fillet
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ɪt; noun
1.
Cookery.
a.
a boneless cut or slice of meat or fish, especially the beef tenderloin.
b.
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.
a decorative line impressed on a book cover, usually at the top and bottom of the back.
b.
a rolling tool for impressing such lines.
6.
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.
verb (used with object)
10.
Cookery.
a.
to cut or prepare (meat or fish) as a fillet.
b.
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.
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| either one of the seventh pair of cranial nerves composed of motor fibers that control muscles of the face except those used in chewing |
| a cord or band of dense, tough, inelastic, white, fibrous tissue, serving to connect a muscle with a bone or part; sinew |
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| —n | |
| 1. | a. Also called: fillet steak a strip of boneless meat, esp the undercut of a sirloin of beef |
| b. the boned side of a fish | |
| c. the white meat of breast and wing of a chicken | |
| 2. | a narrow strip of any material |
| 3. | a thin strip of ribbon, lace, etc, worn in the hair or around the neck |
| 4. | a narrow flat moulding, esp one between other mouldings |
| 5. | a narrow band between two adjacent flutings on the shaft of a column |
| 6. | Also called: fillet weld a narrow strip of welded metal of approximately triangular cross-section used to join steel members at right angles |
| 7. | heraldry a horizontal division of a shield, one quarter of the depth of the chief |
| 8. | listel, Also called: list the top member of a cornice |
| 9. | anatomy Technical name: lemniscus a band of sensory nerve fibres in the brain connected to the thalamus |
| 10. | a. a narrow decorative line, impressed on the cover of a book |
| b. a wheel tool used to impress such lines | |
| 11. | another name for fairing |
| —vb , -lets, -leting, -leted | |
| 12. | to cut or prepare (meat or fish) as a fillet |
| 13. | to cut fillets from (meat or fish) |
| 14. | anatomy to surgically remove a bone from (part of the body) so that only soft tissue remains |
| 15. | to bind or decorate with or as if with a fillet |
| [C14: from Old French filet, from fil thread, from Latin fīlum] | |
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Word Origin & History
fillet
early 14c., "headband," from O.Fr. filet, dim. of fil "thread." Sense of "cut of meat or fish" is early 15c., apparently so called because it was prepared by being tied up with a string.
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Medical Dictionary
fillet fil·let (fĭl'ĭt)
n.
A loop of cord or tape used for making traction on a part of the fetus.
A loop-shaped band of fibers, especially the lemniscus.
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fillet
(from Latin filum, "thread"), in architecture, the characteristically rectangular or square ribbonlike bands that separate moldings and ornaments. Fillets are common in classical architecture (in which they also may be found between the flutings of columns) and in Gothic architecture. In the Early English and Decorated styles of the 13th and 14th centuries, respectively, the fillet is frequently worked upon larger moldings and column shafts; in these cases it is not always flat but rather is sometimes cut into two or more narrow faces that have sharp edges between them. See also molding
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Example sentences
What you are served is a fillet of white fish in a moat of white broth in a white bowl.
Those who catch their own can have vendors fillet and wrap the fish.
Top each fillet with a rosemary branch and several slices of lemon.
Place a fillet on each piece of foil, skin side down if there is skin on the fish.
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