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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.
EXPANDBookbinding.
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.
Architecture.
a.
Also called list. a narrow flat molding or area, raised or sunk between larger moldings or areas.
b.
a narrow portion of the surface of a column left between adjoining flutes.
7.
Anatomy. lemniscus.
8.
a raised rim or ridge, as a ring on the muzzle of a gun.
9.
COLLAPSEMetallurgy. 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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Filleted
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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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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American Heritage
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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