filed

filed · verb

imported

Definitions

verb

  1. 1.

    Past tense and past participle of *file*; placed documents or records in a systematic order.

  2. 2.

    Submitted officially or placed on record.

  3. 3.

    Smoothed or shaped with a file (tool).

  4. 4.

    Walked in a line.

Related words

See also: file, files, filing
Synonyms: recorded, registered, stored, submitted

Etymology

Past tense of file, from Latin filum ("thread"), referring to a string on which papers were threaded. The tool sense comes from Old English feol.