What's the difference between fifing and filing?

Fifing


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Filing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of File
  • (n.) A fragment or particle rubbed off by the act of filing; as, iron filings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The charges against Harrison were filed just after two white men were accused of fatally shooting three black people in Tulsa in what prosecutors said were racially motivated attacks.
  • (2) The New York Times, which shared the files with the Guardian and US National Public Radio, said it did not obtain them from WikiLeaks.
  • (3) The system has been successfully used for 18 months to create directories for a teaching file, for presentations, and for clinical research.
  • (4) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
  • (5) According to the report filed by the New York state department of financial services (NYSDFS), when warned by a US colleague about dealings with Iran, a Standard Chartered executive caustically replied: "You f---ing Americans.
  • (6) The department has redacted the IP addresses and details of network owners who downloaded the file.
  • (7) He then read out nine of the 2,116 incident reports that make up the Nauru files.
  • (8) He received five years for one count of conspiracy and three years for two counts of filing a false tax return.
  • (9) A computer program, computer-readable model-file and computer-based 3D printer can (in theory) encapsulate the expertise of a skilled machinist and deploy it on demand wherever a 3D printer is to be found.
  • (10) Tension heightened last week after Davis continued to refuse licenses to couples; on Friday, she filed a request to the supreme court to stay the lower court’s decision.
  • (11) The filings do not contain any clues about the size of the settlement that the DoJ was hoping to reach with Barclays, although the bank is thought to have been prepared to pay up to $2bn (£1.6bn).
  • (12) In 2001, they filed a $4bn (£2.17bn) lawsuit against the government and two German firms in the US.
  • (13) Another feature of TWINAN90 is the optional output of a pedigree file which can be read by the quantitative genetics package FISHER.
  • (14) THE PERKINS FILE Born Susan Elizabeth Perkins, 22 September 1969 in Croydon, south London.
  • (15) One suspects theatregoers will be encouraged to keep their electronic devices on, with live data used to demonstrate some of the content of the Snowden files .
  • (16) According to shareholder Marvin Pearlstein, in a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Manhattan on Friday, the Canadian-based BlackBerry, formerly Research In Motion Ltd, misled investors last year by saying the company was "progressing on its financial and operational commitments," and that previews of its BlackBerry 10 platform had been well received by developers.
  • (17) Sometimes the way the MP [military policeman] holds the head chokes me, and with all the nerves in the nose the tube passing the nose is like torture,” Dhiab said in a legal filing.
  • (18) A number of other news organisations yesterday published reports based on files they had received from WikiLeaks.
  • (19) (4) The majority view was that the data for both types of files should come from more than one agency.
  • (20) Her post- X-Files performances have been carefully chosen and doggedly unstarry.

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