File and Kind

File

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

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

Nearby Words: filed, filing, filer

Kind noun - A number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common.

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File and kind are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "File" instead a noun "Kind".

Nearby Words: kindly, kindness, kindliness

old	old file	old kind
rare	rare file	rare kind
special	special file	special kind
specific	specific file	specific kind
Other adjectives: right, certain, original, many, true, single, large, wrong, bad, new, last, different.

Ctrl+Alt+Del went from kind of scribbley to clean and consistent thanks to a file of body parts, and later he goes back to drawing all the characters individually.

Source: Art Evolution / Web Comics
The Big Board: Saul draws the undesirable task of trying to file Carrie's color-coded Room Full of Crazy into some kind of order, and this is the result.

Source: Series / Homeland
In extreme cases, the game can permanently 'brand' the player's save file with some kind of designation to indicate the use of cheat codes (some games can erase their save file outright).

Source: No Fair Cheating

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Kind and File. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/file/kind

File & Kind. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/file/kind>.

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