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filing

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fil·ing  (flng)
n.
1. The act or an instance of using a file.
2. A particle or shaving removed by a file: metal filings.
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Noun1.filing - the entering of a legal document into the public record; "he filed a complaint"; "he filed his tax return"
submission, entry - something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition); "several of his submissions were rejected by publishers"; "what was the date of submission of your proposal?"
2.filing - a fragment rubbed off by the use of a file
fragment - a piece broken off or cut off of something else; "a fragment of rock"
metal filing - a fragment of metal rubbed off by the use of a file
3.filing - the act of using a file (as in shaping or smoothing an object)
formation, shaping - the act of fabricating something in a particular shape
4.filing - preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc.; "I have some filing to do"
storage - the act of storing something
Translations
Spanish filing [ˈfaɪlɪŋ] n to do the filing → llevar los archivos
French filing [ˈfaɪlɪŋ] n(travaux mpl de) classement m;
filings npllimaille f

German filing [ˈfaɪlɪŋ] nAblegen nt, Abheften nt
Italian filing [ˈfaɪlɪŋ] narchiviare m see also filings

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The choir are getting on their sullied white robes, in a hurry, when he arrives among them, gets on his own robe, and falls into the procession filing in to service.
The remainder of the expedition came filing into the little enclosure.
He looked at them, and saw in them, without knowing it, the slow sure filing down of misery-worn face and figure, that was to make the meagreness of Frenchmen an English superstition which should survive the truth through the best part of a hundred years.
 
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