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.

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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 file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.
Tony Benn

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
Doug Larson

I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.
Rachel Maddow

The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information.
Ron Chernow

I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.
Nicole Kidman

Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again.
David Dinkins

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

And so every one of us in the FBI, I don't care if it's a file clerk someplace or an agent there or a computer specialist, understands that our main mission is to protect the public from another September 11, another terrorist attack.
Robert Mueller

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