file
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /faɪl/
ipa: [faɪ̯(ə)ɫ]
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: files
Etymology: From Old French fil (“thread”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”). Doublet of filum.
Senses: examples: text: It is upon a file with the duke's other letters.
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
text: We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files
We'd like to help you learn to help yourself
ref: 1968 April 5, Paul Simon, “Mrs. Robinson”, in Bookends, performed by Simon & Garfunkel:
glosses: A collection of papers collated and archived together.
examples: text: a file of all the gentry
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
glosses: A roll or list.
examples: text: Let me resume the file of my narration.
ref: 1642, Henry Wotton, A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villiers:
glosses: A course of thought; a thread of narration.
examples: text: He had created a file for coding to design a new product.
text: I'm going to delete these unwanted files to free up some disk space.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name.
examples: text: Many homes now have double-file kitchens.
glosses: A row of modular kitchen units and a countertop, consisting of cabinets and appliances below (dishwasher) and next to (stove/cooker) a countertop.
examples: text: The Nonfiction Vertical File: […]I spent my university years working in the library at the Maritime School of Social Work. One of my responsibilities was to keep the library's vertical file up to date. The vertical file was a cabinet full of current newspaper and magazine clippings on topics of interest to the students and faculty of the school.
ref: 2010, Beth Critchley Charlton, Englaging the DisEngaged, page 71:
glosses: Clipping of file cabinet.
Synonyms: sense: collection
word: document
sense: collection
word: paper
Hyponyms: sense: Hyponyms of file (etymology 1)
word: accordion file
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word: audio file
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word: barrel file
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word: batch file
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word: binary file
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word: box file
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word: cabinet file
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word: casefile
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word: chronofile
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word: circular file
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word: code file
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word: datafile
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word: data file
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word: destination file
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word: diff file
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word: dirt file
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word: dotfile
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word: dropfile
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word: factfile
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word: fact file
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word: file 13
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word: flat file
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word: goat file
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word: header file
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word: hosts file
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word: hypertext file
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word: Jenkinsfile
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word: kill file
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word: long file name
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word: make file
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word: patch file
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word: pseudofile
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word: read-me file
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word: round file
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word: sequential file
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word: serial file
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word: sidecar file
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word: source code file
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word: source file
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word: swap file
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word: system file
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word: text file
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word: tickler file
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word: tub file
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word: .txt file
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word: video file
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word: zip file
Derived terms: sense: Derived terms of file (etymology 1)
word: backfile
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word: case file
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word: device file
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word: file allocation table
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word: file association
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word: file cabinet
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word: file card
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word: file carving
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word: file clerk
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word: file descriptor
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word: file-drawer problem
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word: file extension
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word: file film
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word: file folder
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word: file footage
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word: file format
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word: Filegate
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word: filegroup
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word: filehandle
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word: file handle
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word: fileless
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word: filelike
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word: file manager
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word: filemark
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word: filemask
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word: filename
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word: file name
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word: filepath
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word: file photo
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word: file photograph
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word: file picker
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word: file pointer
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word: file section
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word: file server
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word: fileserver
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word: fileset
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word: filesharer
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word: file sharing
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word: file shredder
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word: file size
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word: filespace
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word: filestore
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word: filesystem
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word: file system
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word: filetype
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word: file type
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word: file video
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word: file videotape
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word: fileworthy
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word: helpfile
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word: logfile
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word: mailfile
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word: manifest file
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word: metafile
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word: mindfile
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word: molfile
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word: multifile
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word: notefile
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word: on file
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word: page file
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word: paging file
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word: PDF file
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word: per-file
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word: run someone's file
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word: savefile
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word: scorefile
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word: shapefile
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word: sigfile
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word: subfile
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word: swipe file
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word: tarfile