File
File noun - A series of persons or things arranged one behind another.
How words are described
| special | special file | special loop |
| long | long file | long loop |
| right | right file | right loop |
| current | current file | current loop |
| Other adjectives: original, single, entire, huge, new, final, next, last, different, previous, resulting. | ||
Common collocations
| rank | file rank | loop rank |
| form | file form | loop form |
| time | file time | loop time |
| characters | file characters | loop characters |
| Other words: bars. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Sitting at Lora's terminal, he was getting ready to put the MCP into a logic loop so he could search for his file uninhibited.
Source: Film / TRON - In reality it's only about an eight-line paragraph, but repeated so many times that it covers nearly two softcover pages - and audiobook readers may start to wonder if their file is stuck in a loop.
Source: Discworld / Unseen Academicals -
At the end of the Hostage Situation, the erstwhile dickish and obstructive Chad throws Hopper (who has been taken into custody) a bone, telling him not to bother searching Chad's office in the next loop because he can find the file that Hopper needs in Chad's parked car.
Source: Series / Day Break
Cite this Source
Loop and File. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/file/loop
File & Loop. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/file/loop>.
Loop or File. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/file/loop.
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