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Definition of File

File An orderly succession; a line; a row 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. 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. The line, wire, or other contrivance, by which papers are put and kept in order. A roll or list. Course of thought; thread of narration. 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. To bring before a court or legislative body by presenting proper papers in a regular way; as, to file a petition or bill. 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. To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another; -- generally with off. 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. Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively. A shrewd or artful person. To rub, smooth, or cut away, with a file; to sharpen with a file; as, to file a saw or a tooth. To smooth or polish as with a file. To make foul; to defile. Related Definitions: Abrading, Abreast, After, Among, An, And, Another, Anything, Are, Arrange, Arranged, Artful, As, Away, Battalion, Before, Behind, Body, Bring, But, By, Bill, Chisel, Classified, Collection, Consisting, Contradistinction, Contrivance, Course, Court, Cut, Cutting, Date, Deep, Defile, Depth, Employed, English, Fact, File, For, Formation, Foul, Generally, Having, In, Indentation, Insert, Instant, Instrument, Kept, Lay, Legislative, Line, List, Literally, Made, Mail, Make, Manner, March, Men, Methodical, Modern, Narration, Not, Note, Number, Of, Off, On, One, Or, Order, Orderly, Ordinary, Other, Paper, Person, Petition, Place, Polish, Presenting, Preservation, Proper, Put, Ranged, Rank, Rasp, Reception, Reference, Regular, Reverence, Roll, Row, Rub, Saw, Sequence, Set, Sharpen, Shrewd, Smooth, Smoothing, Standing, Steel, Succession, Teeth, The, This, Thought, Thread, To, Tooth, Two, Upon, Used, Way, Which, Wire, With, Wood

File Quotations He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. Albert Einstein If you've got a case that's due out or you have a trial starting Monday morning, and you haven't read the file, you haven't done the homework and done the research, you ought to be in there Saturday and if necessary Sunday. That goes with the territory. Judge M. Lane I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not. Donna Leon It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge. James Levine If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true. Anthony Holden

File Translations file in Afrikaans is tou file in Danish is fil file in Dutch is bestand, dossier file in Finnish is viilata, rivi file in German is Feile, Kartei, Datei, Briefordner, Reihe file in Italian is lima, ordinare, deporre, documento file in Latin is lima file in Norwegian is arkiv, fil, kartotek file in Portuguese is fila, lima file in Spanish is reglamentar, lima, expediente, turno, archivador file in Swedish is fil, mapp, arkivera, fila

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