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to interfile

to interfile

8.1
Put documents between other papers in a file or on a shelf
  • verb
  • /ˌɪntərˈfaɪl/
translation icon : intercalar
  • He decided to interfile the reports in a way that would make them easier to find.

Examples

  • These letters are interfiled with all other letters to keep them organized.

  • Album leaves have become separated from one another, and Taber prints have been mounted and interfiled with earlier prints.

    Academic text (2004)

  • The pending periodicals project addressed a growing trend in academic libraries to interfile bound periodical material by call number with the monographs in the general stacks.

    Academic text (2014)

  • The new documents were interfiled among the existing files to maintain order.

Synonyms

to file
vsto interfile
89 1.8

To put papers in order so they can be found later

inserts documents among existing sequence rather than storing broadly for retrieval
to collate
vsto interfile
12 5.8

To gather and arrange pages or papers in the correct order

places an item between existing items rather than arranging whole sets
to interleave
vsto interfile
1 7.5

To put pages or data between other pages to organize them

puts something into an existing sequence rather than doing repeated alternation

How Organized

to index
17 4.2
to interfile
8.1
to file
89 1.8
to stack
138 1.6
to scatter
187 2.8

Surface Forms

interfile infinitive
interfiled past
interfiled past participle
interfiling present participle
interfiles third person singular

Morphology

interfile = file (transparent) = inter + file

The meaning is directly derived from 'file' with the prefix 'inter-' indicating between or among.

Etymology

Interfile comes from the prefix inter- meaning 'between', like in international, and the word file, as in 'file folder' or a row of papers. So to interfile is to place documents 'between' other items in order.