file meaning

• Verb: file  fI(u)l
  1. Record in a public office or in a court of law
     "file for divorce"; "file a complaint"
     - register 
  2. Smooth with a file
     "file one's fingernails" 
  3. Proceed in line
     "The students filed into the classroom" 
  4. File a formal charge against
     - charge, lodge 
  5. Place in a container for keeping records
     "File these bills, please"
     - file away
  Noun: file  fI(u)l
  1. A set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together
     - data file 
  2. A line of persons or things ranged one behind the other
     - single file, Indian file 
  3. Office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order
     - file cabinet [US], filing cabinet 
  4. A steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal

  Sounds like: phial

  Derived forms: filed, files, filing

  See also: file in, file out, filer, filing

  Type of: accuse, criminate, enter, hand tool, impeach, incriminate, line, march, office furniture, process, put down, record, register, smooth, smoothen

  Encyclopedia: File

• 
  [Architecture]
  

  A metal (usually steel) tool having a rectangular, triangular, round, or irregular section and either tapering or of uniform width and thickness, covered on one or more of its surfaces with teeth or oblique ridges; used for abrading, reducing, or smoothing metal, wood, or other materials.

  

  file: nomenclature

• 
  [Business]
  noun, verb

  ■ noun [C]

  BOX FILE, LEVER ARCH FILE, LOG FILE, PAY AND FILE, PROGRAM FILE, RANK AND FILE, SIG FILE, SUSPENSION FILE, WEB LOG FILE, ZIP FILE

  1 (IT )

  a collection of information stored together in a computer, under a particular name:

  You'll find the document on the C-drive in a file called 'Zambia'.

  ❖ to access/copy/create/delete/save a file

  ◆ a computer/data/text file

  2

  a box or folded piece of card for keeping loose papers together and in order:

  Put that letter in the file marked 'Urgent'.

  A stack of files was waiting on my desk.

  3

  a file and the information it contains, for example about a particular person or subject:

  They have vast files on markets, clients and competitors.

  Your application will be kept on file.

  ❖ to have/keep/maintain a file (on sb/sth)

  ◆ to consult/have access to/read/refer to a file

  ■ verb

  1 [+ obj]

  to put and keep documents, etc. in a particular place and in a particular order so that you can find them easily:

  I filed the letters away in the drawer.

  The forms should be filed alphabetically.

  2 [+ obj or no obj]

  to present sth so that it can be officially recorded and dealt with:

  to file for bankruptcy

  to file a claim/a lawsuit

  The company filed its accounts last week.

  ⇨ LODGE

• 
  [Electronics]
  An organized collection of records related by a
  common format, data source, or application.
  
• 
  [Medicine]
  n
  1 : a tool usu. of hardened steel with cutting ridges for forming or smoothing surfaces (as of a tooth)
  2 : a narrow instrument for shaping fingernails with a fine rough metal or emery surface — file vt filed; fil·ing
  
• 
  [Computer]
  <file system> An element of data storage in a file system.
  
  The history of computing is rich in varied kinds of files and file systems, whether ornate like the Macintosh file system or deficient like many simple pre-1980s file systems that didn't have directories. However, a typical file has these characteristics:
  
  * It is a single sequence of bytes (but consider Macintosh resource forks).
  
  * It has a finite length, unlike, e.g., a Unix device.
  
  * It is stored in a non-volatile storage medium (but see ramdrive).
  
  * It exists (nominally) in a directory.
  
  * It has a name that it can be referred to by in file operations, possibly in combination with its path.
  
  Additionally, a file system may support other file attributes, such as permissions; timestamps for creation, last modification, and last access and revision numbers (a` la VMS).
  
  Compare: document.

• This card should be kept on file for reference ..
• This card should be kept on file for reference ..
• This card should be kept on file for reference ..
• This card should be kept on file for reference.
• We have all your particulars on file.
• Celia pulled a sheet from the file.
• Did you ever come across it in the files?
• files were located by using the card indexes.
• They had walked in single file down the path.
• I have read-only access to my bank files.

• "file" meaning in Chinese: n. 1.纸夹，文件夹。2.钉成册的文件，档案，卷宗，案卷，合订本。3.【计算机】外存贮器，存贮带。4.行列；【军...
• "file" meaning in Japanese: １file n. とじこみ, ファイル, 記録, 資料; 列; 〔電算〕 ファイル. 【動詞＋】 ◆He close...
• "file" meaning in Korean: noun, vt, 서류철, 철하기, 파일, 정리카드, 목록, 명부, 철하다, 퇴고하다
• "file" meaning in Russian: 1) напильник, слесарная пила Ex: to touch a piece up with ...
• "file" meaning in Arabic: n. إضبارة, ملف, طابور, مجموعة مصنفة, شخص ماكر
• "file" meaning in French: n. lime; dossier, classeur, fichier; file d'attente; lig...