File Meaning and Definition


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What is the definition File? What is its meaning in the dictionary? Related sentences, Synonyms, Words starting with File, Example sentences, Words ending with File, Derivations, Antonyms, How to pronounce and more...

File meaning

Word: File

How to pronounce: faɪl

Noun

Definitions:

1. A folder or box for holding loose papers that are typically arranged in a particular order for easy reference.

Example sentences: "A file of correspondence"

Transitive verb

Definitions:

1. Place (a document) in a cabinet, box, or folder in a particular order for preservation and easy reference.

Example sentences: "The contract, when signed, is filed"

Noun

Definitions:

1. A line of people or things one behind another.

Example sentences: "Plains Cree warriors riding in file down the slopes"

Verb

Definitions:

1. (of a group of people) walk one behind the other, typically in an orderly and solemn manner.

Example sentences: "The mourners filed into the church"

Noun

Definitions:

1. A tool with a roughened surface or surfaces, typically of steel, used for smoothing or shaping a hard material.

Example sentences: "It is possible to make the necessary notch with a file"

Transitive verb

Definitions:

1. Smooth or shape (something) with a file.

Example sentences: "When I have nothing else to do, I file my nails"

Noun

Definitions:

1. Pounded or powdered sassafras leaves used to flavor and thicken soup, especially gumbo.

Example sentences: "Likewise filé powder made from the dried leaves of the sassafras tree would be added during the final stages of cooking to give the gumbo a ‘stringy’ texture."


Synonyms:

archive

folder

library

filing cabinet

files

rasp

include file

lodge

register

string


Antonyms:

take


Derivations:

filing

filer

filed


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File in Other Languages...

Spanish: File

German: Datei

French: Fichier

Italian: File

Turkish: Dosya


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