fillet
/ˈfɪl.ɪt//fɪˈleɪ/
fillet noun: a headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration.
Noun
fillet (plural fillets)
- 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.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC - A fillet binds her hair.1713, [Alexander] Pope, Windsor-Forest. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC
- In secret shadow, farre from all mens sight:
- 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.
- Fillet of a Fenny Snake, / In the Cauldron boyle and bake:c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
- 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
- Synonyms:
- filet
- 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.
- Fairer than gods and naked as the moon, The foamy fillets at their ankles strewn Less marble-white than they1911, George Sterling, The Swimmers
- The raised moulding around the muzzle of a gun.
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- 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
fillet (third-person singular simple present fillets, present participle filleting, simple past and past participle filleted)
fillet meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Arabic and Persian
fillet in Tamil
- கக்கத்துண்டு, கக்கப்பட்டி, மூலை, இழுக்கச் சுருக்குக் கயிர், இழுக்கநூல் கட்டு, நரம்புத்திசுக் கிள
fillet in Kannada
- ಮೂಲೆ ದುಂಡಾಗಿಸು
fillet in Arabic
- strip of deboned meat or fish
- شَبَكَة šabaka
fillet in Persian
- strip of deboned meat or fish
- فیله file
More languagesFewer languages
- fillet in Myanmar
- ပိုကျကှနျကို po kya khanya ko
Examples of fillet in a sentence
- A quality fillet knife makes cleaning fish a simple task after a day of fishing.
- Keep that in mind when searching for a fillet knife; find one with strength, length and sharpness.
- Besides bondline thickness control, the adhesive fillet (called adhesive spew) is an important issue in joint assembly.
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Forms of fillet
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | fillets |
| alternative US | filet |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | fillets |
| present participle | filleting |
| past participle | filleted |
| past | filleted |
Origin of fillet
From Middle English filet, vylette, felet, filette, flette, from Old French filet, diminutive of fil (“thread”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”).
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Words that rhyme with fillet
Questions about fillet
- What does fillet mean?
- Fillet means a headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration.
- What is fillet in Tamil?
- Fillet in Tamil is கக்கத்துண்டு, கக்கப்பட்டி, மூலை. See Fillet meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is fillet?
- Fillet can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce fillet?
- Fillet is pronounced /ˈfɪl.ɪt/.
- What is the plural of fillet?
- The plural of fillet is fillets.
Words near fillet in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fillet (page history and authors); fillet (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fillet (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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