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Fillet
//ˈfɪl.ɪt// noun, verb
Definitions
Noun
- 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 lace having a square mesh wordnet
- 3 A thin strip of any material, in various technical uses.
- 4 fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members wordnet
- 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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- 6 a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband wordnet
- 7 A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an inside edge, added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.
- 8 a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus wordnet
- 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:"
- 10 a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish wordnet
- 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"
- 12 a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef wordnet
- 13 A thin featureless moulding/molding used as separation between broader decorative mouldings.
- 14 The space between two flutings in a shaft.
- 15 An ordinary equal in breadth to one quarter of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
- 16 The thread of a screw.
- 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"
- 18 The raised moulding around the muzzle of a gun.
- 19 Any scantling smaller than a batten.
- 20 A fascia; a band of fibres; applied especially to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
- 21 The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.
Verb
- 1 To slice, bone or make into fillets. transitive
- 2 cut into filets wordnet
- 3 To apply, create, or specify a rounded or filled corner to. transitive
- 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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