These are the meanings of the letters FILME when you unscramble them.
- File (n.)
A roll or list.
- File (n.)
A row of soldiers ranged one behind another; -- in contradistinction to rank, which designates a row of soldiers standing abreast; a number consisting the depth of a body of troops, which, in the ordinary modern formation, consists of two men, the battalion standing two deep, or in two ranks.
- File (n.)
A shrewd or artful person.
- File (n.)
A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc.
- File (n.)
An orderly collection of papers, arranged in sequence or classified for preservation and reference; as, files of letters or of newspapers; this mail brings English files to the 15th instant.
- File (n.)
An orderly succession; a line; a row
- File (n.)
Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively.
- File (n.)
Course of thought; thread of narration.
- File (n.)
The line, wire, or other contrivance, by which papers are put and kept in order.
- File (v. i.)
To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another; -- generally with off.
- File (v. t.)
To bring before a court or legislative body by presenting proper papers in a regular way; as, to file a petition or bill.
- File (v. t.)
To make foul; to defile.
- File (v. t.)
To put upon the files or among the records of a court; to note on (a paper) the fact date of its reception in court.
- File (v. t.)
To rub, smooth, or cut away, with a file; to sharpen with a file; as, to file a saw or a tooth.
- File (v. t.)
To set in order; to arrange, or lay away, esp. as papers in a methodical manner for preservation and reverence; to place on file; to insert in its proper place in an arranged body of papers.
- File (v. t.)
To smooth or polish as with a file.
- Film (n.)
A slender thread, as that of a cobweb.
- Film (n.)
A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering.
- Film (v. t.)
To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
- Lief (adv.)
Gladly; willingly; freely; -- now used only in the phrases, had as lief, and would as lief; as, I had, or would, as lief go as not.
- Lief (adv.)
Willing; disposed.
- Lief (n.)
A dear one; a sweetheart.
- Lief (n.)
Dear; beloved.
- Lief (n.)
Pleasing; agreeable; acceptable; preferable.
- Lief (n.)
Same as Lif.
- Life (n.)
A certain way or manner of living with respect to conditions, circumstances, character, conduct, occupation, etc.; hence, human affairs; also, lives, considered collectively, as a distinct class or type; as, low life; a good or evil life; the life of Indians, or of miners.
- Life (n.)
A history of the acts and events of a life; a biography; as, Johnson wrote the life of Milton.
- Life (n.)
A person; a living being, usually a human being; as, many lives were sacrificed.
- Life (n.)
An essential constituent of life, esp. the blood.
- Life (n.)
Animation; spirit; vivacity; vigor; energy.
- Life (n.)
Enjoyment in the right use of the powers; especially, a spiritual existence; happiness in the favor of God; heavenly felicity.
- Life (n.)
Figuratively: The potential or animating principle, also, the period of duration, of anything that is conceived of as resembling a natural organism in structure or functions; as, the life of a state, a machine, or a book; authority is the life of government.
- Life (n.)
Of human beings: The union of the soul and body; also, the duration of their union; sometimes, the deathless quality or existence of the soul; as, man is a creature having an immortal life.
- Life (n.)
Something dear to one as one's existence; a darling; -- used as a term of endearment.
- Life (n.)
That which imparts or excites spirit or vigor; that upon which enjoyment or success depends; as, he was the life of the company, or of the enterprise.
- Life (n.)
The living or actual form, person, thing, or state; as, a picture or a description from the life.
- Life (n.)
The potential principle, or force, by which the organs of animals and plants are started and continued in the performance of their several and cooperative functions; the vital force, whether regarded as physical or spiritual.
- Life (n.)
The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that state of an animal or plant in which all or any of its organs are capable of performing all or any of their functions; -- used of all animal and vegetable organisms.
- Life (n.)
The system of animal nature; animals in general, or considered collectively.
- Lime (n.)
A fruit allied to the lemon, but much smaller; also, the tree which bears it. There are two kinds; Citrus Medica, var. acida which is intensely sour, and the sweet lime (C. Medica, var. Limetta) which is only slightly sour.
- Lime (n.)
A thong by which a dog is led; a leash.
- Lime (n.)
Birdlime.
- Lime (n.)
Oxide of calcium; the white or gray, caustic substance, usually called quicklime, obtained by calcining limestone or shells, the heat driving off carbon dioxide and leaving lime. It develops great heat when treated with water, forming slacked lime, and is an essential ingredient of cement, plastering, mortar, etc.
- Lime (n.)
The linden tree. See Linden.
- Lime (v. t.)
To cement.
- Lime (v. t.)
To entangle; to insnare.
- Lime (v. t.)
To smear with a viscous substance, as birdlime.
- Lime (v. t.)
To treat with lime, or oxide or hydrate of calcium; to manure with lime; as, to lime hides for removing the hair; to lime sails in order to whiten them.
- Mile (n.)
A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet.