FILE


Meaning of FILE in English

1. n. & v.

--n.

1. a folder, box, etc., for holding loose papers, esp. arranged for reference.

2 a set of papers kept in this.

3 Computing a collection of (usu. related) data stored under one name.

4 a series of issues of a newspaper etc. in order.

5 a stiff pointed wire on which documents etc. are impaled for keeping.

--v.tr.

1. place (papers) in a file or among (esp. public) records.

2 submit (a petition for divorce, an application for a patent, etc.) to the appropriate authority.

3 (of a reporter) send (a story, information, etc.) to a newspaper.

Phrases and idioms:

filing cabinet a case with drawers for storing documents.

Derivatives:

filer n.

Etymology: F fil f. L filum thread 2. n. & v.

--n.

1. a line of persons or things one behind another.

2 (foll. by of) Mil. a small detachment of men (now usu. two).

3 Chess a line of squares from player to player (cf. RANK(1)).

--v.intr. walk in a file.

Phrases and idioms:

file off (or away) Mil. go off by files.

Etymology: F file f. LL filare spin or L filum thread 3. n. & v.

--n. a tool with a roughened surface or surfaces, usu. of steel, for smoothing or shaping wood, fingernails, etc.

--v.tr.

1. smooth or shape with a file.

2 elaborate or improve (a thing, esp. a literary work).

Phrases and idioms:

file away remove (roughness etc.) with a file. file-fish any fish of the family Ostracionidae, with sharp dorsal fins and usu. bright coloration.

Derivatives:

filer n.

Etymology: OE fil f. WG

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.