Music Definition–noun | 1. | an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color. |
| 2. | the tones or sounds employed, occurring in single line (melody) or multiple lines (harmony), and sounded or to be sounded by one or more voices or instruments, or both. |
| 3. | musical work or compositions for singing or playing. |
| 4. | the written or printed score of a musical composition. |
| 5. | such scores collectively. |
| 6. | any sweet, pleasing, or harmonious sounds or sound: the music of the waves. |
| 7. | appreciation of or responsiveness to musical sounds or harmonies: Music was in his very soul. |
| 8. | Fox Hunting. the cry of the hounds. |
—Idiom| 9. | face the music, to meet, take, or accept the consequences of one's mistakes, actions, etc.: He's squandered his money and now he's got to face the music. |
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File Definition–noun | 1. | a folder, cabinet, or other container in which papers, letters, etc., are arranged in convenient order for storage or reference. |
| 2. | a collection of papers, records, etc., arranged in convenient order: to make a file for a new account. |
| 3. | Computers. a collection of related data or program records stored on some input/output or auxiliary storage medium: This program's main purpose is to update the customer master file. |
| 4. | a line of persons or things arranged one behind another (distinguished from rank). |
| 5. | Military. | a. | a person in front of or behind another in a military formation. |
| b. | one step on a promotion list. |
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| 6. | one of the vertical lines of squares on a chessboard. |
| 8. | a string or wire on which papers are strung for preservation and reference. |
–verb (used with object)
| 10. | to arrange (papers, records, etc.) in convenient order for storage or reference. |
| 11. | Journalism. | a. | to arrange (copy) in the proper order for transmittal by wire. |
| b. | to transmit (copy), as by wire or telephone: He filed copy from Madrid all through the war. |
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–verb (used without object) | 12. | to march in a file or line, one after another, as soldiers: The parade filed past endlessly. |
| 13. | to make application: to file for a civil-service job. |
—Idiom| 14. | on file, arranged in order for convenient reference; in a file: The names are on file in the office. |
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Sharing Definition–noun | 1. | the full or proper portion or part allotted or belonging to or contributed or owed by an individual or group. |
| 2. | one of the equal fractional parts into which the capital stock of a joint-stock company or a corporation is divided. |
–verb (used with object) | 3. | to divide and distribute in shares; apportion. |
| 4. | to use, participate in,
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enjoy, receive, etc., jointly: The two chemists shared the Nobel prize. |
–verb (used without object) | 5. | to have a share or part; take part (often fol. by in). |
| 6. | to divide, apportion, or receive equally. |
—Idiom| 7. | on or upon shares, on the principle of sharing the profits or losses of an undertaking: They agreed to work on shares. |
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