What does filé mean?

Definitions for filé
fɪˈleɪ, ˈfi leɪfilé

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. file, data filenoun

    a set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together

  2. file, single file, Indian filenoun

    a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other

  3. file, file cabinet, filing cabinetnoun

    office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order

  4. fileverb

    a steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal

  5. file, registerverb

    record in a public office or in a court of law

    "file for divorce"; "file a complaint"

  6. fileverb

    smooth with a file

    "file one's fingernails"

  7. fileverb

    proceed in line

    "The students filed into the classroom"

  8. charge, lodge, fileverb

    file a formal charge against

    "The suspect was charged with murdering his wife"

  9. file, file awayverb

    place in a container for keeping records

    "File these bills, please"

GCIDE

  1. Filenoun

    (computers) a collection of data on a digital recording medium treated as a unit for the purpose of recording, reading, storage, or indexing; -- such a file is typically accessible by computer programs by the use of a file name. The data may be of any type codable digitally, such as simple ASCII-coded text, complex binary-coded data, or an executable program, or may be itself a collection of other files.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. FILEnoun

    Etymology: file, French; filum, a thread, Latin.

    But let me resume the file of my relation, which this object of books, best agreeable to my course of life, hath a little interrupted. Henry Wotton.

    All records, wherein there was any memory of the king’s attainder, should be cancelled and taken off the file. Francis Bacon.

    The petitions being thus prepared, do you continually set apart an hour in a day to peruse those, and then rank them into several files, according to the subject matters. Francis Bacon.

    Th’ apothecary-train is wholly blind;
    From files a random recipe they take,
    And many deaths of one prescription make. Dryden.

    Our present musters grow upon the file
    To five and twenty thousand men of choice. William Shakespeare, H. IV.

    The valu’d file
    Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle. William Shakespeare, Macb.

    Those goodly eyes,
    That o’er the files and musters of the war
    Have glow’d like plated Mars, now bend, now turn
    Upon a tawny front. William Shakespeare, Ant. and Cleopatra.

    So saying, on he led his radiant files,
    Dazzling the moon. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. iv.

    The rough or coarse-toothed file, if it be large, is called a rubber, and is to take off the unevenness of your work which the hammer made in the forging: the bastard-toothed file is to take out of your work the deep cuts, or file-strokes, the rough file made: the fine-toothed file is to take out the cuts, or file-strokes, the bastard file made; and the smooth file is to take out those cuts, or file-strokes, that the fine file made. Joseph Moxon.

    Yet they had a file for the mattocks and for the coulters. 1 Sa. xiii. 21.

    The smiths and armourers on palfreys ride,
    Files in their hands and hammers at their side,
    And nails for loosen’d spears, and thongs for shields provide. John Dryden, Knight’s Tale.

  2. To Fileverb

    Etymology: from filum, a thread.

    From the day his first bill was filed he began to collect reports. Scriblerus Club , Mart. Scrib.

    They which would file away most from the largeness of that offer, do in more sparing terms acknowledge little less. Richard Hooker, b. v. s. 27.

    His humour is lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, and his eye ambitious. William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour Lost.

    Let men be careful how they attempt to cure a blemish by filing or cutting off the head of such an overgrown tooth. John Ray.

    For Banquo’s issue have I fil’d my mind,
    For them the gracious Duncan have I murder’d. William Shakespeare.

    His weeds, divinely fashioned,
    All fil’d and mangl’d. George Chapman, Iliads, b. xviii.

  3. To Fileverb

    To march in a file, not abreast, but one behind another.

    Etymology: from the noun.

    All ran down without order or ceremony, ’till we drew up in good order, and filed off. Tatler, №. 86.

    Did all the grosser atoms at the cell
    Of chance file off to form the pond’rous ball,
    And undetermin’d into order fall? Richard Blackmore, Creation.

Wikipedia

  1. filé

    Filé powder, also called gumbo filé, is a spicy herb made from the dried and ground leaves of the North American sassafras tree (Sassafras albidum).

ChatGPT

  1. file

    A file is a collection of data or information stored in a computer or digital device under a specific name and location. It can contain text, images, audio, video, software programs, or a combination of these. Files can be created, edited, opened, and saved, allowing users to organize and access their data efficiently. They can also be shared between users, transferred between devices, or uploaded to the internet. The particular format or type of a file is typically indicated by its file extension such as .txt, .jpg, .mp3 etc.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Filenoun

    an orderly succession; a line; a row

  2. Filenoun

    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

  3. Filenoun

    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

  4. Filenoun

    the line, wire, or other contrivance, by which papers are put and kept in order

  5. Filenoun

    a roll or list

  6. Filenoun

    course of thought; thread of narration

  7. Fileverb

    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

  8. Fileverb

    to bring before a court or legislative body by presenting proper papers in a regular way; as, to file a petition or bill

  9. Fileverb

    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

  10. Fileverb

    to march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another; -- generally with off

  11. Filenoun

    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

  12. Filenoun

    anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively

  13. Filenoun

    a shrewd or artful person

  14. Fileverb

    to rub, smooth, or cut away, with a file; to sharpen with a file; as, to file a saw or a tooth

  15. Fileverb

    to smooth or polish as with a file

  16. Fileverb

    to make foul; to defile

  17. Etymology: [OE. fulen, filen, foulen, AS. flan, fr. fl foul. See Foul, and cf. Defile, v. t.]

Wikidata

  1. File

    A file is a metalworking, woodworking and plastic working tool used to cut fine amounts of material from a workpiece. It most commonly refers to the hand tool style, which takes the form of a steel bar with a case hardened surface and a series of sharp, parallel teeth. Most files have a narrow, pointed tang at one end to which a handle can be fitted. A similar tool is the rasp. This is an older form, with simpler teeth. As they have larger clearance between teeth, these are usually used on softer, non-metallic materials. Related tools have been developed with abrasive surfaces, such as diamond abrasives or silicon carbide. Because of their similar form and function, these have also been termed 'files'.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. File

    fīl, n. a line or wire on which papers are placed in order: the papers so placed: a roll or list: a line of soldiers ranged behind one another: the number of men forming the depth of a battalion.—v.t. to put upon a file: to arrange in an orderly manner: to put among the records of a court: to bring before a court.—v.i. to march in a file.—n. File′-lead′er.—File off, to wheel off at right angles to the first direction; File with, to rank with, to be equal to.—Single file, Indian file, of men marching one behind another. [Fr. file—L. filum, a thread.]

  2. File

    fīl, n. a steel instrument with sharp-edged furrows for smoothing or rasping metals, &c.: any means adopted to polish a thing, as a literary style: a shrewd, cunning person, a deep fellow: a pickpocket.—v.t. to cut or smooth with, or as with, a file: to polish, improve.—n. File′-cut′ter, a maker of files.—adj. Filed, polished, smooth.—ns. File′-fish, a fish of genus Balistes, the skin granulated like a file; Fil′er, one who files; Fil′ing, a particle rubbed off with a file. [A.S. feól; Ger. feile; Dut. vijl.]

  3. File

    fīl, v.t. (Shak.) to defile, pollute.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. file

    Originally a string of soldiers one behind the other, though in the present formation of British troops, the length of the string has been reduced to two.

  2. file

    An old file. A somewhat contemptuous epithet for a deep and cunning, but humorous person.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. file

    A line of soldiers drawn up behind each other, in contradistinction to rank, which refers to men standing beside one another. The general term means two soldiers, consisting of the front and rear rank men. To file is to advance to or from any given points by files; as, to file to the front, etc. To file off, or to defile, is to wheel off by files from moving in a spacious front, and march in length. Flank file, is the extreme file on the right or left of a squadron or troop, battalion or company, etc. Indian files, a line of men advancing or retreating from either of the flanks, from the centre or from any proportion of a line in succession to one another.

  2. file

    In heraldry, is the mark of cadency which distinguishes the eldest son in his father’s lifetime. It consists of a horizontal stripe or fillet, with three points depending from it. When the mark of cadency itself is designated a file, its points are called labels.

Editors Contribution

  1. file

    A specific place for data and electronic documents.

    The goal is paperless and it's easily achieved with intelligent thought and organization of electronic documents.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 17, 2020  


  2. file

    A type of software.

    The file was from a specific organization who make free software as they wanted to ensure that everyone could afford the software.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 18, 2020  


  3. file

    A type of tool and product created and defined in various colors, materials, mechanisms, shapes, sizes and styles.

    A file can be used to plane wood or shape the fingernails.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 28, 2017  


  4. file

    A type of tool and product created and designed in various colors, materials, mechanisms, shapes, sizes and styles to shape a fingernail or toenail.

    You can buy a file to shape your fingernails or toenails.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 28, 2017  

Suggested Resources

  1. FILÉ

    What does FILÉ stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the FILÉ acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

  2. File

    File vs. Fill -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words File and Fill.

Entomology

  1. File

    the diagonal ridged vein near the base of the tegmina in crickets, used in stridulating: in general any structure wherever situated that serves the same purpose.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. FILE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, File is ranked #16881 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The File surname appeared 1,688 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname File.

    91% or 1,537 total occurrences were White.
    4.2% or 72 total occurrences were Black.
    1.9% or 33 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.4% or 25 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.6% or 11 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.5% or 10 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'filé' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1918

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'filé' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1526

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'filé' in Nouns Frequency: #555

  4. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'filé' in Verbs Frequency: #872

Anagrams for filé »

  1. life

  2. feil

  3. lief

  4. leif

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of filé in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of filé in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of filé in a Sentence

  1. Brendan Johnson:

    To be clear, we didn't file this complaint to send a message -- we filed a complaint because we want justice.

  2. China Construction America:

    Baha Mar Ltd's decision to file for bankruptcy protection is the direct result of its failure to secure adequate financing and its mismanagement of the design of Baha Mar resort project.

  3. Donald TrumpWhile Tlaib:

    Later on this month, I will be joining folks and advocates across the country to file the impeachment resolution to start the impeachment proceedings.

  4. Stann Kaplan:

    I actually filed for unemployment on Monday, when I did file, they asked me why I didn't file sooner. I just said I was just kind of waiting to see whether we get paid or whether this shutdown will end.

  5. Carl Lipo:

    The issue of water availability (or the lack of it) has often been mentioned by researchers who work on Rapa Nui/Easter Island, when we started to examine the details of the hydrology, we began to notice that freshwater access and statue location were tightly linked together. It wasnt obvious when walking around--with the water emerging at the coast during low tide, one doesnt necessarily see obvious indications of water. File photo - Statues at Anakena Beach, Easter Island, Chile. (Photo by Eric LAFFORGUE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Places without ahu/moai showed no freshwater, he added. The pattern was striking and surprising in how consistent it was. Researchers had already identified groundwater discharge in coastal areas as a key factor in the statues placement on Easter Islands coast. In the latest stage of the research, experts examined how the availability of freshwater in certain areas was linked to the methods and means of building the statues. EASTER ISLANDS ANCIENT CIVILIZATION WAS NOT DESTROYED BY WARFARE, EXPERTS SAY Around 900 statues, or moai, are dotted around Easter Island. Circa 1955: Two ancient statues of uncertain origin on Easter Island, in the South Pacific Ocean. (Photo by Richard Harrington/Three Lions/Getty Images).

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Translations for filé

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  • lêerAfrikaans
  • مِلَفّ, ملفArabic
  • игәүBashkir
  • напільнікBelarusian
  • файл, линия, регистрирам, картотекирам, папка, колона, пила, подавам, пиля, запомнямBulgarian
  • arxiu, llima, fitxerCatalan, Valencian
  • archiv, pilovat, soubor, pořadač, pilníkCzech
  • fil, arkivalie, kø, arkivereDanish
  • beantragen, archivieren, Akte, Kartei, Reihe, Feile, Antrag stellen, feilen, Datei, File, speichernGerman
  • αρχείο, συστοιχία, αρχειοθετώ, ρινίζω, στήλη, σειρά, λίμα, καταθέτω, λιμάρωGreek
  • dosiero, vico, fajlilo, fajliEsperanto
  • archivo, guardar, fila, lima, gestionar, limar, fichero, archivarSpanish
  • esitama, viilima, fail, liin, säilik, toimik, salvestama, arhiivima, kolonn, viilEstonian
  • پروندهPersian
  • viila, jättää hakemus, tiedosto, linja, tallentaa, nostaa, kansio, jono, arkistoida, jättää, viilata, hakeaFinnish
  • fichier, limer, limeFrench
  • triemWestern Frisian
  • lìomhScottish Gaelic
  • קוֹבֶץHebrew
  • फ़ाइलHindi
  • reszelő, adatállomány, megreszel, lereszel, fájl, reszelHungarian
  • նիշք, խարտոցArmenian
  • tölvuskrá, skráIcelandic
  • presentare, archivio, fila, lima, limare, archiviare, depositare, intentareItalian
  • ファイル, 綴じ込み, 列, 鑢, 保存, 提起, 保管, 申請, やすりを掛ける, やすりJapanese
  • ქლიბიGeorgian
  • 줄, 파일, 쓸다Korean
  • byla, :lt:byla, failasLithuanian
  • rinda, fails, ierinda, vīle, vīlētLatvian
  • поднесува, картотека, строј, еге, архивира, турпија, датотека, струга, податотека, колона, пила, регистрира, досие, низаMacedonian
  • jiffajlja, tillima, fajl, arkivju, ringiela, lima, tiffajlja, jillimaMaltese
  • fremmeNorwegian
  • archiveren, vijlen, bestand, file, dossier, rij, vijl, ordner, kolonne, opslaan, lijnDutch
  • arkivere, arkiv, lagre, fil, inngiNorwegian
  • opiłować, plik, opiłowywać, pilnikPolish
  • ficheiro, guardar, linha, arquivar, salvar, arquivo, fila, lima, limar, lixa, registrarPortuguese
  • fișier, pilăRomanian
  • папка, шлифовать, напильник, подпиливать, вереница, пилка, файл, дело, колоннаRussian
  • datoteka, turpija, fascikl, турпијаSerbo-Croatian
  • pilníkSlovak
  • datoteka, kolona, pila, pilitiSlovene
  • faeleSouthern Sotho
  • arkiv, fil, fila, linje, arkivera, köSwedish
  • ఆకురాయిTelugu
  • ไฟล์, แฟ้มThai
  • dosya, eğe, törpüTurkish
  • річ, напилок, пилкаUkrainian
  • tệp, cái giũa, tập tin, giũaVietnamese

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