Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or an instance of using a file.
- noun A particle or shaving removed by a file.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of using a file.
- noun A fragment or particle rubbed off by a file: as, iron-filings.
- noun The act of putting upon file.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A fragment or particle rubbed off by the act of filing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
particle that has been removed by afile or similarimplement ; ashaving . - noun The act of storing
documents in anarchive ;archiving . - verb Present participle of
file .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc.
- noun the act of using a file (as in shaping or smoothing an object)
- noun the entering of a legal document into the public record
- noun a fragment rubbed off by the use of a file
Etymologies
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Examples
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But that's what this filing is all about -- whether the government's treatment of Padilla was so extreme so as to justify precluding the government from prosecuting him.
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But that's what this filing is all about -- whether the government's treatment of Padilla was so extreme so as to justify precluding the government from prosecuting him.
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But that's what this filing is all about -- whether the government's treatment of Padilla was so extreme so as to justify precluding the government from prosecuting him.
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But that's what this filing is all about -- whether the government's treatment of Padilla was so extreme so as to justify precluding the government from prosecuting him.
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But that's what this filing is all about -- whether the government's treatment of Padilla was so extreme so as to justify precluding the government from prosecuting him.
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But that's what this filing is all about -- whether the government's treatment of Padilla was so extreme so as to justify precluding the government from prosecuting him.
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But that's what this filing is all about -- whether the government's treatment of Padilla was so extreme so as to justify precluding the government from prosecuting him.
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But that's what this filing is all about -- whether the government's treatment of Padilla was so extreme so as to justify precluding the government from prosecuting him.
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But that's what this filing is all about -- whether the government's treatment of Padilla was so extreme so as to justify precluding the government from prosecuting him.
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But that's what this filing is all about -- whether the government's treatment of Padilla was so extreme so as to justify precluding the government from prosecuting him.
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lampbane commented on the word filing
The act of putting files away, or paperwork that has been submitted to a government institution (such as a tax return or bankruptcy).
September 7, 2008