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

1. noun. A little band, especially one intended to encircle the hair of the head.
2. noun. A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. A concave filling in of a reentrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner.
5. noun. 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.
6. noun. An ordinary equaling in breadth one fourth of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
7. noun. The thread of a screw.
8. noun. A border of broad or narrow lines of color or gilt.
9. noun. The raised molding about the muzzle of a gun.
10. noun. Any scantling smaller than a batten.
11. noun. A fascia; a band of fibers; applied esp. to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
12. noun. The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.
13. transitive verb. To bind, furnish, or adorn with a fillet.
14. noun. fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members

    Synonyms: stopping

15. noun. a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband

    Synonyms: taenia, tenia

16. noun. a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus

    Synonyms: lemniscus

17. noun. a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish

    Synonyms: filet

18. noun. a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef

    Synonyms: filet

19. verb. cut into filets

    "filet the fish"

    Synonyms: filet

20. verb. decorate with a lace of geometric designs

    Synonyms: filet

Synonyms

stopping, taenia, tenia, lemniscus, filet

Common word forms

fillets, filleted, filleter, filleting

Words from these letters

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