Dictionary Entry
fillet
fillet is a 6-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A little band, especially one intended to encircle the hair of the head. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 20 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A little band, especially one intended to encircle the hair of the head.
- 2noun
A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied.
- 3noun
A thin strip or ribbon; esp.: (a) A strip of metal from which coins are punched. (b) A strip of card clothing. (c) A thin projecting band or strip.
- 4noun
A concave filling in of a reentrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner.
- 5noun
A narrow flat member; especially, a flat molding separating other moldings; a reglet; also, the space between two flutings in a shaft. See Illust. of Base, and Column.
- 6noun
An ordinary equaling in breadth one fourth of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
- 7noun
The thread of a screw.
- 8noun
A border of broad or narrow lines of color or gilt.
- 9noun
The raised molding about the muzzle of a gun.
- 10noun
Any scantling smaller than a batten.
- 11noun
A fascia; a band of fibers; applied esp. to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
- 12noun
The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.
- 13transitive verb
To bind, furnish, or adorn with a fillet.
- 14noun
fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members
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- 15noun
a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband
- 16noun
a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus
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- 17noun
a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish
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- 18noun
a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef
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- 19verb
cut into filets
"filet the fish"
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- 20verb
decorate with a lace of geometric designs
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