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 deburring operations. Filing operations can be ...
, a material removal process in manufacturing
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Nail file
A nail file is a tool used to gently grind down and shape the edges of nails. They are often used in manicures and pedicures after the nail has been trimmed using appropriate nail clippers. Nail files may either be emery boards, ceramic, glass, c ...
, a tool used to gently abrade away and shape the edges of fingernails and toenails
Documents
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documents
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 ''Documentum'', w ...
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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 co ...
, submitting a document to the clerk of a court
Computing
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Computer file
A computer file is a computer resource for recording data in a computer storage device, primarily identified by its file name. Just as words can be written to paper, so can data be written to a computer file. Files can be shared with and transfe ...
, a resource for storing information
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file URI scheme
The file URI Scheme is a URI scheme defined in , typically used to retrieve files from within one's own computer.
Previously the file URI scheme was specified in and . The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) published RFC 8089, updating the ...
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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
In computing, file system or filesystem (often abbreviated to fs) is a method and data structure that the operating system uses to control how data is stored and retrieved. Without a file system, data placed in a storage medium would be one larg ...
, a method of storing and organizing computer files and their data
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Files by Google
Files (formerly known as Files Go) is a file management app developed by Google for file browsing, media consumption, storage clean-up and offline file transfer. It was released by Google on December 5, 2017 with a custom version for China being ...
, an Android app
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Files (Apple)
Files is a file management app developed by Apple Inc. for devices that run iOS 11 and later releases of iOS and devices that run iPadOS. Discovered as a placeholder title in the App Store just prior to the company's 2017, Worldwide Developers ...
, an Apple app
Other uses
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File (formation)
A file is a military term for a number of troops drawn up in line ahead, i.e. one behind the other in a column. The number of files is the measure of the width of a column of troops in several ranks one behind the other.McNab, p. 55.Schwartz, p. ...
, 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 specific t ...
, a column of the chessboard
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Filé powder
Filé powder, also called gumbo filé, is a spicy herb made from the dried and ground leaves of the North American sassafras tree ''(Sassafras albidum)''.
Culinary use
Filé powder is used in Louisiana Creole cuisine in the making of some typ ...
, 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-Cush ...
, a Cajun musical ensemble from Louisiana, U.S
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Filè, a class of Irish poets
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Electronic Language International Festival
The Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica (FILE; English: Electronic Language International Festival) is a New media art festival that usually takes place in three cities of Brazil: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre and it has ...
, an art and technology festival held yearly in São Paulo, Brazil
See also
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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 t ...
(born 1972), a member of the Arkansas State Senate
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File folder
A file folder (or simply folder) is a kind of folder that holds papers and money 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 hal ...
, 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 drawers in which items are stored. The two most commo ...
or file cabinet
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