filing

C2+ Topic:The Human Body

US /ˈfaɪlɪŋ/ UK /ˈfaɪlɪŋ/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
a document submitted to an official body, or a particle filed off metal

The company made its quarterly filing on time.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a document submitted to an... submission registration record document shaving particle

Word family

Related forms file

Etymology

From the verb file + -ing. The 'document' sense is from file, from French filer ('to string documents on a thread'), from Latin filum ('thread'); the 'metal particle' sense is from Old English fēol ('a file, rasp').

filum Latin

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Topics

The Human Body Word Formation & Derivatives

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# filing

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈfaɪlɪŋ/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈfaɪlɪŋ/

## Meanings
1. a document submitted to an official body, or a particle filed off metal

## Examples
- The company made its quarterly filing on time.

## Synonyms
- submission
- registration
- record
- document
- shaving
- particle

## Related Forms
- file

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: filum

## Etymology
From the verb file + -ing. The 'document' sense is from file, from French filer ('to string documents on a thread'), from Latin filum ('thread'); the 'metal particle' sense is from Old English fēol ('a file, rasp').

## AI Etymology
Filing comes from the verb file + -ing. The 'document' sense is from file, from French filer ('to string documents on a thread'), from Latin filum ('thread'); the 'metal particle' sense is from Old English fēol ('a file, rasp'). Morphologically, the account is both compositional and suffixal: -ing marks the visible structure by which the older base becomes the modern form. In present use, it is used as a noun meaning "a document submitted to an official body, or a particle filed off metal", so the historical material remains connected with the current sense rather than standing as bare ancestry. The wider English family includes related forms such as file, showing how the same historical material continues to organize neighboring vocabulary. The named historical forms include Latin filum, keeping the history tied to concrete forms rather than a loose resemblance. Its semantic neighborhood includes submission, registration, record, and document, locating the modern specialization without adding a new origin story.

## Topics
- The Human Body
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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