fillet
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French filet, ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin fīlum (“thread”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: fĭ'lĭt, IPA(key): /ˈfɪ.lɪt/, /ˈfɪˌleɪ̯/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GA" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. (meat senses) IPA(key): /fɪˈleɪ/
Audio (US): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɪlɪt, -eɪ
Noun
fillet (plural fillets)
- (now rare) A headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.iii:
- In secret shadow, farre from all mens sight: / From her faire head her fillet she undight, / And laid her stole aside.
- Alexander Pope
- A fillet binds her hair.
- 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, Mew York 2007, p. 42:
- She was talking of Raymond Duncan, a walking absurdity who dressed in an ancient handwoven Greek costume and wore his hair in long braids reaching to his waist, adding, on ceremonial occasions, a fillet of bay-leaves.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.iii:
- A thin strip of any material, in various technical uses.
- (construction) A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet.
- (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an inside edge, added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.
- A strip or compact piece of meat or fish from which any bones and skin and feathers have been removed.
- (architecture) A thin flat moulding/molding used as separation between larger mouldings.
- (architecture) The space between two flutings in a shaft.
- (heraldry) An ordinary equal in breadth to one quarter of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
- The thread of a screw.
- A border of broad or narrow lines of colour or gilt.
- 1911, George Sterling, The Swimmers[1]:
- Fairer than gods and naked as the moon, The foamy fillets at their ankles strewn Less marble-white than they
- The raised moulding around the muzzle of a gun.
- (woodworking) Any scantling smaller than a batten.
- (anatomy) A fascia; a band of fibres; applied especially to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
- The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.
Synonyms
- (a boneless cut of meat): filet
Antonyms
- (rounded outside edge): round
Derived terms
Translations
headband, ribbon
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thin strip of any material
construction: heavy bead of waterproofing
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engineering: rounded relief or cut
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strip of deboned meat or fish
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architecture: thin flat molding
architecture: space between two flutings
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heraldry: ordinary
thread of a screw
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border of line of colour
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raised moulding around the muzzle
scantling
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anatomy: fascia
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loins of a horse
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Further reading
Verb
fillet (third-person singular simple present fillets, present participle filleting, simple past and past participle filleted)
- (transitive) To slice, bone or make into fillets.
- (transitive) To apply, create, or specify a rounded or filled corner to.
Synonyms
Translations
to make into fillets
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to apply, etc, a rounded or filled corner to
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