fillet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English filet, vylette, felet, filette, flette, from Old French filet, diminutive of fil (“thread”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”).
Inflected forms:
form: fillets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: filet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
form: fillets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: filleting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: filleted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: filleted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: filet
pos: verb
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: A headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: In secret shadow, farre from all mens sight:
 From her faire head her fillet she undight,
 And laid her stole aside.
A fillet binds her hair.
"Know thy own worth, and reverence the lyre," is a line that should be as a fillet bound round the brow—a philactory embroidered on the garments of every son and daughter of Adam distinguished by the possession of that sacred gift, which, whether used or abused, applauded in itself or derided in its possessor, is the highest and the most inalienable distinction humanity ever has or ever can be gifted with, whether bestowed on the highest or the humblest being, in the great mass to which we all belong.
She was talking of Raymond Duncan, a walking absurdity who dressed in an ancient handwoven Greek costume and wore his hair in long braids reaching to his waist, adding, on ceremonial occasions, a fillet of bay-leaves.
gloss: A thin strip of any material, in various technical uses.
pos: noun
gloss: A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet.
pos: noun
gloss: A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an inside edge, added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.
pos: noun
gloss: A strip or compact piece of meat or fish from which any bones and skin and feathers have been removed.
pos: noun
examples: Fillet of a Fenny Snake, / In the Cauldron boyle and bake:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: fillet steak
gloss: A thin featureless moulding/molding used as separation between broader decorative mouldings.
pos: noun
gloss: The space between two flutings in a shaft.
pos: noun
gloss: An ordinary equal in breadth to one quarter of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
pos: noun
gloss: The thread of a screw.
pos: noun
gloss: A colored or gilded border.
pos: noun
examples: Fairer than gods and naked as the moon, The foamy fillets at their ankles strewn Less marble-white than they
gloss: The raised moulding around the muzzle of a gun.
pos: noun
gloss: Any scantling smaller than a batten.
pos: noun
gloss: A fascia; a band of fibres; applied especially to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
pos: noun
gloss: The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.
pos: noun
gloss: To slice, bone or make into fillets.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To apply, create, or specify a rounded or filled corner to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Antonyms: round
Derived words: chicken fillet
eye fillet
fillet knife
filletlike
fillet weld
green fillet
rolled fillet
Scotch fillet
filletable
filleter
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