fillet

Meanings

Plural: fillets

Noun

• a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef
• a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish
• a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus
• a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband
• fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members
• A headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration.
• A thin strip of any material, in various technical uses.
• A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet.
• A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an inside edge, added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.
• A strip or compact piece of meat or fish from which any bones and skin and feathers have been removed.
• 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.
• A thin featureless moulding/molding used as separation between broader decorative mouldings.
• The space between two flutings in a shaft.
• An ordinary equal in breadth to one quarter of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
• The thread of a screw.
• A colored or gilded border.
• The raised moulding around the muzzle of a gun.
• Any scantling smaller than a batten.
• A fascia; a band of fibres; applied especially to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
• The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.

Verb

• decorate with a lace of geometric designs
• cut into filets
• To slice, bone or make into fillets.
• To apply, create, or specify a rounded or filled corner to.

Synonyms

bone, debone, filet, fish filet, fish fillet, lemniscus, stopping, taenia, tenia

Antonyms

round