FILLET

Fillet

A fillet is a cut or slice of boneless meat or fish.

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fillet

Noun

  1. A headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration.
  2. A thin strip of any material, in various technical uses.
  3. A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet.
  4. A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an inside edge, added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.
  5. A strip or compact piece of meat or fish from which any bones and skin and feathers have been removed.
  6. A thin flat moulding/molding used as separation between larger mouldings.
  7. The space between two flutings in a shaft.
  8. An ordinary equally in breadth one quarter of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
  9. The thread of a screw.
  10. A border of broad or narrow lines of colour or gilt.
  11. The raised moulding around the muzzle of a gun.
  12. Any scantling smaller than a batten.
  13. A fascia; a band of fibres; applied especially to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
  14. The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.

Verb

  1. To slice, bone or make into fillets.
  2. To apply, create, or specify a rounded or filled corner to.


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