file of documents papers

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• file — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English fēol; akin to Old High German fīla file Date: before 12th century 1. a tool usually of hardened steel with cutting ridges for forming or smoothing surfaces especially of metal 2. a shrewd or… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• file — [[t]fa͟ɪl[/t]] ♦♦ files, filing, filed 1) N COUNT A file is a box or a folded piece of heavy paper or plastic in which letters or documents are kept. He sat behind a table on which were half a dozen files. ...a file of insurance papers. 2) N… …   English dictionary

• file — 1 vb filed, fil·ing vt 1 a: to submit (a legal document) to the proper office (as the office of a clerk of court) for keeping on file among the records esp. as a procedural step in a legal transaction or proceeding filed a tax return a financing… …   Law dictionary

• file — file1 [fīl] vt. filed, filing [ME filen < OFr filer, to string documents on thread, orig., to spin thread < LL filare, to spin < L filum, thread < IE base * gwhislo > Lith gýsla, sinew] 1. a) to arrange (papers, etc.) in order for… …   English World dictionary

• documents — I noun case history, chronicle, credentials, data, documentation, evidence, exhibits, file, instruments, legal instruments, manuscript, moving papers, official writing, papers associated concepts: ancient documents, attorney client privilege,… …   Law dictionary

• file — ▪ I. file file 1 [faɪl] noun [countable] 1. information about a person or subject that is kept by a company or other organization: • I see from my files that we still have not received payment from you. • A credit reference agency is a company… …   Financial and business terms

• file — file1 W2S1 [faıl] n [Sense: 1 3, 5; Date: 1500 1600; : French; Origin: fil thread , from Latin filum (because documents were stored on pieces of string).] [Sense: 4; Origin: Old English feol] 1.) a set of papers, records etc that contain… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• file — file1 [ faıl ] noun count *** 1. ) a set of papers, documents, or records that you keep because they contain information: The insurance company may want to check your medical files. file on: The police file on this particular case has now been… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• file — {{11}}file (n.1) 1520s, string or wire on which documents are strung, from Fr. file row, from M.Fr. filer (see FILE (Cf. file) (v.)). The meaning arranged collection of papers is from 1620s; computer sense is from 1954. The military sense line or …   Etymology dictionary

• File format — A file format is a particular way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file. Since a disk drive, or indeed any computer storage, can store only bits, the computer must have some way of converting information to 0s and 1s and vice …   Wikipedia

• File sharing — This article is about file sharing over the Internet. For printer and file sharing as local area network service, see shared resource. Part of a series on File sharing …   Wikipedia