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The entering of a legal document into the public record
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filing
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the entering of a legal document into the public record; "he filed a complaint"; "he filed his tax return" a fragment rubbed off by the use of a file the act of using a file (as in shaping or smoothing an object) preservation and methodical arrangement ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any particle that has been removed by a file or similar implement; a shaving. 2 The act of storing documents in an archive; archiving. vb. (present participle of file English)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1712, verbal noun from file (v.1). Filing cabinet is from 1883.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Filing \Fil"ing\, n. A fragment or particle rubbed off by the act of filing; as, iron filings.
Usage examples of filing.
The older warriors were filing out of the armory and following Haddim down the steps cut into the cliffs.
The arsonist could see the names of some of the documents that he had been sent to destroy openly displayed on the binders and filing boxes in the ground-floor offices.
Some of them had mutilated their teeth by filing them to a sharp point like those of a shark, and the men were armed with throwing spears and light axes with half-moon-shaped blades.
The clerk was busy watching Bade when he banged into the back of a tall filing case.
I fingered an odd-looking Beanie Baby with five legs that had been left on top of a small filing cabinet.
The filing of the decree of the Senate had acted like a charm upon our Capo of the Ten: the importance thus accorded to the Ca' Giustiniani soothed every vestige of wounded pride, while the beauty and grace of his prospective daughter-in-law had filled him with a triumph which only the frigid stateliness of his habitual demeanor enabled him to conceal, so great was the revulsion from his former state of feeling.
Presently it came into sight, rounding the shoulder of the cliff and filing on to the ledge--twenty warriors led by Carb and among them a girl, her wrists bound behind her back, a rawhide leash around her neck, the free end held by a brawny warrior.
August, 1907, the joints between the segments of the cast-iron lining were caulked with iron filings and sal ammoniac, mixed in the proportion of 400 to 1 by weight.
Beside those fiery eyes appeared the muzzle of an automatic, trained for the darkish men who were filing out through the rear door.
Savage planned the disposition of Gime and Del Ling as he went over the records in the filing room.
Without the filing cabinets the fungus growing in the corners showed acid green and livid purple, with a wet sheen like the innards of a slaughtered beast.
Like The Shadow, Jute made his first foray in the direction of the filing cabinet.
His flaming eyes scanned the natural-color photographs in the same filing cabinet that had made the mouth of Mark Kemper water with greed.
This usually means breaking it open, but what I figured out was that if I inject it with magnetised iron filings in a lecithin emulsion, then stick it in a rotating magnetic field, I can churn it up quite effectively.
It had a melamine desk, a cheap chair in black plastic that looked almost like leather and a grey metal filing cabinet.