• enPR: fĭ'lĭt, IPA: /ˈfɪ.lɪt/, /ˈfɪˌleɪ̯/
  • (GA) (meat senses) IPA: /fɪˈleɪ/

fillet (plural fillets)

  1. (now rare) A headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.iii:
      In secret shadow, farre from all mens sight: / From her faire head her fillet she undight, / And laid her stole aside.
    • 1713, Alexander Pope, Windsor Forest:
      A fillet binds her hair.
    • 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, Mew York 2007, p. 42:
  2. A fine strip of any material, in various technical uses.
  3. (construction) A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet.
  4. (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.
  5. A strip or compact piece of meat or fish from which any bones and skin and feathers have been removed.
  6. (architecture) A fine flat moulding/molding used as separation between coarser mouldings.
  7. (architecture) The space between two flutings in a shaft.
  8. (heraldiccharge) An ordinary equal in breadth to one quarter of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
  9. The thread of a screw.
  10. A colored or gilded border.
  11. The raised moulding around the muzzle of a gun.
  12. (woodworking) Any scantling smaller than a batten.
  13. (anatomy) A fascia; a band of fibres; applied especially to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
  • (a boneless cut of meat) filet
  • (rounded outside edge) round
Translations Translations Translations
  • German: Dichtfuge, Dichtleiste
Translations Translations Translations Translations
  • German: Kannelüre
  • German: Gewinde, Schraubengewinde, Schraubgewinde
Translations Verb

fillet (fillets, present participle filleting; past and past participle filleted)

  1. (transitive) To slice, bone or make into fillets.
  2. (transitive) To apply, create, or specify a rounded or filled corner to.
Synonyms Translations
  • French: désosser, lever les filets
  • Italian: disossare

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