SINGLE FILE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does single file mean? 

• SINGLE FILE (noun)
  The noun SINGLE FILE has 1 sense:

1. a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other

  Familiarity information: SINGLE FILE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SINGLE FILE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A line of persons or things ranged one behind the other

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

file; Indian file; single file

Hypernyms ("single file" is a kind of...):

line (a formation of people or things one behind another)

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

snake dance (a group advancing in a single-file serpentine path)

column (a line of units following one after another)

 Context examples 

Some hours later we saw them in single file far out upon the plain, each with a bundle on his head, making their way back along the path we had come.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The dogs worked in single file, one behind another, hauling on double traces.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Dave was wheeler or sled dog, pulling in front of him was Buck, then came Sol-leks; the rest of the team was strung out ahead, single file, to the leader, which position was filled by Spitz.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He advanced, throwing his little clear circlet of yellow radiance before him, while in single file we followed at his heels.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They went in single file, with bent legs and rounded backs, their hands occasionally touching the ground, their heads turning to left and right as they trotted along.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Advancing in single file along the bank of the stream, we soon found that it narrowed down to a mere brook, and finally that it lost itself in a great green morass of sponge-like mosses, into which we sank up to our knees.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)