file
noun/faɪl/
Слово англійською: file
Переклад file українською: па́пка (для папе́ру), докуме́нт (важли́вий, урядо́вий і т. д.), файл, досьє́, картоте́ка
Детальний опис
- a box or folded piece of card for keeping loose papers together and in order
- a box file
- A stack of files awaited me on my desk.
- in a file I keep paper copies of all my invoices in this file.
- a collection of information stored together in a computer, under a particular name
- to create/delete/download/upload a file
- to open/access/copy/save a file
- a/an PDF/audio/text/image file
- The service converts video files from one format to another.
- You can transfer and edit files on your smartphone.
- The media player supports a wide variety of file formats.
Wordfinder- copy
- data
- delete
- file
- folder
- icon
- menu
- open
- password
- a file and the information it contains, for example about a particular person or subject
- The film is based on real FBI case files.
- secret police files
- I made a note in his personal file.
- on file Your application will be kept on file (= in a file, to be used later).
- file on somebody to have/open/keep a confidential file on somebody
- Police have reopened the file (= have started collecting information again) on the missing girl.
- (Canadian English) a number of issues and responsibilities connected with a particular government policy area
- The politician's handling of flood, infrastructure and education files has been questioned.
- a metal tool with a rough surface for cutting or shaping hard substances or for making them smooth
- Use a file to smooth the edge.
- a line of people or things, one behind the other
- in file They set off in file behind the teacher.
Word Originnoun senses 1 to 3 late Middle English (as a verb meaning ‘string documents on a thread or wire to keep them in order’): from French filer ‘to string’, fil ‘a thread’, both from Latin filum ‘a thread’. Compare with file ‘line’. noun sense 5 late 16th cent.: from French file, from filer ‘to string’. noun sense 4 Old English fīl, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch vijl and German Feile.
Idioms
(in) single file
(also old-fashioned (in) Indian file)
- (in) one line, one behind the other
- They made their way in single file along the cliff path.