file
file is a 4-letter English word with 25 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An orderly succession; a line; a row. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. An orderly succession; a line; a row
- noun. A row of soldiers ranged one behind another; -- in contradistinction to rank, which designates a row of soldiers standing abreast; a number consisting the depth of a body of troops, which, in the ordinary modern formation, consists of two men, the battalion standing two deep, or in two ranks.
- noun. An orderly collection of papers, arranged in sequence or classified for preservation and reference; as, files of letters or of newspapers; this mail brings English files to the 15th instant.
- noun. The line, wire, or other contrivance, by which papers are put and kept in order.
- noun. A roll or list.
- noun. Course of thought; thread of narration.
- transitive verb. To set in order; to arrange, or lay away, esp. as papers in a methodical manner for preservation and reverence; to place on file; to insert in its proper place in an arranged body of papers.
- transitive verb. To bring before a court or legislative body by presenting proper papers in a regular way; as, to file a petition or bill.
- transitive verb. To put upon the files or among the records of a court; to note on (a paper) the fact date of its reception in court.
- intransitive verb. To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another; -- generally with off.
- noun. A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc.
- noun. Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively.
- noun. A shrewd or artful person.
- transitive verb. To rub, smooth, or cut away, with a file; to sharpen with a file; as, to file a saw or a tooth.
- transitive verb. To smooth or polish as with a file.
- transitive verb. To make foul; to defile.
- noun. a steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal
- noun. office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order
- noun. a set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together
- noun. a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other
- verb. file a formal charge against
"The suspect was charged with murdering his wife"
- verb. place in a container for keeping records
"File these bills, please"
- verb. record in a public office or in a court of law
"file for divorce"
"file a complaint"
- verb. smooth with a file
"file one's fingernails"
- verb. proceed in line
"The students filed into the classroom"
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Common word forms
filed, filer, files, filing, fileable
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