Definitions for fillet
fillet
fil·let
Spelling: [fil-it; usually fi-ley for 1, 10]
IPA: /ˈfɪl ɪt; usually fɪˈleɪ for 1, 10/
Fillet is a 6 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 71 anagrams from letters in fillet (efillt).
Definitions for fillet
noun
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Cookery.
a boneless cut or slice of meat or fish, especially the beef tenderloin.
a piece of veal or other meat boned, rolled, and tied for roasting.
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a narrow band of ribbon or the like worn around the head, usually as an ornament; headband.
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any narrow strip, as wood or metal.
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a strip of any material used for binding.
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Bookbinding.
a decorative line impressed on a book cover, usually at the top and bottom of the back.
a rolling tool for impressing such lines.
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Architecture.
Also called list. a narrow flat molding or area, raised or sunk between larger moldings or areas.
a narrow portion of the surface of a column left between adjoining flutes.
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Anatomy. lemniscus.
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a raised rim or ridge, as a ring on the muzzle of a gun.
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Metallurgy. a concave strip forming a rounded interior angle in a foundry pattern.
verb (used with object)
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Cookery.
to cut or prepare (meat or fish) as a fillet.
to cut fillets from.
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to bind or adorn with or as if with a fillet.
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Machinery. to round off (an interior angle) with a fillet.
Origin of fillet
1300-50; Middle English filet Anglo-French, Middle French, equivalent to fil thread + -et -et
Examples for fillet
Thin and fillet a pair of soles, each weighing about a pound.
I would at any time prefer a slice off the fillet of a buffalo to any pheasant.
If the leafwork on the helm were tossed up backward, it would hide the fillet.
fillet a sole and interlard each piece with a bit of anchovy.
She said that "the most expensive piece of meat in a local butcher [in France] is a fillet of horse meat."
He remained all day on the sea-shore, his head only held on to his body by a fillet.
The woman was in white fur with a fillet of seaweed round her head.
A snood or fillet of blue ribbon confined her luxuriant hair.
We'll have peas with the fillet, and potato balls and Brussels sprouts.
The hair was blonde, and bound by a fillet (infula) woven of gold.