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Vinony

fillet

noun

  1. cut or slice of boneless meat or fish
  2. form of redaction using dashes within words
  3. rounded edge or corner of a manufactured object
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verb

  1. to divide into fillets
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈfɪl.ɪt/ / /fɪˈleɪ/

noun

Etymology: From Middle English filet, vylette, felet, filette, flette, from Old French filet, diminutive of fil (“thread”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”).

  1. A headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration.

    “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.”

  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.

    “Fillet of a Fenny Snake, / In the Cauldron boyle and bake:”

  6. 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.

    “fillet steak”

  7. A thin featureless moulding/molding used as separation between broader decorative mouldings.
  8. The space between two flutings in a shaft.
  9. An ordinary equal in breadth to one quarter of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
  10. The thread of a screw.
  11. A colored or gilded border.

    “Fairer than gods and naked as the moon, The foamy fillets at their ankles strewn Less marble-white than they”

  12. The raised moulding around the muzzle of a gun.
  13. Any scantling smaller than a batten.
  14. A fascia; a band of fibres; applied especially to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
  15. The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English filet, vylette, felet, filette, flette, from Old French filet, diminutive of fil (“thread”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”).

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