. A rising there was to be. But under what flag? This vital point was left unsettled, and at the last moment it ...
— Impressions of South Africa • James Bryce


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