Antonyms for file

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : fahyl

Phonetic Transcription : faɪl

Definition of file

Origin : "to place (papers) in consecutive order for future reference," mid-15c., from Middle French filer "string documents on a wire for preservation or reference," from fil "thread, string" (12c.), from Latin filum "a thread, string," from PIE *gwhis-lom (cf. Armenian jil "sinew, string, line," Lithuanian gysla "vein, sinew," Old Church Slavonic zila "vein"), from root *gwhi- "thread, tendon." The notion is of documents hung up on a line.
File (filacium) is a threed or wyer, whereon writs, or other exhibits in courts, are fastened for the better keeping of them. [Cowel, "The Interpreter," 1607]
Methods have become more sophisticated, but the word has stuck. Related: Filed; filing.

noun system of order, placement for ease of use
noun line, queue
verb put in place, order
verb rub down, grind

Example sentences :

If you were envied, why should you sharpen envy, and file up its teeth to an edge?
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

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Extract from : « Beowulf » by Unknown

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Extract from : « Beowulf » by Unknown

During the night he managed to file the brass of his bedstead.
Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

Several dozen ogres were sitting around the cave in rank and file.
Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various

He then took from the file one of the Venetian glasses of clouded white.
Extract from : « Vivian Grey » by Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli

If the ould Governor's got a tongue like a file, Philip's got a tongue like a scythe—he'll mow them down.
Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine

And the same day a noise of hammer and file at work was heard in the smithy.
Extract from : « The Great Hunger » by Johan Bojer

That's the rank and file—very rank, I should say, most of them.
Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

The bloody accounts are stirring the rank and file of our army terribly.
Extract from : « Three Years in the Federal Cavalry » by Willard Glazier

Synonyms for file

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