Fillet

//ˈfɪl.ɪt// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration. archaic

    "In secret shadow, farre from all mens sight: From her faire head her fillet she undight, And laid her stole aside."

  2. 2
    lace having a square mesh wordnet
  3. 3
    A thin strip of any material, in various technical uses.
  4. 4
    fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members wordnet
  5. 5
    A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet.
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  1. 6
    a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband wordnet
  2. 7
    A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an inside edge, added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.
  3. 8
    a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus wordnet
  4. 9
    A strip or compact piece of meat or fish from which any bones and skin and feathers have been removed.

    "Fillet of a Fenny Snake, / In the Cauldron boyle and bake:"

  5. 10
    a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish wordnet
  6. 11
    A premium cut of meat, especially beef, taken from below the lower back of the animal, considered to be lean and tender; also called tenderloin. UK

    "fillet steak"

  7. 12
    a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef wordnet
  8. 13
    A thin featureless moulding/molding used as separation between broader decorative mouldings.
  9. 14
    The space between two flutings in a shaft.
  10. 15
    An ordinary equal in breadth to one quarter of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
  11. 16
    The thread of a screw.
  12. 17
    A colored or gilded border.

    "Fairer than gods and naked as the moon, The foamy fillets at their ankles strewn Less marble-white than they"

  13. 18
    The raised moulding around the muzzle of a gun.
  14. 19
    Any scantling smaller than a batten.
  15. 20
    A fascia; a band of fibres; applied especially to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
  16. 21
    The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.
Verb
  1. 1
    To slice, bone or make into fillets. transitive
  2. 2
    cut into filets wordnet
  3. 3
    To apply, create, or specify a rounded or filled corner to. transitive
  4. 4
    decorate with a lace of geometric designs wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English filet, vylette, felet, filette, flette, from Old French filet, diminutive of fil (“thread”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English filet, vylette, felet, filette, flette, from Old French filet, diminutive of fil (“thread”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”).

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