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fi·lé    Audio Help   [fi-ley, fee-ley] Pronunciation Key
–noun New Orleans Cookery.
a powder made from the ground leaves of the sassafras tree, used as a thickener and to impart a pungent taste to soups, gumbos, and other dishes.
Also called filé powder.

[Origin: 1800–10, Americanism; < LaF; lit., twisted, ropy, stringy (perh. orig. applied to dishes thickened with the powder), ptp. of F filer; see file1]
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file3    Audio Help   [fahyl] Pronunciation Key
–verb (used with object), filed, fil·ing. Archaic.
to defile; corrupt.
[Origin: bef. 1000; ME; OE fȳlan to befoul, defile, deriv. of fūl foul]
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file2    Audio Help   [fahyl] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, filed, fil·ing.
–noun
1.a long, narrow tool of steel or other metal having a series of ridges or points on its surfaces for reducing or smoothing surfaces of metal, wood, etc.
2.a small, similar tool for trimming and cleaning fingernails; nail file.
3.British Slang. a cunning, shrewd, or artful person.
–verb (used with object)
4.to reduce, smooth, or remove with or as if with a file.
[Origin: bef. 900; ME; OE fīl, féol; c. G Feile; akin to Gk pikrós sharp]

—Related forms
file·a·ble, adjective
filer, noun
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file1    Audio Help   [fahyl] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, filed, fil·ing.
–noun
1.a folder, cabinet, or other container in which papers, letters, etc., are arranged in convenient order for storage or reference.
2.a collection of papers, records, etc., arranged in convenient order: to make a file for a new account.
3.Computers. a collection of related data or program records stored on some input/output or auxiliary storage medium: This program's main purpose is to update the customer master file.
4.a line of persons or things arranged one behind another (distinguished from rank).
5.Military.
a.a person in front of or behind another in a military formation.
b.one step on a promotion list.
6.one of the vertical lines of squares on a chessboard.
7.a list or roll.
8.a string or wire on which papers are strung for preservation and reference.
–verb (used with object)
9.to place in a file.
10.to arrange (papers, records, etc.) in convenient order for storage or reference.
11.Journalism.
a.to arrange (copy) in the proper order for transmittal by wire.
b.to transmit (copy), as by wire or telephone: He filed copy from Madrid all through the war.
–verb (used without object)
12.to march in a file or line, one after another, as soldiers: The parade filed past endlessly.
13.to make application: to file for a civil-service job.
—Idiom
14.on file, arranged in order for convenient reference; in a file: The names are on file in the office.
[Origin: 1425–75; late ME filen < MF filer to string documents on a thread or wire, OF: to wind or spin thread < LL fīlāre, v. deriv. of L fīlum thread, string]

—Related forms
file·a·ble, adjective
filer, noun

—Synonyms 10. classify, label, catalog, index, list, categorize.
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Thesaurus Entries
  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus - Cite This Source
Main Entry:  line
Part of Speech:  noun
Definition:  A group of people or things arranged in a row.
Synonyms:  column, queue, rank, row, string, tier
Source:  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
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