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• a steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal

  hypernym	hand tool
  hyponym	blunt fileflat filenailfilerasprat-tail fileround filetaper filewood file
  mero part	hafthelve

• office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order

  synonym	file cabinetfiling cabinet
  hypernym	office furniture
  hyponym	card catalogcard cataloguecard indexvertical file

• a set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together

  synonym	data file
  hypernym	record
  hyponym	computer fileeditorial filemug bookmug fileticklertickler file
  instance hyponym	Combined DNA Index System

• a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other

  synonym	Indian filesingle file
  hypernym	line
  hyponym	columnsnake dance

• place in a container for keeping records

  synonym	file away
  derivation	filerfiling
  other	filer
  hypernym	enterput downrecord

• file a formal charge against

  synonym	chargelodge
  derivation	filer
  other	filer
  hypernym	accusecriminateimpeachincriminate
  hyponym	impeach

• record in a public office or in a court of law

  synonym	register
  derivation	filing
  domain topic	jurisprudencelaw
  hypernym	register
  hyponym	trademark

• smooth with a file

  derivation	filing
  entails	rub
  hypernym	smoothsmoothen

• proceed in line

  also	file infile out
  hypernym	marchprocess