Fillet

Definitions: Fillet

Fillet

Noun

1. A boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef.

2. A longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish.

3. A bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus.

4. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.

5. Fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members.

Verb

1. Decorate with a filet.

2. Cut into filets, as of fish or meat.

Date "fillet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Building & Civil Engineering	A fillet that conceals the joint between jamb and reveal. Source: European Union. (references)
Electrical Engineering	A concave junction formed where two surfaces meet. Source: European Union. (references)
Food & Agriculture	A)longitudinal strips of muscle taken from the musculature parallel to the vertebral column, b)strips of muscle from the abdominal wall; in this case, the fillets may be described as abdominal fillets, too. Source: European Union. (references)
	A stick or strip of wood used to separate courses in a stack and so improve air circulation. Source: European Union. (references)
Industry	An oblong piece of wood with constant(and relatively small)cross-section, normally shaped to fit against a plane surface and most frequently profiled. Source: European Union. (references)
	Card sliver, long continuous card clothing. Source: European Union. (references)
Literature	Fillet A narrow band round the head for binding the hair, or simply for ornament. Aurelian was the first Roman emperor that wore a royal fillet or diadem in public. In the time of Constantine the fillet was adorned with precious stones. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Mechanical Engineering	Transition from tooth flank to gullet. Source: European Union. (references)
Physics	A fairing at the junction of two surfaces to improve the airflow; a concave cornerpiece used on foundry patterns. Source: European Union. (references)
Transportation	Aerodynamic fairing giving radius at junction of two surfaces. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Fillet

Synonyms: fish filet (n), fish fillet (n), lemniscus (n), stopping (n), taenia (n), tenia (n), filet (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Circularity	Circle, circlet, ring, areola, hoop, roundlet, annulus, annulet, bracelet, armlet; ringlet; eye, loop, wheel; cycle, orb, orbit, rundle, zone, belt, cordon, band; contrate wheel, crown wheel; hub; nave; sash, girdle, cestus, cincture, baldric, fillet, fascia, wreath, garland; crown, corona, coronet, chaplet, snood, necklace, collar; noose, lasso, lassoo.
Connection	Fastener, fastening, tie; ligament, ligature; strap; tackle, rigging; standing rigging, running rigging; traces, harness; yoke; band ribband, bandage; brace, roller, fillet; inkle; with, withe, withy; thong, braid; girder, tiebeam; girth, girdle, cestus, garter, halter, noose, lasso, surcingle, knot, running knot; cabestro, cinch, lariat, legadero, oxreim; suspenders.
Filament	Strip, shred, slip, spill, list, band, fillet, fascia, ribbon, riband, roll, lath, splinter, shiver, shaving.
Ornament	Pattern, diaper, powdering, paneling, graining, pargeting; detail; repousse (convexity); texture; richness; tracery, molding, fillet, listel, strapwork, coquillage, flourish, fleur-de-lis, arabesque, fret, anthemion; egg and tongue, egg and dart; astragal, zigzag, acanthus, cartouche; pilaster; (projection); bead, beading; champleve ware, cloisonne ware; frost work, Moresque, Morisco, tooling.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
Books	Fatigue Strength of Transverse Fillet Welded Joints: A Study of the Influence of Joint Geometry (reference) Hypoid Gear Drive with Face-Milled Teeth: Conditions of Pinion Nonundercutting and Fillet Generation (reference) Joints With Fillet Welds (Materials Science Monographs, No 27) (reference) Standard data for arc welding : tables of synthetic times and consumable usage for arc welding fillet welds (5-25mm leg length) and butt welds (3-25mm plate thickness) in carbon steels using either manual metal-arc welding or semi-automatic COb2s weldin (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Horseradish Crusted Salmon Fillet (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Consumer Goods	Freud 38-202 1-1/4" Diameter Ogee and Fillet Router Bit with 1/4" Shank (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	It is all black, except the fillet, which is white.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Fillet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.92% of the time. "Fillet" is used about 118 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	94.92%	112	30,646
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	3.39%	4	175,879
Noun (common)	1.69%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	118	N/A

Expressions using "fillet": arris fillet ♦ fillet of beef ♦ fillet of fish ♦ fillet of pork ♦ fillet of sole ♦ fillet of veal ♦ fillet steak ♦ fillet surface ♦ fish fillet ♦ frozen fish fillet ♦ karman fillet ♦ wing fillet. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "fillet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		filetë (chump, tenderloin), vë rrip, shirit (band, bandage, bar, braid, cleat, colors, colours, edging, ribbon, sash, scarf, strap, stria, stripe, Taenia, tape, tapeworm), rrip koke (headband), pres në fileta, lidh me rrip (band, belt, strap, tape). (various references)

Arabic		‏قطع الى شرائح (slice, slit), ‏حلية ضيقة, ‏عصابة للرأس (headdress), ‏شريحة (schnitzel, section, slab, slat, slice, sliver, string), ‏شبكة (connection, connexion, drag, grid, net, network, toil, web). (various references)

Bulgarian		филе (filet, loin, saddle, tenderloin, undercut), нарязвам на резени, надебеление, превръзка (bandage, bandaging, dressing, ligature, suspensory), панделка (band, bow, braid, platband, riband, ribbon, snood), ива (edge, list, sallow, selvage), ивица (band, border, edging, hem, list, slip, strap, streak, stria). (various references)

Chinese		内圆�' (filet, Fillets). (various references)

Czech		filé (steak). (various references)

Danish		formskærm (blister), fodrunding, filletting (filletting), fillet (filletting), filet (brass rule, filet-mignon, fillet mignon, fillet steak, rule, sirloin, tenderloin), stroe (bearer plates, cradle, crosser, grit, piling stick, piling strip, pin, stacking strip, sticker, strip), streng (bead, billet, bridle, cast strand, chorda, cord, funiculus, hank, slip, strand, string, tendon, tined chain), runding (bending, bilge, camber, curl, curvature, rounding, roundness), roulet, mørbrad (filet-mignon, fillet mignon, fillet steak, tenderloin), liste (batten, crest, linked list, list, moulding, pencil slat, slat), indskudsliste, hulkehl, daekliste (corner strip bead), bind (bandage, bandage dressing, bands, binding, braid, case, cover, string, tie, volume). (various references)

Dutch		filet (brass rule, fine cord, rule, slice, string, tailpiece, tenderloin, thread, vein), voetafronding, vloeistuk, vleugelvloeistuk (wing fillet), stapellat (crosser, piling stick, piling strip, pin, stacking strip, sticker, strip), rolletje (roll), profiel (aerofoil, airfoil, edge-jointed layer, functional profile, functional standard, molding, moulding, pattern, profile, section, security profile, shape), lijst (cadre, distance stops, framework, list, listing, molding, moulding, picture-frame, spacer bars, spacing sticks, stops, table, tablet, woven selvedge), lasnaad (fusion seam, soldered joint, welding seam), kreupele stijl (brace, strut), koplat (corner strip bead), haas (hare, swelling), haarband (hair ribbon), band (band, bandage, bandage dressing, binding, bond, border, braid, brim, brink, cover, dance-band, edge, edging, fringe, hoop, jazz-band, ligament, newspaper wrapper, orchestra, ray, ribbon, rim, sheet, steel strip, steelband, strap, string, strip, strip steel, stripe, tape, tie, tire, tyre, volume, wrapper), afronding (pierhead, rounded corner, rounding). (various references)

Esperanto		ligaĵo (braid, string, tie), hararzono (hair ribbon). (various references)

Finnish		fileet, vuorilista (corner strip bead), välipuu (crosser, dominated, dunnage, intermediate, piling stick, piling strip, pin, stacking strip, sticker, strip, subdominant), tyvipyöristys, tyven pyöristys, telapuu (bearer, bolster, crosser, dunnage, piling stick, piling strip, pin, stacking strip, sticker, strip), täytepohjan kannake, täyte (dressing, filler, filling, makeweight, padding, stuffing), sisäfilee (filet-mignon, fillet mignon, fillet steak, tenderloin), rossipohjan kannatinrima, lista (batten, catalog, catalogue, lath, list, listing, moulding, register), kourulista. (various references)

French		filet (fibre, filament). (various references)

German		filet (filet, fillet steak, piece of tenderloin, steak, tenderloin). (various references)

Greek		ταινία (band, bandage, bandage dressing, banderol, banderole, belt, cordon, film, movie, ribbon, strap, streak, strip, stripe, Taenia, tape, tapeworm, tenia). (various references)

Hebrew		�"�' מ�'רם. (various references)

Hungarian		filé (filet, netting), hajlekötő szalag, hajlekötő pánt. (various references)

Italian		nastro (band, belt, hoop, ribbon, sheet, steel strip, steelband, strap, strip, strip steel, tape, web), filetto (border, brass rule, rule, screw thread, snaffle, tenderloin, thread). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�'ルベルト空�" (heroic, heroine, heroism, Hilbert space, Hindu, hinge). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�'レ . (various references)

Korean		�"�심 (filet, Fillets). (various references)

Manx		listey (tilting), jesheenaghey lesh fleayst, fleayst, fillad, cur fillad er. (various references)

Norwegian		filèt. (various references)

Pig Latin		illetfay

Portuguese		moldura (banding, bezel, cadre, chaplet, frame, framework, gorge, lipping, locating stop, models edge, molding box, moulding, moulding box, passepartout, railing, Reed, setting), filete (brass rule, bunting, listen, rule, snaffle, undercut). (various references)

Romanian		folosi un fileu pentru pãr, fileu (Chine, netting, snood), filet, file (loin, sirloin), tãia fileuri din, panglicã (band, bind, braid, cordon, hatband, lace, riband, ribbon, strip, tape), muşchi (moss, motor, muscle, muscularity, musculation, musculature, sinew, sirloin, tenderloin, thews), desface în fileuri, cordeluţã, coamã (coping, crest, mane, ridge). (various references)

Russian		филе (filet, loin, sirloin, sirloins), обвязывать лентой, лента (band, ribbon, sash, strip, tape), повязка (armband, armlet, bandage, swathe). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		file (filet, undercut), uska traka, pripremati file. (various references)

Spanish		filete (brass rule, cincture, creel, filet, rule, rumpsteak, slice, snaffle, steak, thread). (various references)

Swedish		filea (filet), file (filet, netting, tenderloin), strö (bearer, bedding, bolster, brancard, crosser, dunnage, piling stick, piling strip, pin, stacking strip, sticker, strew, strip, tier), smyglist (corner strip bead), pannband (filet, headband), list (art, artifice, baguette, cunning, edging, finesse, guile, lath, ledge, list, listing, moulding, ruse, selvedge, shift, striations, trick, wile, woven selvedge), hårband (bandeau, bandeaux, filet, hair-ribbon), hålkäl, blindbottenläkt, bindel (band, bandage, filet, roller bandage, sling), binda upp (filet, tie up, truss), binda (attach, bind, connect, contain, fasten, filet, hold, immobilize, join, peg down, roller bandage, secure, tie, tie down, tie up, truss). (various references)

Thai		ชิ้นปลาหรือเนื้อที่ไม่มีกระ�"ูก (filet), ผูก�"้วยริบบิ้น (filet), สายรั�"ผม (filet), ตั�"ชิ้นเนื้อที่ไม่มีกระ�"ูก (filet). (various references)

Turkish		fileto yapmak, fileto (filet, loin), kemiksiz et, dolgu (core, filling, inlay, plug, stopping, stuffing, wadding), bantlamak (band, strap, tape), bant (band, binding, braid, court plaster, cushion, fascia, recording, ribbon, scotch tape, strap, strapping, strip, tape, welt), şerit takmak, şerit (band, braid, cord, fascia, gut, lace, riband, ribbon, roadway, spline, strap, strip, stripe, tab, tape, tapeworm, traffic lane, welt). (various references)

Turkmen		зylka. (various references)

Ukranian		стрічка (band, filet, riband, ribbon, sash, snood, tag, tape), філей (chump, filet, sirloin), філе (filet, loin), готувати філе (filet), обв'язувати стрічкою (filet). (various references)

Vietnamese		thịt bò cuốn, dây bưng. (various references)

Welsh		ffunen (kerchief, lace), ysnoden (band, ribbon). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	infula, vitta, vittae, vittas. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	nombles. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Jeremiah Chapter 52, Verse 21
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai oi stuloi triakonta pente phcwn uyoV tou stulou tou enoV kai spartion dwdeka phcewn periekuklou auton kai to pacoV autou daktulwn tessarwn kuklw
Latin	405	Vulgate	De columnis autem decem et octo cubiti altitudinis erant in columna una et funiculus duodecim cubitorum circuibat eam porro grossitudo eius quattuor digitorum et intrinsecus cava erat
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Of the pileres forsothe, eiytetene cubitis of heiyte weren in the o piler, and a litil corde of twelue cubitus wente aboute it; but his gretnesse of foure fingris, and with ynne forth `it was holy.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And concerning the pillars, the hight of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits encompassed it; and the thickness of it was four fingers: it was hollow.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And as for the pillars, one pillar was eighteen cubits high, and twelve cubits measured all round, and it was as thick as a man's hand: it was hollow.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Jeremiah Chapter 52, Verse 21
Cebuano	Ug mahatungod sa mga haligi, ang gitaas-on sa usa ka haligi napulo ug walo ka maniko; ug usa ka gitas-on nga napulo ug duha ka maniko nga nagalibut niini; ug ang gibag-on niini upat ka tudlo; ug kadto lungagan.
Croatian	Prvi stup bijaše visok osamnaest lakata - obuhvatiti ga je mogao konop od dvanaest lakata - bijaše èetiri prsta debeo, a šupalj.
Danish	Atten Alen høj var hver Søjle, og en Snor på tolv Alen kunde nå om den, og den var hul, og Kobberet var fire Fingre tykt.
Dutch	Aangaande de pilaren, achttien ellen was de hoogte eens pilaars, en een draad van twaalf ellen omving hem; en zijn dikte was vier vingeren, en hij was hol.
Finnish	Pylväistä oli toisen pylvään korkeus kahdeksantoista kyynärää, ja kahdentoista kyynärän pituinen nauha ulottui sen ympäri. Sen vahvuus oli neljä sormenleveyttä; se oli ontto.
French	La hauteur de l`une des colonnes était de dix-huit coudées, et un cordon de douze coudées l`entourait; elle était creuse, et son épaisseur avait quatre doigts;
German	Der zwei Säulen aber war eine jegliche achtzehn Ellen hoch, und eine Schnur, zwölf Ellen lang, reichte um sie her, und war eine jegliche vier Finger dick und inwendig hohl;
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Adapun akan kedua tiang itu tingginya delapan belas hasta sebatang tiang dan adalah sulur batang kelilingnya yang dua belas hasta, tebalnya empat jari, lagi dengan geronggangnya.
Maori	Na ko nga pou, kotahi tekau ma waru whatianga te tiketike o te pou kotahi; tekau ma rua hoki nga whatianga o te aho hei pae mona; na, ko te matotoru, e wha nga ringa: he tuwhera a roto.
Norwegian	Og om søilene er å si at den ene søile var atten alen høi, og en tråd på tolv alen nådde omkring den; den var fire fingrer tykk, og hul.
Portuguese	Dessas colunas, a altura de cada um era de dezoito côvados; doze côvados era a medida da sua circunferência; e era a sua espessura de quatro dedos; e era oca.
Rumanian	Knqlyimea unuia din stklpi era de optsprezece coyi, wi un fir de doisprezece coyi kl cuprindea; era gol wi gros de patru degete;
Russian	уФПМ�'Щ УЙЙ �'ЩМЙ ЛБЦ�"ЩК УФПМ�' Ч ЧПУЕНОБ�"�"БФШ МПЛФЕК ЧЩЫЙОЩ, Й ЫОХТПЛ Ч �"ЧЕОБ�"�"БФШ МПЛФЕК П�'ОЙНБМ ЕЗП, Б ФПМЭЙОБ УФЕОПЛ ЕЗП ЧОХФТЙ � ХУФПЗП, Ч ЮЕФЩТЕ � ЕТУФБ.
Swedish	Och vad pelarna angår, så var den ena pelaren aderton alnar hög, och en tolv alnar lång tråd mätte dess omfång, och den var fyra finger tjock ooh ihålig.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "fillet": filleted, filleting, fillets. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Fillet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fallec, falleth, Fallot, fallut, fiblet, fillal, fillen, filleth, fillit, fillo, fillot, Fillou, Filnet, Filteau, Follet, Follette, foullet, Fulletby, Lillet, Sillet, Tillet. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "fillet" (pronounced fulā")
4	f u l ā"	filet.
3	-u l ā"	allay, chalet, delay, Palais.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-f-i-l-l-t"
	-1 letter: filet, fille, flite.
	-2 letters: fell, felt, file, fill, flit, left, lief, life, lift, lilt, lite, tell, tile, till.
	-3 letters: eft, elf, ell, fet, fie, fil, fit, ill, lei, let, lie, lit, tel, tie, til.
	-4 letters: ef, el, et, if, it, li, ti.
	Words containing the letters "e-f-i-l-l-t"
	+1 letter: fillets.
	+2 letters: fellatio, feltlike, filleted, flatline, futilely, helilift, liftable, loftlike, stellify, tefillin, telefilm.
	+3 letters: fellating, fellation, fellatios, fertilely, filleting, filtrable, flatlined, flatliner, flatlines, flintlike, flutelike, frilliest, helilifts, lifestyle, plentiful, telefilms.
	+4 letters: delightful, fellations, feuilleton, fibrillate, filterable, flatliners, fleetingly, fleshliest, flightless, fluviatile, helilifted, inflatable, leafleting, lifestyles, pitifuller, spitefully, stellified, stellifies, thimbleful.
	+5 letters: battlefield, beautifully, bullfighter, deceitfully, faithlessly, falteringly, feuilletons, fibrillated, fibrillates, flexibility, foretelling, fruitfuller, fruitlessly, fulfillment, helilifting, inflatables, inflectable, influential, leafletting, mellifluent, painfullest, patelliform, pitifullest, plentifully, shiftlessly, spitefuller, stellifying, thimblefuls.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 69 6C 6C 65 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01101001 01101100 01101100 01100101 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0069 006C 006C 0065 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
fillet	196	fillet gauge weld	8
fish fillet	107	fillet pike	8
chick fillet	62	bass fillet	8
fillet knife	46	fillet of sole	8
salmon fillet recipe	31	fish fillet recipe	6
fillet mignon	28	cod fillet recipe	6
fillet finger five	22	flounder fillet	6
catfish fillet	21	fillet of sole recipe	6
chic fillet	19	fillet finger	6
fillet northern pike	19	5 fillet finger	6
electric fillet knife	19	fish fillet knife	6
salmon fillet	17	best fillet knife	5
trout fillet	15	fillet grilled salmon	5
fillet mignon recipe	13	fillet gloves	4
fillet walleye	13	bluegill fillet	4
fillet steak	12	basa fillet	4
chik fillet	11	cleaning fillet fish	4
chick fillet restaurant	11	fillet minion	4
fillet weld	10	beef fillet	4
baked fillet recipe salmon	9	fillet restaurant sole	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Fillet

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Fillet

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Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

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Alternative Orthography: Fillet

46 69 6C 6C 65 74

..-. .. .-.. .-.. . -

01000110 01101001 01101100 01101100 01100101 01110100

&#70 &#105 &#108 &#108 &#101 &#116

0046 0069 006C 006C 0065 0074

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