fillet
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fillet
- /ˈfɪl.ɪt/
- /fɪˈleɪ/ US
Rhymes with -ɪlɪt, -eɪ, -ɪt
Where it comes from
From Middle English filet, vylette, felet, filette, flette, from Old French filet, diminutive of fil (“thread”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”).
noun fillets · filet
- A headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration. In secret shadow, farre from all mens sight: From her faire head her fillet she undight, And laid her stole aside.
- A thin strip of any material, in various technical uses.
- A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet.
- 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. Fillet of a Fenny Snake, / In the Cauldron boyle and bake:
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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.
fillet steak
Similar: filet
- A thin featureless moulding/molding used as separation between broader decorative mouldings.
- The space between two flutings in a shaft.
- 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 colored or gilded border. 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.
- Any scantling smaller than a batten.
- 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.
Opposite: round
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noun
Opposite: round
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noun construction: heavy bead of waterproofing
| Deutsch | Dichtfuge, Dichtleiste, Dichtband, Abdichtung, Abdichtband |
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noun engineering: rounded relief or cut
| Français | congé |
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| Deutsch | Kehle, Hohlkehle, Auskehlung, Rundung, Innenkehle |
noun strip of deboned meat or fish
| Español | filete |
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| 한국어 | 필레 pille |
| Português | filé |
| Français | filet |
| Deutsch | Filet, Lendenstück |
| Italiano | filetto |
| Ελληνικά | φιλέτο filéto |
| Română | file |
| Русский | филе́ filé, филе́й filéj |
| العربية | شَبَكَة šabaka |
noun architecture: space between two flutings
| Deutsch | Kannelüre |
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noun thread of a screw
| Deutsch | Gewinde, Schraubengewinde, Schraubgewinde |
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| Română | filet, ghivent |
verb to make into fillets
| Français | désosser, lever les filets |
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| Italiano | disossare, sfilettare |
| Română | fileta |
verb to apply, etc, a rounded or filled corner to
| Deutsch | abkehlen |
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