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filing

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: filing

1
 n
the entering of a legal document into the public record
2
 n
the act of using a file (as in shaping or smoothing an object)
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: filing
1

n the entering of a legal document into the public record

Type of:
entry, submission
something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition)

n preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc.

“I have some filing to do”
Type of:
storage
the act of storing something
2

n the act of using a file (as in shaping or smoothing an object)

Type of:
formation, shaping
the act of fabricating something in a particular shape

n a fragment rubbed off by the use of a file

Types:
metal filing
a fragment of metal rubbed off by the use of a file
iron filing
a fragment of iron rubbed off by the use of a file
Type of:
fragment
a piece broken off or cut off of something else
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