Crossword-Solution: FILE 4 letters, 370 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
File	n.	An orderly succession; a line; a row
File	n.	A row of soldiers ranged one behind another; -- in contradistinction to rank, which designates a row of soldiers standing abreast; a number consisting the depth of a body of troops, which, in the ordinary modern formation, consists of two men, the battalion standing two deep, or in two ranks.
File	n.	An orderly collection of papers, arranged in sequence or classified for preservation and reference; as, files of letters or of newspapers; this mail brings English files to the 15th instant.
File	n.	The line, wire, or other contrivance, by which papers are put and kept in order.
File	n.	A roll or list.
File	n.	Course of thought; thread of narration.
File	v. t.	To set in order; to arrange, or lay away, esp. as papers in a methodical manner for preservation and reverence; to place on file; to insert in its proper place in an arranged body of papers.
File	v. t.	To bring before a court or legislative body by presenting proper papers in a regular way; as, to file a petition or bill.
File	v. t.	To put upon the files or among the records of a court; to note on (a paper) the fact date of its reception in court.
File	v. i.	To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another; -- generally with off.
File	n.	A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc.
File	n.	Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively.
File	n.	A shrewd or artful person.
File	v. t.	To rub, smooth, or cut away, with a file; to sharpen with a file; as, to file a saw or a tooth.
File	v. t.	To smooth or polish as with a file.
File	v. t.	To make foul; to defile.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
FILE	anagram	FELI, FIEL, IFEL, LEIF, LIEF, LIFE

We have 370 clues for the answer “FILE”

Clue	Answers
"Open" is often seen under it	1 answer
"The Ipcress ___"	1 answer
"The round ___" (wastepaper basket)	1 answer
"___ and Forget" (classic humor piece by James Thurber)	1 answer
Arrange in a cabinet	1 answer
Beauty-shop tool	1 answer
CARD index	1 answer
Cabinet for papers.	1 answer
Cabinet of a kind.	1 answer
Circular ___ (wastebasket)	1 answer
Clichéd prison contraband item	1 answer
Cloud upload	1 answer
Clouded item	1 answer
Companion of "Edit" and "Tools"	1 answer
Companion of rank	1 answer
Computer document	1 answer
Computer folder item	1 answer
Computer record	1 answer
Container for papers.	1 answer
Corporal's guard.	1 answer
Data record	1 answer
Desktop document	1 answer
Do a secretarial chore	1 answer
Do a secretary's job	1 answer
Do an office task	1 answer
Do clerical work	1 answer
Do the work of many a clerk	1 answer
Document burial place	1 answer
Document place	1 answer
Escape tool secreted in a cake, in cartoons	1 answer
F.B.I. info	1 answer
Fingernail shaper	1 answer
Fingernail shortener	1 answer
Fingernail smoother	1 answer
Fingernail tool	1 answer
Fingernail-smoothing tool	1 answer
Finish one's taxes	1 answer
Folder insert	1 answer
Folder's contents	1 answer
Folder's locale	1 answer
Gathered info	1 answer
Gumbo seasoning	1 answer
Hard drive item	1 answer
Info in a folder	1 answer
Ipcress or Odessa	1 answer
It may be used on a nail	1 answer
It may have a .doc extension	1 answer
It's often dragged and dropped	1 answer
Item in a computer folder	1 answer
Item in a folder	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

The old plural of Eye.

Hint 2 anagram

ENE

Hint 3 another clue

AND STILL ___

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Sentences with FILE (5)

Let us pretend to lie here among the sugar-cane and watch them as they steal by in single file, each with his hand on his dagger.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

The other replied, “I am indeed glad that I was thought so little of, for I have lost nothing, nor am I hurt with any wound.” The Viper and the File A LION, entering the workshop of a smith, sought from the tools the means of satisfying his hunger.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

The outline with an overview of the organization of the concepts is contained in a separate file, "outline.doc", on the distribution disk.

Roget’s Thesaurus Peter Mark Roget 1991

Any mail sent to that address will "explode" out to each person named in a file maintained on a computer at Northwestern University.

Zen and the Art of the Internet Brendan P. Kehoe 1992

This is the Jargon File, a comprehensive compendium of hacker slang illuminating many aspects of hackish tradition, folklore, and humor.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

Quotes with FILE (3)

You know, I can see more than just the future or the past.""Really?" I asked, paging through through the papers in the file. "Can you also see the present? Because I can do that, too. Like, right now, I sense that I'm in a messy room with a total toolbox.

Rachel Hawkins Spell Bound

We measure time through a mental framework trussed with two major stakes: memory and expectation. Memory is that spottiness that takes place behind the eyes: memory takes place in the cloistered theater that houses diffused still pictures. We file mental pictures that encapsulate our prior life into mental shelves for a wayward librarian to cull through and forward select recollection to the recall center whenever summoned. Expectations arise from thoughtful consideration of our future prospects in life.

Kilroy J. Oldster Dead Toad Scrolls

Don't ruin a relationship, by giving it a name. A potential lover. A lover of the present and An ace of the past. These months, years and ages, might just forget the memory And remember the terms you used to file them in a draft.

Shillpi S Banerrji

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 315 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).