File and Routine

File

File verb - To make smooth by friction.

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

Nearby Words: filed, filing, filer

Routine noun - An established and often automatic or monotonous series of actions followed when engaging in some activity.

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File and routine are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "File" instead a verb "Routine".

Nearby Word: routinely

old	old file	old routine
special	special file	special routine
long	long file	long routine
exact	exact file	exact routine
Other adjectives: original, fake, simple, entire, huge, bad, new, final.

Worse still, there was no way of aborting the cleanup routine, and if you killed the Firefox process, it would just invoke the file cleaner again as soon as you restarted the browser.

Source: Darth Wiki / Idiot Programming
Inverted with Herbert Morrison, a radio reporter who in 1937 went to file what he thought was just going to be a routine story about the first arrival of a new German airship in New Jersey and ended up seeing the Hindenburg crash barely a few dozen feet in front of him.

Source: Going for the Big Scoop
In the Star Trek pilot (the second one, "Where No Man Has Gone Before") it's apparently a routine thing for people in the future to be tested for ESP, and their ESP quotient is on file along with more mundane statistics such as height, weight and age.

Source: Humans Are Psychic in the Future

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