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single file
n.
A line of people, animals, or things standing or moving one behind the other. Also called Indian file.
single file adv.
single file
n
a line of persons, animals, or things ranged one behind the other, either stationary or moving
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.single filesingle file - a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other
Indian file, file
snake dance - a group advancing in a single-file serpentine path
column - a line of units following one after another
line - a formation of people or things one behind another; "the line stretched clear around the corner"; "you must wait in a long line at the checkout counter"
Translations
single file n in single file → in fila indiana
single file n in single file → in fila indiana


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If Levin could have understood why, just as he saw why one can only approach the booking office of a railway station in single file, it would not have been so vexatious and tiresome to him.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
About night we landed at one of them little Missouri towns high up toward Iowa, and had supper at the tavern, and got a room upstairs with a cot and a double bed in it, but I dumped my bag under a deal table in the dark hall while we was moving along it to bed, single file, me last, and the landlord in the lead with a tallow candle.
Tom Sawyer Detective by Twain, Mark View in context
As the cavalcade took up the line of march in single file, Sola dragged me into an empty chariot and we proceeded with the procession toward the point by which I had entered the city the day before.
A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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