Fillet

Quick meaning: Fillet is a noun meaning (now rare) A headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration.

Meaning

(now rare) A headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration.

More Meanings

1. A thin strip of any material, in various technical uses.
2. A strip or compact piece of meat or fish from which any bones and skin and feathers have been removed.
3. (architecture) A thin featureless moulding/molding used as separation between broader decorative mouldings.
4. (architecture) The space between two flutings in a shaft.
5. (construction) A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet.
6. (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.
7. (UK) 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.

Example Sentences

fillet steak

A fillet binds her hair.

Fillet of a Fenny Snake, / In the Cauldron boyle and bake:

Fairer than gods and naked as the moon, The foamy fillets at their ankles strewn Less marble-white than they

Word Forms

• fillets
• filet
• filleting
• filleted

Synonyms for fillet

Depending on context, synonyms include filet, bone, debone, taenia, tenia, stopping.

Antonyms for fillet

Common opposites include round.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include taenia, filet, tenia, stopping, lemniscus, snood.

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