Sanding vs. Filing: What's the Difference?
Sanding and Filing Definitions
Sanding
Small loose grains of worn or disintegrated rock.
Filing
A container, such as a cabinet or folder, for keeping papers in order.
Sanding
(Geology) A sedimentary material, finer than a granule and coarser than silt, with grains between 0.06 and 2.0 millimeters in diameter.
Filing
A collection of papers or published materials kept or arranged in convenient order.
Sanding
Often sands A tract of land covered with sand, as a beach or desert.
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Filing
(Computers) A collection of data or program records stored as a unit with a single name.
Sanding
The loose, granular, gritty particles in an hourglass.
Filing
A line of persons, animals, or things positioned one behind the other.
Sanding
Sands Moments of allotted time or duration
"The sands are numb'red that makes up my life" (Shakespeare).
Filing
A line of troops or military vehicles so positioned.
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Sanding
(Slang) Courage; stamina; perseverance
"She had more sand in her than any girl I ever see.
In my opinion she was just full of sand" (Mark Twain).
Filing
(Games) Any of the rows of squares that run forward and backward between players on a playing board in chess or checkers.
Sanding
A light grayish brown to yellowish gray.
Filing
(Archaic) A list or roll.
Sanding
To sprinkle or cover with or as if with sand.
Filing
An official document that is filed with a court, government agency, or other legal or political institution.
Sanding
To polish or scrape with sand or sandpaper.
Filing
Any of several hardened steel tools with cutting ridges for forming, smoothing, or reducing especially metallic surfaces.
Sanding
To mix with sand.
Filing
A nail file.
Sanding
To fill up (a harbor) with sand.
Filing
Chiefly British A crafty or artful person.
Sanding
Present participle of sand
Filing
The act or an instance of using a file.
Sanding
The act or process by which something is sanded; the application of sandpaper, etc.
Filing
A particle or shaving removed by a file
Metal filings.
Sanding
A type of dancing where the floor is covered in sand. See Sanding (dance).
Filing
To put or keep (papers, for example) in useful order for storage or reference.
Sanding
The process of testing the surface of gilding, after it has been fired, with fine sand and water.
Filing
To enter (a legal document) as an official record.
Sanding
The process of burying oysters in sand.
Filing
To send or submit (copy) to a newspaper.
Sanding
The process of applying sand to rails in railway track to aid adhesion.
Filing
To initiate (a lawsuit)
File a complaint.
File charges.
Filing
To march or walk in a line.
Filing
To put items in a file.
Filing
To make application; apply
Filed for a job with the state.
File for a divorce.
Filing
To enter one's name in a political contest
Filed for Congress.
Filing
To smooth, reduce, or remove with or as if with a file.
Filing
To sully or defile.
Filing
Any particle that has been removed by a file or similar implement; a shaving.
The process left metal filings all over the bench and the part.
Filing
The act of storing documents in an archive; archiving.
Filing
Something that has been officially filed; a document on file.
Filing
Present participle of file
Filing
A fragment or particle rubbed off by the act of filing; as, iron filings.
Filing
The entering of a legal document into the public record;
He filed a complaint
He filed his tax return
Filing
A fragment rubbed off by the use of a file
Filing
The act of using a file (as in shaping or smoothing an object)
Filing
Preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc.;
I have some filing to do