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