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fillet
/fɪˈleɪ/
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What does fillet mean?
noun
- 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.
More meanings (14)
noun
- A strip or compact piece of meat or fish from which any bones and skin and feathers have been removed.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- (archaic) A headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration.
verb
- To slice, bone or make into fillets.
- To apply, create, or specify a rounded or filled corner to.
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IPA pronunciation
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After they have cooked for a few minutes, powder them with flour, and strew over each fillet some chopped pistacchio nuts.
The old man had a fillet of white feathers tied round his head, which partly confined his black, coarse, and entangled hair.
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There was a loosened fillet of wild flowers about his head, and his eyes, under their drooped lids, looked straight into the cup.
In one in Butler County, Ohio, was found a copper fillet around the head of a skeleton, with strange devices marked upon it.
I took it up, and saw that she had made a green fillet such as she wore herself, and fastened it about its mimic eyes.