Word Meanings - FILE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. An orderly succession; a line; a row; as: 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,

Additional info about word: FILE

1. An orderly succession; a line; a row; as: 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. Note: The number of files in a company describes its width, as the number of ranks does its depth; thus, 100 men in "fours deep" would be spoken of as 25 files in 4 ranks. Farrow. 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. The line, wire, or other contrivance, by which papers are put and kept in order. It is upon a file with the duke's other letters. Shak. A roll or list. "A file of all the gentry." Shak. 2. Course of thought; thread of narration. Let me resume the file of my narration. Sir H. Wotton. File firing, the act of firing by file, or each file independently of others. -- File leader, the soldier at the front of any file, who covers and leads those in rear of him. -- File marching, the marching of a line two deep, when faced to the right or left, so that the front and rear rank march side by side. Brande & C. --Indian file, or Single file, a line of men marching one behind another; a single row. -- On file, preserved in an orderly collection. -- Rank and file. The body of soldiers constituing the mass of an army, including corporals and privates. Wilhelm. Those who constitute the bulk or working members of a party, society, etc., in distinction from the leaders.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FILE)

• Procession
• Train
• march
• caravan
• file
• cortege
• cavalcade
• retinue
• Range Rank
• dispose
• class
• place
• order
• collocate
• concatenate
• ramble
• stroll
• rove
• Row
• Series
• rank
• sequence
• continuation
• continuity
• string
• concatenation
• thread

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FILE)

• Course
• speed
• hasten
• drive
• run

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  from Strut, v. -- Strut"ting*ly, adv.
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  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• STROMATOLOGY
  The history of the formation of stratified rocks.
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  Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. Chaucer.
• IATROCHEMISTRY
  Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body,
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• ASPER
  Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce. "An asper sound." Bacon.
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  Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey.
• LUSTROUS
  Bright; shining; luminous. " Good sparks and lustrous." Shak. -- Lus"trous*ly, adv.
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  Of or pertaining to the Ostrogoths.
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• ANCESTRY
  1. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Addison. 2. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who
• INCONSEQUENCE
  The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.