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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
folder
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
file
▪ People often arrive barefoot, holding file folders stuffed with evidence.
▪ Manion put the seven blank sheets of paper and the accompanying envelopes in a file folder and left for lunch.
▪ Each day look in your file folders and read all documents for the current day, taking the appropriate action.
▪ He attempted to do this by holding a St x 11-inch file folder in front of the 25-inch screen.
■ VERB
open
▪ I opened the Crow Road folder lying on my lap and leafed through some of the papers.
▪ The second resource button opens your Favourites folder as a Web page.
▪ The thought lingered as he opened the folder and started to read its contents.
▪ He opened the folder and spread its contents across the table.
▪ Kim opened the folder and caught his breath.
take
▪ She took the folder and shot upstairs from her own tiny cell at one end of the double cube.
▪ He took out a folder and wrote in it for a few minutes.
▪ He drank some of the vodka before opening another drawer from which he took out a large folder.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The program allows you to group related documents in folders.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He took out a folder and wrote in it for a few minutes.
▪ Keep your orders and shipping together in a separate folder so you can refer to them later something goes amiss.
▪ One of them is sitting, poised like a crab about to scuttle, the fingers steadying a fresh Government-issue folder.
▪ Piles of paper folders are everywhere.
▪ Soon the first Iomega folder had reached its capacity of about 500 messages and a new one was started.
▪ The tall woman strode to his desk and laid the folder open in front of him.
▪ They allow you to get to the same file from many different folders without having to make copies of that file.
▪ You can now drag and drop any folder, or shortcut within a folder, and place them within your new category.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Folder

Folder \Fold"er\, n. One who, or that which, folds; esp., a flat, knifelike instrument used for folding paper.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
folder

1550s, "one who folds;" 1903, "folding cover for loose papers" (earlier as "a fold-up document," often a railway timetable or map); agent noun from fold (v.).

Wiktionary
folder

n. 1 An organizer that papers are kept in, usually with an index tab, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet. 2 (context computing English) A virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other folders may be stored. The files and subfolders in a folder are usually related. 3 A machine or person who folds things.

WordNet
folder
  1. n. a small book usually having a paper cover [syn: booklet, brochure, leaflet, pamphlet]

  2. covering that is folded over to protect the contents

Wikipedia
Folder

Folder may refer to:

  • File folder, a kind of folder that holds loose paper
  • Folder (computing), a virtual container within a digital file system, in which groups of files and other folders can be kept and organized
  • FOLDER (disk compression), a disk compression component of PTS-DOS
  • Folding machine, a machine used for folding paper
  • Folding bicycle, a bicycle which can be folded for compactness
  • Folder 5, a spinoff group from another J-pop group Folder
  • Benoit Franquet or Pole Folder, producer of electronic music
  • Short Folder, a series of aeroplanes designed with folding wings for shipborne use (from 1913)

Usage examples of "folder".

The Academician left the room, returning a minute later with a folder.

Grinning in silent triumph, Alec lifted out a leather folder and heard the muffled crackle of parchment.

He pulled the folder on insurance premiums out of his overstuffed file drawer, then checked his Memoranda from James Boulin Chartwell, III.

He knew that eventually all that bumf would have to be divided logically and neatly into separate file folders.

One of them knocked his folder onto the floor, and papers flew like the feathers when a red caracal cat gets into the henhouse.

With ill-concealed frustration, Faulkner stalked to the head of the conference table, lit a cigarillo, and opened a beautifully worked Moroccan leather folder.

She shuffled the papers, closed the folder, feeling admiration and respect for Cycler Jhonni, then strolled onto the balcony, taking the folder with her.

Seated directly behind him, General Grisham held several folders in case they were needed, but the Sec Def waved them off.

His memories of Elroy Doil and all that had occurred were like a file folder of jumbled notes and pages.

Within the folder were photographs and documents, all bearing reference to the racketeer called Butch Drongo, whose initials, J.

He tucked the folder back into his briefcase, turned off the CD player, detoured to the bedroom to brush his hair and pop a breath mint, then checked his re, flection in the mirror on the back of the closet door.

PC Brooks opened the file folder he carried and the two constables compared the identikit picture to this new one.

Then she set aside the lutar, replacing it in its case, and refiling the spell in the folder.

Once inside the smelly guest quarters, she rummaged through the folder she carried in the lutar case.

He found a pamphlet in his coat pocket, a what-to-do-in-El Paso folder that he must have picked up at the motel, and read its sixteen small pages so many times he could almost recite them.