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single file

noun

  1. a line of persons or things arranged one behind the other; Indian file.


single file

noun

  1. a line of persons, animals, or things ranged one behind the other, either stationary or moving
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of single file1

First recorded in 1660–70
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Example Sentences

You can also protect single files on Preview as long as they’re saved as PDFs, and use the Notes app to create protected files with embedded photos.

The single file line snaked slowly and the candidates handled the break differently.

Even show ponies are not exempt from ending up in a narrowing chute that feeds the condemned in single file into the “stun box.”

They parked single file along the Mall, delivering a small army of people.

We walked single-file toward a wooded area, the two rifles positioned as reassuring bookends.

He remembers lining up single file every day to get on the school bus to bring him home.

The sides of the notch were steep, and the boys rode through it in single file, Matt taking the lead.

It was a fine reach down Southampton Water, the three close together in single file.

They were riding single file along a narrow jungle-path when Koyala's horse stumbled over a hidden creeper.

With one exception these are lost to-day, for so far as known there is not a single file of the Enterprise in existence.

The rest followed him in single file, going pretty slow, so as to enable us to keep up to them.

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