filer

From file +‎ -er.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪlɚ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɪlə(ɹ)

filer (plural filers)

1. One who files something.
   • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:

     Hitherto I have hoarded up mementoes and monuments of the past; been a worshiper of all heirlooms; a fond filer away of letters, locks of hair, bits of ribbon, flowers, […]

2. (computing) A software program for managing files.
   • 1983 February 28, InfoWorld, volume 5, number 9, page 28:

     The filer allows users to format and copy disks and to include a run-time UCSD Pascal operating system.

• e-filer
• nonfiler

• rank-and-filer

• OED2

• Friel, flier, lifer, rifle

Inherited from Late Latin fīlāre. Derivable from fil +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /fi.le/

• Audio:

  (file)

filer

1. (transitive) to spin (a web)
2. (transitive) to thread through (a crowd)
3. (intransitive) to spin a thread (of syrup, or syrup-like substances)
4. (intransitive, informal) to leave, to get going, to scram, to slip through

   Synonyms: se tailler, se barrer, se casser

5. (transitive, informal) to pass, to hand, to give

   Synonyms: passer, donner

   Tu pourrais me filer le sel, s'il-te-plaît ?

   Can you gimme the salt, please?

6. (nautical, transitive) to ease a line
7. (transitive) (police) to tail, track
   • 1920, Maurice Leblanc, Les Dents du tigre‎^{fr.Wikisource}:

     - Il a averti le préfet ? - Parbleu, et le préfet a donné l’ordre aux camarades de vous filer.

     - He warned the Prefect? - Hell, the Prefect ordered his lads to shadow you.

8. (transitive, Louisiana) to season and thicken gumbo with filé powder

• “filer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• rifle, riflé

Borrowed from Hungarian fillér.

filer m (plural fileri)

1. fillér

filer

1. indefinite plural of fil