File or filing may refer to:
Mechanical tools and processes
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File (tool)
A file is a tool used to remove fine amounts of material from a workpiece. It is common in woodworking, metalworking, and other similar trade and hobby tasks. Most are hand tools, made of a case hardened steel bar of rectangular, square, tria ...
, a tool used to remove fine amounts of material from a workpiece.
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Filing (metalworking)
Filing is a material removal process in manufacturing. Similar, depending on use, to both sawing and grinding in effect, it is functionally versatile, but used mostly for finishing operations, namely in Burr_(edge), deburring operations. Filing op ...
, a material removal process in manufacturing
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Nail file, a tool used to gently abrade away and shape the edges of fingernails and toenails
Documents
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document
A document is a writing, written, drawing, drawn, presented, or memorialized representation of thought, often the manifestation of nonfiction, non-fictional, as well as fictional, content. The word originates from the Latin ', which denotes ...
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Filing (legal)
In law, filing is the delivery of a document to the clerk of a court and the acceptance of the document by the clerk for placement into the official record. If a document is delivered to the clerk and is temporarily placed or deposited with the ...
, submitting a document to the clerk of a court
Computing
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Computer file
A computer file is a System resource, resource for recording Data (computing), data on a Computer data storage, computer storage device, primarily identified by its filename. Just as words can be written on paper, so too can data be written to a ...
, a resource for storing information
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file URI scheme
In programming, a file uniform resource identifier (URI) scheme is a specific format of URI, used to specifically identify a file on a host computer. While URIs can be used to identify anything, there is specific syntax associated with identifying ...
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(command), a Unix program for determining the type of data contained in a computer file
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File system, a method of storing and organizing computer files and their data
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Files by Google, an Android app
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Files (Apple), an Apple app
Other uses
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File (formation), a single column of troops one in front of the other
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File (chess)
This glossary of chess explains commonly used terms in chess, in alphabetical order. Some of these terms have their own pages, like '' fork'' and '' pin''. For a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specifi ...
, a column of the chessboard
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Filé powder
Filé powder, also called gumbo filé, is a spicy herb seasoning made from the dried and ground leaves of the North American sassafras tree ''( Sassafras albidum)''.FoodPrint. Sassafras and Filé” Accessed 2023-10-25
Culinary use
Filé ...
, a culinary ingredient used in Cajun and Creole cooking
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Filé (band)
Filé is a cajun music ensemble from Louisiana founded in 1983. The group is named after filé powder, a spice used in cajun food.
The group was founded by Ward Lormand and Kevin Shearin, who had previously played together in the band Cush-Cus ...
, a Cajun musical ensemble from Louisiana, U.S.
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Filè, a class of Irish poet
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Electronic Language International Festival
The Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica (FILE; English: Electronic Language International Festival) is a new media arts festival that usually takes place in three cities of Brazil: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre. It has a ...
, an art and technology festival held yearly in São Paulo, Brazil
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Files'', a series of Indian thriller films by Vivek Agnihotri
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The Tashkent Files
''The Tashkent Files – Who Killed Shastri?'' is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language thriller film about the death of former Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri; written and directed by Vivek Agnihotri. The film stars Shweta Basu Prasad, ...
'', 2019 film about the 1966 death of Lal Bahadur Shastri in Tashkent
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The Kashmir Files
''The Kashmir Files'' is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language drama film written and directed by Vivek Agnihotri. The film presents a fictional storyline centred around the 1990 exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from Indian-administered Kashmir. It depicts ...
'', 2022 film about the 1990s exodus of Kashmiri Hindus
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The Delhi Files
''The Bengal Files'', formerly known as ''The Delhi Files:'' ''The Bengal Chapter'', is an upcoming Indian Hindi-language film directed by Vivek Agnihotri. It is the third and final instalment in Agnihotri's "Files" trilogy based on modern In ...
'', an upcoming film about the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi
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The Files: The Greatest Hits'' (album), a 2004 compilation album by Vico C.
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Jake Files
Jake C. Files (born March 27, 1972) is a Republican politician from Fort Smith, Arkansas. Files represented portions of the Arkansas River Valley in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1999 to 2003, and in the Arkansas Senate from 2011 ...
(born 1972), a member of the Arkansas State Senate
See also
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File folder
A file folder (or simply folder) is a kind of folder that holds papers together for organization and protection. File folders usually consist of a sheet of heavy paper stock or other thin, but stiff, material which is folded in half, and are ...
, a folder for holding loose papers
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Filing cabinet
A filing cabinet (or sometimes file cabinet in American English) is a piece of office furniture for storing paper documents in file folders. In the most simple context, it is an enclosure for drawer (furniture), drawers in which articles are sto ...
or file cabinet
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