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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
File \File\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Filed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Filing}.]
1. To set in order; to arrange, or lay away, esp. as papers in a methodical manner for preservation and reverence; to place on file; to insert in its proper place in an arranged body of papers.
I would have my several courses and my dishes well filed. --Beau. & Fl.
2. To bring before a court or legislative body by presenting proper papers in a regular way; as, to file a petition or bill. --Burrill.
3. (Law) To put upon the files or among the records of a court; to note on (a paper) the fact date of its reception in court.
To file a paper, on the part of a party, is to place it in the official custody of the clerk. To file, on the part of the clerk, is to indorse upon the paper the date of its reception, and retain it in his office, subject to inspection by whomsoever it may concern. --Burrill.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Filing \Fil"ing\, noun A fragment or particle rubbed off by the act of filing; as, iron filings.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
filing
noun
1: 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 have some filing to do"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
76 Moby Thesaurus words for "filing": ablation, abrasion, abrasive, analysis, arrangement, attrition, buffing, burnishing, cataloging, categorization, chafe, chafing, classification, cloture, codification, committee consideration, debate, deliberation, detrition, division, dressing, enrollment, erasure, erosion, filibuster, filibustering, first reading, fretting, galling, grading, grazing, grinding, grouping, indexing, introduction, itemization, limation, listing, logrolling, pigeonholing, placement, polishing, ranging, ranking, rasping, rating, registration, registry, roll call, rubbing away, sandblasting, sanding, scouring, scrape, scraping, scratch, scratching, scrub, scrubbing, scuff, second reading, shining, smoothing, sorting, steamroller methods, stratification, subdivision, tabling, tabulation, talkathon, taxonomy, third reading, typology, vote, wear, wearing away
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