Fillet (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. Cooking.
    • 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.
  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. 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.
  6. Architecture.
    • 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.
  7. lemniscus.
  8. a raised rim or ridge, as a ring on the muzzle of a gun.
  9. a concave strip forming a rounded interior angle in a foundry pattern.
verb (used with object)
  1. Cooking.
    • to cut or prepare (meat or fish) as a fillet.
    • to cut fillets from.
  2. to bind or adorn with or as if with a fillet.
  3. to round off (an interior angle) with a fillet.
noun
    • a strip of boneless meat, esp the undercut of a sirloin of beef
    • the boned side of a fish
    • the white meat of breast and wing of a chicken
  1. a narrow strip of any material
  2. a thin strip of ribbon, lace, etc, worn in the hair or around the neck
  3. a narrow flat moulding, esp one between other mouldings
  4. a narrow band between two adjacent flutings on the shaft of a column
  5. a narrow strip of welded metal of approximately triangular cross-section used to join steel members at right angles
  6. a horizontal division of a shield, one quarter of the depth of the chief
  7. the top member of a cornice
  8. a band of sensory nerve fibres in the brain connected to the thalamus
    • a narrow decorative line, impressed on the cover of a book
    • a wheel tool used to impress such lines
  9. another name for fairing 1
verb -lets, -leting or -leted (tr)
  1. to cut or prepare (meat or fish) as a fillet
  2. to cut fillets from (meat or fish)
  3. to surgically remove a bone from (part of the body) so that only soft tissue remains
  4. to bind or decorate with or as if with a fillet
Fillet (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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