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▪ I. filing, vbl. n.1|ˈfaɪlɪŋ|
[f. file v.1 + -ing1.]
1. The action of file v.1 lit. and fig.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. xlv. (1495) 568 The powdre that fallyth fro the yren wyth fylynge. 1557Recorde Whetst. B ij b, The filyng, sharpenyng, and quickenyng of the witte. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc. 53 An Instrument of great use for flat Filing. 1694–5Pepys Let. 10 Jan. in Academy (1890) 9 Aug. 111/1 Our Friend's Learning..wants a little fileing.
attrib.1774Foote Cozeners i. Wks. 1799 II. 147 The clipping and filing affair compels him to keep a little private.
2. concr. usually pl. One of the particles rubbed off by the action of the file.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. iv. (Tollem. MS.), The vilynge of golde take in mete. 1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Limaduras, the filings. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xxii. 165 For medicall uses, wee take downe the filings of Iron or steele. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 79 The filings of the foremost hoofes given with water help the frettings in Horses. 1772Priestley in Franklin's Wks. (1887) IV. 489 A mixture of iron filings and brimstone. 1812Sir H. Davy Chem. Philos. 259 Filings of copper are usually employed. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) II. iii. vii. 154 The minutest filings from the chains of St. Peter.
3. Comb., as filing-block, a block of wood grooved to hold small rods or bars while being filed; filing-machine (see quot.); filing-pin, a piece of hard wood used in silver manufacture to file against.
1874Knight Dict. Mech. I. 843/1 *Filing-block..*Filing-machine, 1. A machine used in the mint to reduce the weight of coin planchets, when above the standard..2. A machine in which a file is mounted as a jig-saw; or to reciprocate in a manner similar to that of a file in the hands of a workman.
▪ II. ˈfiling, vbl. n.2
[f. file v.2]
The action of the vb. file; † concr. excrement.
1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 2345 Now er þai made foule and ugly Thurgh fylyng of þair syn anly. c1460Urbanitatis 52 in Babees Bk. (1868) 14 Kepe þy hondys fayre & welle Fro fylynge of the towelle. 16..Childe Waters in Evans O.B. (1784) II. xxxv. 213 And take her up in thine armes twaine, For filing of her feete. a1622R. Hawkins in Hawkins's Voy. (1878) 196 Nor in any of their nestes, was to be found..the filing of any fowle.
▪ III. filing, vbl. n.3|ˈfaɪlɪŋ|
[f. file v.3 + -ing1.]
The action of file v.3; an instance of this. a. The action of putting a document on a file. b. Mil. The action of forming a file or files.
a.1712Arbuthnot John Bull i. xi, Fees..for enrollings, exemplifications..filings of words. 1888Law Times LXXXV. 132/2 The filing by a debtor of his own petition.
b.1796Instr. & Reg. Cavalry (1813) 8 Filings, formings, and in general the movements of manœuvre. 1832Regul. Instr. Cavalry ii. 9 Filing is an operation of the squadron.
c. attrib., as filing cabinet, filing clerk, filing system.
1907G. B. Shaw J. Bull's Other Island i. 3 (stage direction) A filing cabinet, with a cupboard on it. 1911H. S. Harrison Queed xxv. 329 West went to a filing cabinet in the corner of the room. 1930Daily Express 6 Nov. 3/2 There are scores of new type-writers..and filing cabinets, telephone instruments and..telephone boxes for the use of the ninety delegates and their staffs. 1964English Studies XLV (Suppl.). 26, I have selected a number of details that might..have remained in my filing cabinet.
1922S. Lewis Babbitt ii. 16 Verona had for six months been filing-clerk at the Gruensberg Leather Company offices. 1956A. H. Compton Atomic Quest 338 From filing clerks to administrators.
1926Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 10 Jan. 6/3 A central filing system is being contemplated. 1936Discovery Nov. 346/2 A New Filing System. 1958Filing system [see brain-child s.v. brain n. 6]. |