file
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /faɪl/|[faɪ̯(ə)ɫ]
美 /faɪl/|[faɪ̯(ə)ɫ]
英文释义
名词 n.
- A tool consisting of a strip or rod of hardened and coarse metal, used for removing sharp edges, shaping, and cutting, especially through metal; usually a hand tool.
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A column of people one behind another, whether "single file" or in a grid pattern.
— The troops marched in Indian file.
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A collection of papers collated and archived together.
— It is upon a file with the duke's other letters.
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A roll or list.
— a file of all the gentry
- A small detachment of soldiers.
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A cunning or resourceful person.
— Will is an old file, in spite of his smooth face.
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A pickpocket.
— The greatest character among them was that of a pickpocket, or, in their language, a file.
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A course of thought; a thread of narration.
— Let me resume the file of my narration.
- One of the eight vertical lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a letter).
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An aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name.
— He had created a file for coding to design a new product.
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A row of modular kitchen units and a countertop, consisting of cabinets and appliances below (dishwasher) and next to (stove/cooker) a countertop.
— Many homes now have double-file kitchens.
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Clipping of file cabinet.
— The Nonfiction Vertical File: […]I spent my university years working in the library at the Maritime School of Social Work. One of my responsibilities was to keep the library's vertical file up to date. The vertical file was a cabinet full of current newspaper and magazine clippings on topics of interest to the students and faculty of the school.
动词 v.
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To commit (official papers) to some office.
— She filed their accounts yesterday.
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To defile.
— I cannot thinke […] So true a bird would file ſo faire a neſt, […]
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To smooth, grind, or cut with a file.
— I'd better file the bottoms of the table legs. Otherwise they will scratch the flooring.
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To move in a file.
— The applicants kept filing into the room until it was full.
- To corrupt.
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(of a journalist) To submit (an article) to a newspaper or similar publication.
— I filed my copy soon after the interview.
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To place in an archive in a logical place and order.
— Troves of documents filed away in the depository.
- To store a file (aggregation of data) on a storage medium such as a disc or another computer.
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To submit a formal request to some office.
— She filed for divorce the next day.
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To set in order; to arrange, or lay away.
— I would have my several courses and my dishes well filed.
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下位词
accordion file
audio file
barrel file
batch file
binary file
box file
cabinet file
casefile
chronofile
circular file
code file
datafile
data file
destination file
diff file
dirt file
dotfile
dropfile
factfile
fact file
file 13
flat file
goat file
header file
hosts file
hypertext file
Jenkinsfile
kill file
long file name
make file
patch file
pseudofile
read-me file
round file
sequential file
serial file
sidecar file
source code file
source file
swap file
system file
text file
tickler file
tub file
video file
visible file
zip file
词源
词源 1
From Old French fil (“thread”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”). Doublet of filum.
词源 2
From French file, from filer (“to spin out, arrange one behind another”), from Latin fīlāre, from filum (“thread”).
词源 3
From Middle English file, fyle, from Old English fēl, fēol (“file”), from earlier fīil, from Proto-Germanic *finhlō, *finhilō (“file, rasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“to adorn, form”). Cognate with West Frisian file (“file”), Dutch vijl (“file”), German Feile (“file”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish fil (“file”), Icelandic þjöl (“rasp, file”).
词源 4
From Middle English filen (“to defile”), from Old English fȳlan (“to defile, make foul”), from Proto-West Germanic *fūlijan (“to make foul”). More at defile.
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