FILING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does filing mean? 

• FILING (noun)
  The noun FILING has 4 senses:

1. the entering of a legal document into the public record

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.

  Familiarity information: FILING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FILING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The entering of a legal document into the public record

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

he filed his tax return

Hypernyms ("filing" is a kind 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))

Derivation:

file (record in a public office or in a court of law)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A fragment rubbed off by the use of a file

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("filing" is a kind of...):

fragment (a piece broken off or cut off of something else)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "filing"):

metal filing (a fragment of metal rubbed off by the use of a file)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("filing" is a kind of...):

formation; shaping (the act of fabricating something in a particular shape)

Derivation:

file (smooth with a file)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

I have some filing to do

Hypernyms ("filing" is a kind of...):

storage (the act of storing something)

Derivation:

file (place in a container for keeping records)

 Context examples 

A person employed in an office who performs various tasks such as keeping records or accounts, filing, letter writing, or transcribing.

(Clerk, NCI Thesaurus)

You may be doing your current taxes or filing several years of back taxes.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

But he was thrown down and choked repeatedly, till they succeeded in filing the heavy brass collar from off his neck.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Half heaven was pure and stainless: the clouds, now trooping before the wind, which had shifted to the west, were filing off eastward in long, silvered columns.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A notation or direction at one place (as in a book or filing system) to pertinent information at another place.

(Cross-Reference, NCI Thesaurus)

As I walked to and fro daily between Southwark and Blackfriars, and lounged about at meal-times in obscure streets, the stones of which may, for anything I know, be worn at this moment by my childish feet, I wonder how many of these people were wanting in the crowd that used to come filing before me in review again, to the echo of Captain Hopkins's voice!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A person responsible within the Cooperative Group and/or a particular clinical trial for the completion and filing of reports (along with any supporting documentation) on adverse events to NCI and FDA via web-based Adverse Event Expedited Reporting System (AdEERS).

(AdEERS Contact, NCI Thesaurus)

An employee charged with the general administrative responsibilities of any given office of a corporation or business, responsible for all paperwork, including its filing and retention over time, and the supervision of office staff.

(Office Manager, NCI Thesaurus)

You may be paying estimated taxes or filing your annual tax return early.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

If, for example, you are filing a trademark or patent, under these twinkling stars, the future bodes well for your venture.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)