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Definitions for Fillet

[1] Cookery . a boneless cut or slice of meat or fish, especially the beef tenderloin. a piece of veal or other meat boned, rolled, and tied for roasting.
[2] a narrow band of ribbon or the like worn around the head, usually as an ornament; headband.
[3] any narrow strip, as wood or metal.
[4] a strip of any material used for binding.
[5] Bookbinding . a decorative line impressed on a book cover, usually at the top and bottom of the back. a rolling tool for impressing such lines.
[6] Architecture . Also called list. a narrow flat molding or area, raised or sunk between larger moldings or areas. a narrow portion of the surface of a column left between adjoining flutes.
[7] Anatomy . lemniscus.
[8] a raised rim or ridge, as a ring on the muzzle of a gun.
[9] Metallurgy . a concave strip forming a rounded interior angle in a foundry pattern.
[10] Cookery . to cut or prepare (meat or fish) as a fillet. to cut fillets from.
[11] to bind or adorn with or as if with a fillet.
[12] Machinery . to round off (an interior angle) with a fillet.
[13] Also called: fillet steak a strip of boneless meat, esp the undercut of a sirloin of beef the boned side of a fish the white meat of breast and wing of a chicken
[14] a narrow strip of any material
[15] a thin strip of ribbon, lace, etc, worn in the hair or around the neck
[16] a narrow flat moulding, esp one between other mouldings
[17] a narrow band between two adjacent flutings on the shaft of a column
[18] Also called: fillet weld a narrow strip of welded metal of approximately triangular cross-section used to join steel members at right angles
[19] heraldry a horizontal division of a shield, one quarter of the depth of the chief
[20] Also called: listel , list the top member of a cornice
[21] anatomy a band of sensory nerve fibres in the brain connected to the thalamus Technical name: lemniscus
[22] a narrow decorative line, impressed on the cover of a book a wheel tool used to impress such lines
[23] another name for fairing 1
[24] to cut or prepare (meat or fish) as a fillet
[25] to cut fillets from (meat or fish)
[26] anatomy to surgically remove a bone from (part of the body) so that only soft tissue remains
[27] to bind or decorate with or as if with a fillet

Words related to Fillet

fish, slice, meat, ridge, garland, molding, wreath, crown, band, tape, ribbon, strip, chaplet, snood, headband, bandeau, listel

Words nearby Fillet

filled milk, filled to the brim, filler, filler cap, filler metal, fillet, fillet weld, filleting, filling, filling defect, filling station

Origin of Fillet

1300–50; Middle English filet < Anglo-French, Middle French, equivalent to fil thread + -et -et

Word origin for Fillet

C14: from Old French filet , from fil thread, from Latin fīlum

Synonyms for Fillet

fish, meat, slice, band, bandeau, chaplet, crown, garland, headband, molding, ribbon, ridge, snood, strip, tape, wreath, listel