filer
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
filer (plural filers)
- One who files something.
- 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
- Hitherto I have hoarded up mementoes and monuments of the past; been a worshiper of all heirlooms; a fond filer away of letters, locks of hair, bits of ribbon, flowers,
- (computing) A software program for managing files.
- 1983 February 28, InfoWorld, volume 5, number 9, page 28:
- The filer allows users to format and copy disks and to include a run-time UCSD Pascal operating system.
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- OED2
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Inherited from Late Latin fīlāre. Derivable from fil + -er.
Pronunciation
Verb
filer
- (transitive) to spin (a web)
- (transitive) to thread through (a crowd)
- (intransitive) to spin a thread (of syrup, or syrup-like substances)
- (intransitive, informal) to leave, to get going, to scram, to slip through
- Synonyms: se tailler, se barrer, se casser
- (transitive, informal) to pass, to hand, to give
- (nautical, transitive) to ease a line
- (transitive) (police) to tail, track
- 1920, Maurice Leblanc, Les Dents du tigrefr.Wikisource:
- - Il a averti le préfet ? - Parbleu, et le préfet a donné l’ordre aux camarades de vous filer.
- - He warned the Prefect? - Hell, the Prefect ordered his lads to shadow you.
- (transitive, Louisiana) to season and thicken gumbo with filé powder
Conjugation
Conjugation of filer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | filer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | filant /fi.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | filé /fi.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | file /fil/ |
files /fil/ |
file /fil/ |
filons /fi.lɔ̃/ |
filez /fi.le/ |
filent /fil/ |
| imperfect | filais /fi.lɛ/ |
filais /fi.lɛ/ |
filait /fi.lɛ/ |
filions /fi.ljɔ̃/ |
filiez /fi.lje/ |
filaient /fi.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | filai /fi.le/ |
filas /fi.la/ |
fila /fi.la/ |
filâmes /fi.lam/ |
filâtes /fi.lat/ |
filèrent /fi.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | filerai /fil.ʁe/ |
fileras /fil.ʁa/ |
filera /fil.ʁa/ |
filerons /fil.ʁɔ̃/ |
filerez /fil.ʁe/ |
fileront /fil.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | filerais /fil.ʁɛ/ |
filerais /fil.ʁɛ/ |
filerait /fil.ʁɛ/ |
filerions /fi.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
fileriez /fi.lə.ʁje/ |
fileraient /fil.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | file /fil/ |
files /fil/ |
file /fil/ |
filions /fi.ljɔ̃/ |
filiez /fi.lje/ |
filent /fil/ |
| imperfect2 | filasse /fi.las/ |
filasses /fi.las/ |
filât /fi.la/ |
filassions /fi.la.sjɔ̃/ |
filassiez /fi.la.sje/ |
filassent /fi.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | file /fil/ |
— | filons /fi.lɔ̃/ |
filez /fi.le/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “filer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Anagrams
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Hungarian fillér.
Noun
filer m (plural fileri)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | filer | filerul | fileri | filerii | |
| genitive-dative | filer | filerului | fileri | filerilor | |
| vocative | filerule | filerilor | |||
Swedish
Noun
filer
- indefinite plural of fil