Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: file
IPA transcription: [f'aɪl]
Pronunciations of file
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: file, data_file
    Meaning: a set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together
  • Synonyms: file, single_file, Indian_file
    Meaning: a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other
  • Synonyms: file, file_cabinet, filing_cabinet
    Meaning: office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order
  • Synonyms: file
    Meaning: a steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: file, register
    Meaning: record in a public office or in a court of law; "file for divorce"; "file a complaint"
  • Synonyms: file
    Meaning: smooth with a file; "file one's fingernails"
  • Synonyms: file
    Meaning: proceed in line; "The students filed into the classroom"
  • Synonyms: charge, lodge, file
    Meaning: file a formal charge against; "The suspect was charged with murdering his wife"
  • Synonyms: file, file_away
    Meaning: place in a container for keeping records; "File these bills, please"
Usage examples
  • A file of men, a rattling volley, and the debt of justice was paid.
  • Following him, in single file, come the rest of the Master Draggers.
  • But this foot is a most wonderful boring tool, fitted with a hard file.
  • And left file! he takes the same road to join the others with all his party.
  • Chalk, sandstone, or oak, it is all the same to the Piddock, which rasps them away with its file.
  • "I'll look up a file of newspapers, and run my eye over the details of the case," said the detective.
  • We walked in single file, headed by the hunter, who ascended by narrow tracks, where two could not have gone abreast.
  • Shattuck advanced with certainty, and the others, true to their training, came behind him in single file, and without noise.
  • This piece of metal, when nicely fitted into a file handle, will answer all the purposes of the bluing pan and presents quite a neat appearance.
  • She fastens to her spinnerets and dangles, by way of a bag of eggs, a ball of cork polished with my file, a paper pellet, a little ball of thread.
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