What is the meaning of FILE. Phrases containing FILE
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A term for the average seaman who is in the lower ranks. Comes from the description for a military formation, where a rank is a row and a file is a column.
Piles (hemorrhoids). Me Jim Rockford's are giving me gip! Jim Rockford was the central character in the TV show The Rockford Files.
The gash.
Lever arch files is London Cockney rhyming slang for haemorrhoids (piles).
File is slang for a shrewd or artful person. File is slang for a pickpocket.File is slang for to pick a pocket.
A traditional method of helping a shipmate in financial distress. A tarp is spread out on the deck, and then the ships company files past, dropping donations of whatever they can afford onto the tarp.
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n.
A coarse file, or the rough part of a file.
n.
A curved file used in carving wool and marble.
v. t.
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.
n.
A series of persons or things arranged in a continued line; a line; a rank; a file; as, a row of trees; a row of houses or columns.
v. t.
To bring before a court or legislative body by presenting proper papers in a regular way; as, to file a petition or bill.
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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.
n.
An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work.
n.
One who works with a file.
v. t.
To rub, smooth, or cut away, with a file; to sharpen with a file; as, to file a saw or a tooth.
n.
A counterclaim; a cross debt or demand; a distinct claim filed or set up by the defendant against the plaintiff's demand.
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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.
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To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.
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To remove from a file or record.
n.
The filefish; -- so called in Bermuda.
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Rough to the touch, like a file; having small raised dots, scales, or points; scabby; scurfy; scaly.
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To smooth or polish as with a file.
v. i.
To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another; -- generally with off.
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Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
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Any projection corresponding to the tooth of an animal, in shape, position, or office; as, the teeth, or cogs, of a cogwheel; a tooth, prong, or tine, of a fork; a tooth, or the teeth, of a rake, a saw, a file, a card.
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