fillet.
A headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration.
Meaning & usage
A headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration.
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.
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
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.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English filet, vylette, felet, filette, flette, from Old French filet, diminutive of fil (“thread”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”).
To slice, bone or make into fillets.
To apply, create, or specify a rounded or filled corner to.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English filet, vylette, felet, filette, flette, from Old French filet, diminutive of fil (“thread”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”).
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