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Grammar : Verb
Spell : fahyl
Phonetic Transcription : faɪl


Definition of filed

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.
  • verb put in place, order
  • verb rub down, grind
Example sentences :
  • The bill was filed in Chancery by their grandfather, Mr. Westbrook.
  • Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald
  • I filed a claim, found some real money and told what I'd found.
  • Extract from : « The Vagrant Duke » by George Gibbs
  • You will see that it was filed at Brussels at noon of Sunday, the twenty-fourth.
  • Extract from : « The Destroyer » by Burton Egbert Stevenson
  • It was dated from Paris, and had been filed but an hour before.
  • Extract from : « The Destroyer » by Burton Egbert Stevenson
  • One by one they filed off, saying what a delightful evening they had had.
  • Extract from : « Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 16, 1914 » by Various
  • I felt the points of the nails and found they had been filed down and were blunt.
  • Extract from : « Telepathy » by W. W. Baggally
  • Then they filed a mandamus to compel it to do so, and brought the matter into the courts.
  • Extract from : « The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV » by Various
  • So the hunters went off to the court of the governor and filed a suit for the deer.
  • Extract from : « The Soul of a People » by H. Fielding
  • After moving on for perhaps half a mile, we filed to the left.
  • Extract from : « The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson » by Edward A. Moore
  • The iron must be filed clean and then brushed with chloride of zinc solution.
  • Extract from : « On Laboratory Arts » by Richard Threlfall

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