| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Fillet.[Websters]
2. To be ribboned, striped or rayed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have banded, stripped, taped or snaffled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be belted or sashed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have pegged or pinned. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be networked or latticed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have chocked, skidded or spragged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To be corded or ribbed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have tipped or cornered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To be chamfered or throated.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb fillet.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (fillet) | 1. Decorate with a lace of geometric designs.[Wordnet]. 2. Cut into filets.[Wordnet]. 3. To bind, furnish, or adorn with a fillet.[Websters]. 4. Base verb from the following inflections: filleting, filleted, fillets, filleter, filleters, filletingly and filletedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FILLETED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1611. (references) |
Specialty Definition: fillet
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] A little band to tie about the hair of the head. A belt her waist, a fillet binds her hair.. | 2: [Noun] The fleshy part of the thigh; applied to veal; as a fillet of veal.. | 3: [Noun] Meat rolled together and tied round.. | 4: [Noun] In architecture, a little square member or ornament used in divers places, but generally as a corona over a greater molding; called also listel.. | 5: [Noun] In heraldry, a kind of orle or bordure, containing only the third or fourth part of the breadth of the common bordure. it runs quite round near the edge, as a lace over a cloke.. | 6: [Noun] Among painters and gilders, a little rule or reglet of leaf-gold, drawn over certain moldings, or on the edges of frames, pannels, &c., especially when painted white, by way of enrichment.. | 7: [Noun] In the manege, the loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.. | 8: [Verb] to bind with a fillet or little band.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Aerospace | 1: Debris (soil) piled against a rock; several scientists have suggested that the volume of the fillet may be directly proportional to the time the rock has been in its present position and to the rock size. (references) | 2: Material faired into the angle formed by the junction of two surfaces, primarily to relieve stress concentrations at the junction. (references) | |
| Electrical Engineering | A concave junction formed where two surfaces meet. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Fisheries | A slice of boneless muscle tissue of fish. (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) | ||
| Industry | 1: A fillet that conceals the joint between jamb and reveal. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: A stick or strip of wood used to separate courses in a stack and so improve air circulation. Source: European Union. (references) | 3: 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) | 4: Card sliver, long continuous card clothing. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Literature | 1: 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. 2: Fillet. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Mechanical Engineering | Transition from tooth flank to gullet. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Technology | In bookbinding, a fine band or line impressed on the sides and/or spine of a book cover for decorative effect. Also refers to the rolling tool used, when heated, to apply such lines. A French fillet consists of three unevenly-spaced lines to which gilding is added. (references) | ||
| Transportation | 1: A fairing at the junction of two surfaces to improve the airflow; a concave corner piece used on foundry patterns. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: Aerodynamic fairing giving radius at junction of two surfaces. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Wikipedic | Fillet was an early cooking webzine dedicated to fine dining, which appeared in HotWired from 1996-1997. The site was edited and produced by Adam Vincent Powell, and featured weekly articles by Rebecca Vesely, Lessley Anderson, Pableaux Johnson, and others. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (also filet) A strip or compact piece of meat or fish from which any bones have been removed. (references) | 2: [Noun] (architecture) A thin flat moulding/molding used as separation between larger mouldings. (references) | 3: [Noun] (clothing) A flat piece of cloth used as a headband esp. with a wimple. (references) | 4: [Noun] (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an inside edge, added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges. (references) | 5: [Verb] (transitive) To apply, create, or specify a rounded or filled corner to. (references) | 6: [Verb] (transitive) To slice, bone or make into fillets. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Common Expressions: fillet
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Arris fillet | A triangular piece of wood used to raise the slates of a roof against a chimney or wall, to throw off the rain. --Gwilt. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Fillet of sole | Lean flesh of any of several flatfish. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Fish fillet | A longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Rattlesnake fillet | Preheat and oil a 12 Dutch oven with 18-20 coals on the bottom for frying. Melt the butter and add a little oil to prevent the butter from burning and fry the meat until it is lightly browned. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: fillet
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Card clothing fillet | Occupations | A long, narrow strip of foundation material studded with many fine, closely spaced, wire teeth. (references) | |
| Ridge fillet | Mining | A runner or principal channel for molten metal. (references) | |
| Wing fillet | Transportation | Aerodynamic fairing giving radius at junction of two surfaces. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: fillet | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Fillet | 18 | Fillet | 18 | |
| Fillet (mechanics) | 6 | Fillet (cut) | 4 | |
| Fillet (picture framing) | 6 | Fillet (mechanics) | 6 | |
| Fillet (cut) | 4 | Fillet (picture framing) | 6 | |
| Fillet of Beef Prince Albert | 3 | Fillet of Beef Prince Albert | 3 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
