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filigrain | filigrane | filigraned | filigree | filigreed | filing | filing cabinet | filing card | filing clerk | filing system | filings

filing

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Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
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fil=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

filingn. 
     A fragment or particle rubbed off by the act of filing; as, iron filings.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

filing, n. (usu. in pl.) a particle rubbed off by a file.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

filing

Pulverulence

N powderiness, pulverulence, sandiness, efflorescence, friability, powder, dust, sand, shingle, sawdust, grit, meal, bran, flour, farina, rice, paddy, spore, sporule, crumb, seed, grain, particle, limature, filings, debris, detritus, tailings, talus slope, scobs, magistery, fine powder, flocculi, smoke, cloud of dust, cloud of sand, cloud of smoke, puff of smoke, volume of smoke, sand storm, dust storm, pulverization, comminution, attenuation, granulation, disintegration, subaction, contusion, trituration, levigation, abrasion, detrition, multure, limitation, tripsis, filing, mill, arrastra, gristmill, grater, rasp, file, mortar and pestle, nutmeg grater, teeth, grinder, grindstone, kern, quern, koniology, powdery, pulverulent, granular, mealy, floury, farinaceous, branny, furfuraceous, flocculent, dusty, sandy, sabulous, psammous, arenose, arenarious, arenaceous, gritty, efflorescent, impalpable, lentiginous, lepidote, sabuline, sporaceous, sporous, pulverizable, friable, crumbly, shivery, pulverized, attrite, in pieces.


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