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Grammar : Noun
Spell : fahy-lingz
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfaɪ lɪŋz



Definition of filings

  • As in paperwork : noun office work
  • As in registration : noun the act of registering
  • As in friction : noun rubbing
Example sentences :
  • He put the filings in a little pot which had been used for ointment of some kind.
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
  • The magnet acts on the filings through the paper, and see how it arranges them!
  • Extract from : « Fragments of science, V. 1-2 » by John Tyndall
  • He could feel his hair stiffen like filings drawn to a magnet.
  • Extract from : « The Day Time Stopped Moving » by Bradner Buckner
  • Not one of them had the least particle of the filings drawn off.
  • Extract from : « Bouvard and Pcuchet » by Gustave Flaubert
  • Second, do not file brass where the filings will get into the solder.
  • Extract from : « Elements of Plumbing » by Samuel Dibble
  • The mixture of filings used in this process is called thermit.
  • Extract from : « The Boy's Book of New Inventions » by Harry E. Maule
  • The filings should be allowed to stand for several days in the vinegar.
  • Extract from : « Carpentry and Woodwork » by Edwin W. Foster
  • Mechanically I did the same, and wondered why filings were packed in that kind of a barrel.
  • Extract from : « The Yazoo Mystery » by Irving Craddock
  • The filings have so high a resistance that no current flows.
  • Extract from : « The Story of Great Inventions » by Elmer Ellsworth Burns
  • Strings or lines of filings pass from one pole of the magnet to the other.
  • Extract from : « Electricity for the 4-H Scientist » by Eric B. Wilson

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