file
noun
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a steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces
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office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in orderfile cabinetfiling cabinet
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a set of related records kept together“The file on the misbehaving student was hundreds of pages long.”data file
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a line of persons or things ranged one behind the othersingle file
verb
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file a formal charge againstcharge
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place in a container for keeping recordsfile away
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record in a public office or in a court of law“file for divorce”register
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smooth with a file“file one's fingernails”
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proceed in line“The students filed into the classroom”