What's the difference between filing and riling?

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.

Riling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rile

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In fact, it soon became clear that if there was anything designed to get Tony really riled, it was talk of God.
  • (2) We are Protestant Christians, so by sending monks to chant sutras they were trying to get us riled up,” a member of one Zhejiang church told Radio Free Asia , a US-funded news website.
  • (3) Gui Minhai: the strange disappearance of a publisher who riled China's elite Read more Five Hong Kong booksellers – Gui Minhai, Lee Bo, Lui Bo, Cheung Ji-ping and Lam Wing-kei – who specialised in books criticising China’s Communist party elite have vanished since October.
  • (4) Francesco Totti has escaped with a spell on the naughty step for goading Lazio fans in the wake of Sunday's Rome derby, but has been fined €10,000 for each thumb he pointed down in a bid to rile them up.
  • (5) Golly; so riled is Abrams that he has committed a Hollywood solecism – you never tell anyone not to come.
  • (6) How Spurs craved someone similarly streetwise 7 Tottenham Hotspur Hugo Lloris Wrongfooted by deflections for both Chelsea goals, with the reality he did well to deny Cahill and Fàbregas scant consolation 6 Kyle Walker Eager to push on down the flank but exposed by Hazard’s slippery running and not tight enough to Costa at Chelsea’s second 5 Chelsea old guard triumph but Spurs academy talent point to future | David Hytner Read more Eric Dier Riled by Costa from the moment they clashed five minutes in.
  • (7) How it must rile politicians that, while only 18% of the public believe them to tell the truth , and just 34% of us believe business leaders, trade union officials are trusted by 41%.
  • (8) The benefits system is due for review again in 2013, with the prospect of another round of strikes if the government riles performers and technicians.
  • (9) George Osborne has riled his Liberal Democrat colleagues by trying to take the credit for the increase (so far) in the starting point for income tax from £6,475 to £10,000, a notably popular policy that has lifted about 2 million people out of income tax altogether.
  • (10) He made his points firmly, but was careful to avoid sounding riled.
  • (11) For socialists, taxation has a moral element and the suspicion the wealthy were “getting away with it” riled my father in a way it did not a pragmatic one-nation Tory like me.
  • (12) Instead, what often counts in politics is the spectacle of people being riled by this or that example of clumsy tinkering, particularly if any proposed change has some symbolic resonance.
  • (13) The couple's definition of success has riled some readers, revolving, as it does, around the bald data of income and education levels.
  • (14) But it never dared to, for fear that Hamdan's risqué music would rile Mubarak-era authorities.
  • (15) Varoufakis, the academic-turned-politician who has riled his eurozone counterparts, said he would not remain finance minister on Monday if Greece voted yes.
  • (16) But just try not to retaliate too aggressively or get too riled … Like I've said before: On the whole people are 'good', lets concentrate on that."
  • (17) Her presence at the parade – while an obvious indication of the political reconciliation she is attempting to achieve – is sure to rile supporters and critics, many of whom question her political integrity and increasing closeness with a group that quashed dissent for nearly 50 years and has been accused of committing genocide against ethnic Rohingya Muslims.
  • (18) Hayward, who riled Barack Obama by saying the amount of crude tipped into the Gulf of Mexico since the 20 April explosion was relatively "tiny" and that he "wanted his life back", even though 11 people died in the explosion, will be replaced by Bob Dudley , a BP veteran who is currently overseeing the clean-up of the oil spill.
  • (19) And she believes the distinctive paint job is a provocative gesture that has riled neighbours.
  • (20) ­Pellegrini, riled by Mourinho's dash across his box, hardly offered a vote of confidence in his later mumbled assessment.

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