File (Noun)
Meaning 1
Office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order.
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Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The office supply cabinet was located next to a tall file for storing documents.
- She labeled the folders and placed them neatly inside the file on her desk.
- The heavy-duty file was designed to hold thousands of pages of documents.
- After organizing the paperwork, he slid the folders back into the file and closed the drawer.
- The file cabinet was old and rusted, but it still served its purpose of keeping important papers in order.
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Meaning 2
A set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together.
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 3
A line of persons or things ranged one behind the other.
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
Examples
- A long file of ants marched in line across the kitchen counter.
- The teacher instructed the children to stand in a single file before boarding the bus.
- The runners were told to maintain a file as they rounded the curve.
- The audience entered the auditorium in a double file to minimize congestion.
- The motorcycle riders maintained a file to conserve fuel on the long trip.
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Meaning 4
A steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- He took the rusty bike frame outside to clean up the joints with a wire file and a handle.
- It can only make longitudinal saw-cuts since all standard type B jig-blade ends together serve mainly also flat with for flusher along close run other full the as narrow slot left right by common or file.
- Rub the file gently over the scratch, working in the same direction as the wood grain.
- A half-round file is a cross between a flat file and a round file, with a flat bottom and curved top.
- In workshop practice, most plain or plain-backed coarse tools files for the final operation would be followed in order by finer variations.