1. A well-known steel instrument with little furrows on the surface, used in cutting or smoothing metals, ivory, or wood; a polishing apparatus.

2. To smooth or cut, as with a file; to correct.

3. To march in a file or line, as soldiers. To file off, to wheel off by files and march in length. Rank and file, the common soldiers; a body of men under leaders.

4. A line or wire on which papers are strung; the papers so strung or otherwise arranged in order; a bundle of papers tied together, with the title of each indorsed; a list or catalogue; a row of soldiers ranged one behind another, from front to rear.

5. To string or to fasten as papers, on a line or wire for preservation; to arrange papers in a bundle and in order; to present or exhibit officially or for trial.

Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language By Nuttall, P.Austin

• fitler,
• feice,
• feale,
• filess,
• dile,
• filure,
• fitey,
• feild,
• fule,
• lile,
• ile,
• offile,
• falue,
• filee,
• filde,
• fike,
• fiald,
• frale,
• fnale,
• figer

• felloe,
• Valli,
• Phyllie,
• Fol'io,
• fellow,
• foil,
• Vala,
• phial,
• phyllo,
• FLA731,
• Vail,
• FLO/FLO,
• Vell,
• fool,
• Falwe,
• PHL,
• fail,
• Foule,
• volley,
• five,
• Phil,
• follow,
• WFIL,
• felly,
• VLE,
• valley,
• fully,
• Phylae,
• FFL,
• fowl,
• nile,
• foul,
• WFLA,
• Valja,
• feel,
• Phyla,
• mile,
• Felia,
• vowel,
• fly,
• fuel,
• Fewel,
• Folier,
• vila,
• VEL,
• FL1060,
• falla,
• fellah,
• Folia,
• Fleigh,
• HFL,
• Vella,
• Fila,
• WFL,
• Phalli,
• full,
• valois,
• Flew,
• folie,
• Phila,
• Vallia,
• VOLL,
• folly,
• viol,
• Flo,
• fell,
• Villi,
• FEL,
• tent-fly,
• VLY,
• VIL,
• Viewly,
• Veola,
• vile,
• WVLU,
• Flawy,
• Ville,
• Fluo-,
• flee,
• fille,
• flu,
• viola,
• Voyol,
• Philo-,
• vole,
• FILO,
• fish-fly,
• fire,
• Feiwel,
• fall,
• Feal,
• FLI/FLO,
• floe,
• filly,
• To-fall,
• Law-fall,
• Velyo,
• vela,
• Vaill,
• Vele,
• Vill,
• CAL/VAL,
• FOL,
• Philo,
• Valla,
• Vallie,
• flow,
• Phelia,
• fill,
• VLL,
• vial,
• FLE,
• VLIW,
• VUL,
• flaw,
• fife,
• Fil,
• phyle,
• FAL,
• Phillie,
• Philly,
• filet,
• FHL,
• FL1039,
• Vallee,
• Filia,
• film,
• vali,
• Fele,
• foal,
• CEN/FIL,
• flay,
• Filed,
• Philia,
• AMT/VOL,
• Vaile,
• files,
• FLW,
• VLA,
• FLA,
• Val,
• Vally,
• FLA870,
• bile,
• flea,
• FISL,
• value,
• fill-ins,
• flier,
• folio,
• veal,
• fallow,
• VHL,
• viyella,
• VOL,
• Volow,
• Ful,
• fella,
• Fly-case,
• fula,
• DEM/VAL,
• Viole,
• veil,
• Fiala,
• Fluey,
• Fly-fish,
• flue,
• Velia,
• foully,
• Vielle,
• FLI,
• flyway,
• Folwe,
• villa,
• Floy,
• faille,
• vale,
• WPHL,
• Full-hot,
• fine,
• tile,
• flyaway,
• Faule,
• pile,
• voile,
• FLL,
• fulah,
• FLO1347.

The adjective form of the word "file" is "filed".

The plural of the "file" can be the "files".

The singular of the "file" can be the "file".