Any of various snakes resembling a file in texture or appearance, especially a wart snake or a non-venomous South African snake of the genus Mehelya.

small fragments of iron, filed from a bar; used to visualize the presence of a magnetic field, and as a food additive

(law) A fee assessed against a party initiating a lawsuit, or other legal process, e.g. filing a patent.

(computing) A data file containing only plain, human-readable text, distinct from documents with embedded formatting

plural of filing fee

Enlisted soldiers in a military organization, as would be arrayed in a grid pattern with ranks and files. / (idiomatic) Members of an organization who are not in leadership positions.

(computing) A file produced by a diff program. / (computing) A file describing changes made to a computer file or files.

(computing) A file input to a patch program. / (computing) A file containing changes to be applied to another file or files, usually changes made to a computer program that fix a programming bug.

(computing) A type of sequential file consisting of multiple data records with the same fields.

(computing) A file which consists of the same record types that is stored on a secondary storage device. The physical sequence of records may be based upon sorting values of one or more data items or fields.