FILE


Meaning of FILE in English

(~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.

N-COUNT

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.

N-COUNT

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.

N-COUNT

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

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