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fyle

fyle is the alternative form of file.

Meaning of file

Verb

file (third-person singular simple present files, present participle filing, simple past and past participle filed)

  1. (transitive) To commit (official papers) to some office.
    • She filed their accounts yesterday.
    1. (intransitive, transitive) To submit a formal request to some office.
      • She filed for divorce the next day.
  2. (transitive) (of a journalist) To submit (an article) to a newspaper or similar publication.
    • I filed my copy soon after the interview.
  3. (transitive) To place in an archive in a logical place and order.
    • Troves of documents filed away in the depository.
  4. (transitive) To store a file (aggregation of data) on a storage medium such as a disc or another computer.
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To set in order; to arrange, or lay away.
    • I would have my several courses and my dishes well filed.1606, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Woman-Hater”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii

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Proper noun capitalized: Fyle

Fyle

  1. A surname.

Forms of fyle

third-person singular presentfyles
present participlefyling
past participlefyled
pastfyled

Questions about fyle

What does fyle mean?
Fyle means a surname.
What is fyle the alternative form of?
Fyle is the alternative form of file.
What part of speech is fyle?
Fyle is a proper noun.

Words near fyle in the dictionary

  1. fyke-nets
  2. fyked
  3. fykes
  4. fyking
  5. Fylde
  6. fyle
  7. fyles
  8. fylfot
  9. fylfots
  10. Fylingdales
  11. Fylingthorpe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fyle (page history and authors); Fyle (page history and authors); file (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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