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Definitions: Filing |
FilingNoun1. The entering of a legal document into the public record; "he filed a complaint"; "he filed his tax return". 2. A fragment rubbed off by the use of a file. 3. The act of using a file (as in shaping or smoothing an object). 4. Preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc: "I having some filing to do". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "filing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
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Law | Request for the protection of an invention, filed with the EPO or the national central industrial property office. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pulverulence | Pulverization, comminution, attenuation, granulation, disintegration, subaction, contusion, trituration, levigation, abrasion, detrition, multure; limitation; tripsis; filing .Verb:. |
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Screenplays | Actually, I was thinking of filing a grievance with the union. (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers) Crewman Madison, the mist of this strange planet is filing my head with such thougts (Galaxy Quest; writing credit: David Howard) I was told that I could listen to the radio at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven, I told bill that if Sandra is going to listen to her headphones while she's filing then I should be able to listen to the radio while I'm collating so I don't see why I should have to turn down the radio because I enjoy listening at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven. (Office Space; writing credit: Mike Judge) | |
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 | [Dentistry: Filing teeth].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Military and civilian personnel in an office in the Main Navy or Munitions Buildings, circa 1918-19. Many of the women present are Navy Yeomen (F). Note Yeoman (F) working at the specialized filing desk in the right foreground. Next desk to the left bears the name tag "Miss Harris". This office is the same as seen in Photo # NH 52930, photographed from further down in the space. Numbers on the columns indicate that this office is on the third floor, eighth wing, looking south.Credit: NAVY. |
 | Filing toward the collieries instead of toward the schoolhouses / illustrations by Warren Rockwell.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Filing a saw, Roanoke Farms Project, North Carolina.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | New Madrid County, Missouri. Sharecropper woman filing hoe in cotton field.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | One of the girls of Vilter [Manufacturing] Co. filing small gun parts, Milwaukee, Wisc.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Liberty Mutual Life Insurance Co., 444 Merrick Rd., Lynbrook, Long Island. Filing space.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Miscellaneous subjects. Desk and filing cabinet.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Aliens filing income taxes at N.Y. Custom House.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Orville Wright and Edwin H. Sines, neighbor and boyhood friend, filing frames in the back of the Wright bicycle shop.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Quentin Crisp | Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost? |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Immediately upon the filing of such lists with the Commission, the Commission shall consider the amount and number of the materials and animals mentioned in the lists provided for above which are to be required of Germany. (reference) |
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Young Zaphod Plays It Safe | Douglas Adams | Any sophisticated knowledgable person, who had knocked about, seen a few things, would probably have remarked on how much the craft looked like a filing cabinet--a large and recently burgled filing cabinet lying on its back with its drawers in the air and flying. |
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Health | In some cases, commercial sponsors of a product may be unable or unwilling to accommodate an FDA request to evaluate the data regarding a currently unlabeled indication for a product used in cancer treatment or to consider filing a supplemental marketing application. (references) | |
Business | The space devoted to filing cabinets was reduced with the advent of computers and digital files. (references) | |
The CNDH has established a program to assist threatened activists in filing a complaint and obtaining protection. (references) | ||
The filing requirement is for general information on the foreign parent company and the activities of its Danish branch. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Spain | The period for filing an appeal in such cases is 24 hours. (references) |
India | In Assam the state government has attempted to impede criticism by filing a number of criminal defamation charges against journalists. (references) | |
Rwanda | In May a journalist working as a stringer for the Voice of America (VOA) was harassed after filing a report disputed by the authorities. (references) | |
Economic History | Italy | The priority right filing period for trademarks is 6 months. (references) |
Ecuador | The IPR law extends patent protection for 20 years from the date of filing. (references) | |
Italy | Patents are granted for 15 years from the effective filing date of application. (references) | |
Human Rights | Brazil | After filing a complaint, Galdino's family received threats. (references) |
Kenya | Court fees for filing and hearing cases are high for ordinary citizens. (references) | |
Trinidad and Tobago | All criminal proceedings commence with the filing of a complaint in the summary court. (references) | |
Minorities | Croatia | While the law itself did not include a deadline for filing applications, a decree issued by the previous regime did fix an April 1999 filing deadline (impossible to meet for many ethnic Serbs who still were refugees outside the country). (references) |
Tanzania | However, the court found that the 3 other plaintiffs did not prove their cases and refused to award them compensation; the court also denied the cases of the 750 members of the tribe for not following correct procedures in filing their claim. (references) | |
Estonia | By law the following classes of persons are ineligible for naturalization: Those filing on the basis of false data or documents; those not abiding by the constitutional system or not fulfilling the laws; those who have acted against the State and its security; those convicted of felonies; those who work or have worked in the intelligence or security services of a foreign state; or those who served as career soldiers in the armed forces of a foreign state, including those discharged into the reserves or retired. (references) | |
Political Economy | MEXICO | The term of patent protection is 20 years from the date of filing. (references) |
INDIA | Product patents in other areas are granted for 14 years from the date of filing. (references) | |
UKRAINE | Tax filing and collection procedures do not correspond to practices in Western countries. (references) | |
Political Rights | Bosnia and Herzegovina | In March the OSCE's Election Appeals Subcommittee cited 13 parties for improperly filing financial disclosure reports from the November 2000 elections. (references) |
Trade | Korea | A Foreign Investment Zone can also be designated as an integrated bonded area by simply filing a notice, which does not require approval. (references) |
Korea | Another noteworthy change in customs clearance effective January 1, 1999, is that goods can be released even before the filing of an import declaration and payment of tariffs. (references) | |
Travel | Cote D'ivoire | A filing fee is assessed on documents and legal transactions. (references) |
Women | Peru | Many victims are afraid of personally filing a complaint of sexual abuse, particularly in cases where the perpetrators were police officers. (references) |
Philippines | Female employees in special economic zones (SEZ's) are particularly at risk, as most are economic migrants who are required to work long hours and have no independent workers organization to assist with filing complaints. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Brazil | A January 2000 law enables cases with relatively low monetary claims to be adjudicated in one meeting with a judge within 30 days of the filing. (references) |
Malawi | Workers dismissed for filing complaints about workplace conditions have the right to file a complaint at the labor office or sue the employer for wrongful dismissal. (references) | |
Russia | The leader had received threats to her job and family after filing cases against the local procurator's office, municipal court, and police concerning misuse of funds. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Filing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 49.86% of the time. "Filing" is used about 351 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 49.86% | 175 | 23,506 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 34.47% | 121 | 29,211 |
| Noun (singular) | 13.11% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.28% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (common) | 0.28% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 351 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Japan | Nippon Filing Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "filing": appletalk Filing Protocol ♦ chronological filing ♦ filing cabinet ♦ filing card ♦ filing clerk ♦ filing drawer ♦ filing papers ♦ filing system ♦ filing tray ♦ filing with instrument ♦ filing word ♦ geographic filing method ♦ geographic filing system ♦ iron filing ♦ Jig filing ♦ metal filing ♦ network Filing System ♦ Soundex filing system ♦ subject filing ♦ topical filing. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "filing": filing-cabinet, filing-cabinets, filing-clerk, filing-system. | |
Ending with "filing": end-filing, hand-filing, iron-filing, late-filing, mis-filing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
filing bankruptcy | 972 | digital filing system | 37 |
filing cabinet | 712 | office filing system | 36 |
filing system | 340 | tax filing software | 35 |
sec filing | 285 | income tax filing | 34 |
filing | 229 | filing a lawsuit | 31 |
filing tax | 202 | hon filing cabinet | 30 |
filing for divorce | 166 | e filing | 30 |
filing unemployment | 145 | disability filing | 29 |
electronic filing | 139 | paper filing system | 28 |
online tax filing | 122 | lateral filing cabinet | 28 |
ucc filing | 113 | filing bankruptcy online | 28 |
payroll tax filing | 87 | home filing system | 26 |
business filing | 76 | filing room virtual | 26 |
filing for personal bankruptcy | 58 | filing chapter 11 | 24 |
free tax filing | 57 | filing chapter 13 | 24 |
edgar filing | 50 | filing a patent | 23 |
filing chapter 7 bankruptcy | 43 | bankrupt filing | 22 |
filing chapter 7 | 38 | court filing | 21 |
wood filing cabinet | 37 | filing rule | 21 |
electronic tax filing | 37 | dba filing | 20 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "filing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tallash metali (filings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الإضبار حفظ في اضبارة, برد بمبرد. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | регистриране (inscription, record, registration), пилене, изпиляване. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 屑子. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | naplnìní (replenishment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | filing (abrasion), ordning (arrangement, order). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vijlen, invoeging der kaarten, Europese octrooiaanvrage (European patent application), archivering, afvijlen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | slipo (filing card, slip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | seðil (bill, filing card, note, slip, ticket). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | viilaus, lajittelu (classification, grading, inspection, screening, selection, separation, sieving, sifting, sort, sorting), arkistointi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | limage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | feilen (file, file off, hone down, rasp, to rasp), ablage (clipboard, delivery, deposit, deposition, ledge, place to keep, stacker, stacking, tray). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κατάταξη (classification, collocation, grading, rating), λιμάρισμα, ταξινόμηση (assortment, classification, combining, nomenclature, rating, sort, sorting), ταξιθέτηση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תיוק (filing papers), תיקי" (filing cabinet), שיוף (filing with instrument). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | reszelék (filings, grating, gratings, paring, raspings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pengarsipan (system for keeping archives). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | limatura (filings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 提出 (presentation, submission). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ていしゅつ (introduce, present, presentation, submission). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 서류 리. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | coyr choadan (filing cabinet), cleragh coadan (filing clerk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ilingfay filigrana (chequered, filament, hatch-marked, watermark), registro (account book, adjustment fire, book, cartulary, enrollment, enrolment, entry, gate, inventory, ledger, list, meter, record, recording, register, registration, registry, regulator, roster, stocktaking, tally), limagem (dressing, edging off, trimming), classificação (allocation, assortment, classification, constitution, grading, ordination, placing, rating, regimentation, screening, sieving, sifting, tabulation, triage), arquivamento (discontinuation), alfabetação de fichas. (various references) punere la dosar, piliturã (file-dust, filings, grit, scrapings), pilire (file). (various references) опиловка, занесение в файл, запись в файл. (various references) ormar za kartoteku (file-cabinet, filing cabinet). (various references) limado, clasificación (assortment, breakdown, classification, demixing, grading, label, make-up, order, ordering, rank, ranking, rating, screening, segregation, separation, sieving, sifting, sort, sorting, table). (various references) filning (polishing). (various references) dosyalama. (various references) систематизація (arrangement, organization, regimentation, systematism, systematization), обпилювання, підшивка. (various references) máy giũa (filing machine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "filing": filings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "filing": defiling, interfiling, misfiling, prefiling, profiling, refiling. (additional references) | |
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"Filing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: faling, falping, falsing, Fehling, Feiling, felin, felyng, figing, Figini, Figino, Filane, Filein, fileing, Filenko, filig, filin, Filion, fillin, Fitling, fliing, flinf, flingy, Folin, Frieling, fyling, iling, viling, xilinx. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "filing" (pronounced fī"ling) |
| 4 | -ī" l i ng | beguiling, compiling, piling, smiling, styling, unsmiling, wiling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | ailing, ambling, angling, annealing, appalling, appealing, assailing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, belittling, Belling, bicycling, billing, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, Bolling, bottling, bowling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, ceiling, channeling, chilling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compelling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dispelling, dissembling, distilling, doling, doubling, dribbling, drilling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, enrolling, entailing, entangling, entitling, equaling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filling, fizzling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, groveling, growling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hailing, handling, hassling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hilling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, inkling, installing, instilling, intermingling, jailing, jiggling, jostling, juggling, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, Melling, middling, milling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, misspelling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, nailing, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, peeling, pickling, piddling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quelling, quibbling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, raveling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, reeling, refueling, regaling, rekindling, remodeling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, settling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, skilling, smelling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stealing, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, thrilling, throttling, Tilling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trailing, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, trilling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, willing, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yearling, yelling, yodeling. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-i-i-l-n" | |
-1 letter: fling. | |
-2 letters: ling. | |
-3 letters: fig, fil, fin, gin, lin, nil. | |
-4 letters: if, in, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-g-i-i-l-n" | |
+1 letter: failing, filings, filling, filming, fliting, foiling, lifting, lignify, rifling. | |
+2 letters: defiling, failings, fiddling, fielding, figuline, filching, fileting, fillings, fizzling, flailing, flicking, flinging, flinting, flipping, flirting, flitting, folioing, frilling, inflight, piffling, refiling, riffling, riflings, stifling, trifling. | |
+3 letters: failingly, figulines, filiating, filleting, filliping, filtering, finagling, firstling, fittingly, flighting, flinching, flitching, foliating, fribbling, frillings, frivoling, frizzling, fulmining, infalling, inflaming, inflating, infolding, ingulfing, lignified, lignifies, misfiling, nightlife, pilfering, prefiling, profiling, refilling, refilming, salifying, skiffling, sniffling, triflings, uglifying, unfailing, uplifting, vilifying, whiffling. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 69 6C 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .. .-.. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101001 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F i l i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0069 006C 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)407578758073 |
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