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Definition of File in
1. Verb. Enter by marching in a file.
Definition of File in
1. Verb. (intransitive) To enter in single file. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of File In
Literary usage of File in
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1877)
"... and is more economical in time, money, and space than any other file in the
market ; adapts itself to any number up to and В В LETTER FILE, No. 7 b. ..."
2. The Universal Etymological English Dictionary:: Containing an Additional ...by Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1737)
"A FILE [in Heraldry] is a ... A FILE [in Military Affairs] a Row of Soldiers (landing
one behind or below another. ..."
3. Journal by California Legislature. Assembly, California, United States Congress Senate, Legislature (1912)
"... as follows : All bills when reported to the House by the committees shall be
placed at the foot of the Second-Reading File, in the order in which the ..."
4. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1920)
"The file is held at both ends and is operated over the work at right angles to
the length of the file. In this position the cutting stroke can occur on the ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"... of the technical journals as may wish to publish them, and to be kept on file
in the offices of the Secretary of the Society and of the State Geologist. ..."
6. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1878)
"it is evident that, even supposing the operator to be able to move the file in
a straight line, the surface filed would not be straight. ..."
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