File and History

File

File noun - A series of persons or things arranged one behind another.

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History and file are semantically related. In some cases you can use "History" instead a noun "File".

Nearby Words: filed, filing, filer

History noun - An account of important events in the order in which they happened.

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File and history are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "File" instead a noun "History".

old	old file	old history
long	long file	long history
original	original file	original history
true	true file	true history
Other adjectives: entire, extensive, bad, criminal, personal, secret, new, military, different, recent, previous, medical.

A few seasons later, Nog is looking at a file about Earth history, and he finds a section on this guy with a picture.

Source: Literature / The Prisoner of Zenda
The suspect's file warns that her history of painful abuse could make torture ineffective and sure enough, it is.

Source: Torture Is Ineffective
A psychotic researcher arranged for her file to be transferred to the testing area because she had the right stuff to take on GLaDOS, and the rest is history.

Source: Determinator / Video Games

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