file – English noun declension

English noun forms of file

Noun: file
Singularfile
Pluralfiles

Sample Sentences

  • It is upon a file with the duke's other letters. [c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:]
  • We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files
  • We'd like to help you learn to help yourself [1968 April 5, Paul Simon, “Mrs. Robinson”, in Bookends, performed by Simon & Garfunkel:]
  • a file of all the gentry [c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:]
  • Let me resume the file of my narration. [1642, Henry Wotton, A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villiers:]
  • He had created a file for coding to design a new product.
  • I'm going to delete these unwanted files to free up some disk space.
  • Many homes now have double-file kitchens.
  • 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. [2010, Beth Critchley Charlton, Englaging the DisEngaged, page 71:]

Etymology

From Old French fil (“thread”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”). Doublet of filum. See: Latin Nouns 'fīlum'.

Verbs referencing "file"

Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns fil, Swedish Nouns fil, Spanish Nouns hilo, Spanish Nouns filo, Finnish Nouns filu, Latvian Nouns fails, Finnish Nouns faili, Russian Nouns файл, Ukrainian Nouns файл, Icelandic Nouns fæll, Hungarian Nouns fájl, Latvian Nouns vīle, German Nouns File.