Having indigestion after eating some fillet while working isn't one of the best things to do.
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Fillet
//ˈfɪl.ɪt//
Synonyms for "fillet" (86 found)
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Closest matches (18)
Strong matches (25)
Related words (43)
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More general
20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
Antonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
4 entriesderived
10 entrieshas context
9 entriesis a
4 entriesmanner of
2 entriespart of
1 entriesrelated to
40 entriesShowing 16 of 40 words.
Translations
110 translations across 34 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ταινία noun (headband, ribbon)
Arabic
1 entries- شَبَكَة noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
Bulgarian
4 entries- лента noun (thin strip of any material)
- панделка noun (headband, ribbon)
- филе́ noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
- нарязвам на филета verb (to make into fillets)
Burmese
1 entries- ပိုကျကှနျကို noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
Czech
4 entries- filé noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
- plátek noun (thin strip of any material)
- plátek noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
- řízek noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
Dutch
1 entries- filet noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
Esperanto
1 entries- fileo noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
Finnish
4 entries- filee noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
- harjanne noun (architecture: space between two flutings)
- kalvo noun (anatomy: fascia)
- kierre noun (thread of a screw)
French
4 entries- congé noun (engineering: rounded relief or cut)
- filet noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
- désosser verb (to make into fillets)
- lever les filets verb (to make into fillets)
German
4 entries- Abdichtband noun (construction: heavy bead of waterproofing)
- Abdichtung noun (construction: heavy bead of waterproofing)
- Auskehlung noun (engineering: rounded relief or cut)
- Band noun (thin strip of any material)
Greek
1 entries- φιλέτο noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
Hungarian
1 entries- filé noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
Icelandic
2 entries- flak noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
- lundir noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
Irish
3 entries- fleasc noun (engineering: rounded relief or cut)
- fleasc noun (architecture: thin flat molding)
- líosta noun (architecture: thin flat molding)
Italian
3 entries- filetto noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
- disossare verb (to make into fillets)
- sfilettare verb (to make into fillets)
Korean
1 entries- 필레 noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
Latin
1 entries- vitta noun (headband, ribbon)
Latvian
1 entries- filejs noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
Mongolian
1 entries- цэвэр noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
Māori
4 entries- hōripi noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
- tauri noun (headband, ribbon)
- hōripi verb (to make into fillets)
- kōhaha verb (to make into fillets)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- filet noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- filet noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
Old English
1 entries- þwæle noun (headband, ribbon)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- صاچ باغی noun (headband, ribbon)
Persian
1 entries- فیله noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
Polish
3 entries- filetować verb (to make into fillets)
- odfiletować verb (to make into fillets)
- wyfiletować verb (to make into fillets)
Portuguese
1 entries- filé noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
Romanian
4 entries- file noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
- filet noun (thread of a screw)
- ghivent noun (thread of a screw)
- fileta verb (to make into fillets)
Russian
2 entries- филе́ noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
- филе́й noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
Spanish
1 entries- filete noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
Swedish
2 entries- filé noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
- filea verb (to make into fillets)
Turkish
1 entries- fileto noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
Ukrainian
1 entries- філе́ noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
Yiddish
1 entries- פֿילע noun (strip of deboned meat or fish)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
The table was served with baked potatoes and seasoned chicken fillet.
Source: tatoeba (5705787)
Another reason many Americans avoid eating Asian carp is that it is bony, difficult to fillet and hard to sell in fresh fish markets.
Source: tatoeba (7767374)
"Do you think this salmon's still all right to eat, Tom?" asked Mary. Tom regarded the fillet slices on the plate with suspicion, wrinkling his nose when he encountered a particular smell. "Best throw it away," he replied, doing so immediately.
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