transcription, транскрипция: [ faɪl ]
( files, filing, filed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
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.
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2.
A file is a collection of information about a particular person or thing.
We already have files on people’s tax details, mortgages and poll tax...
You must record and keep a file of all expenses.
N-COUNT : oft N of/on n
3.
If you file a document, you put it in the correct file.
They are all filed alphabetically under author.
VERB : V n
4.
In computing, a file is a set of related data that has its own name.
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5.
If you file a formal or legal accusation, complaint, or request, you make it officially.
A number of them have filed formal complaints against the police...
I filed for divorce on the grounds of adultery a few months later.
VERB : V n , V for n
6.
When someone files a report or a news story, they send or give it to their employer.
Catherine Bond filed that report for the BBC from Nairobi...
VERB : V n
7.
When a group of people files somewhere, they walk one behind the other in a line.
Slowly, people filed into the room and sat down.
VERB : V prep / adv
8.
A file is a hand tool which is used for rubbing hard objects to make them smooth, shape them, or cut through them.
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9.
If you file an object, you smooth it, shape it, or cut it with a file.
Manicurists are skilled at shaping and filing nails.
VERB : V n
10.
see also nail file , rank and file
11.
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.
PHRASE : v-link PHR , PHR after v
12.
A group of people who are walking or standing in single file are in a line, one behind the other.
We were walking in single file to the lake.
PHRASE : PHR after v