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fillet
English
Etymology
From Middle English filet, vylette, felet, filette, flette, from Old French filet, diminutive of fil (“thread”), from Latin f?lum (“thread”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: f?'l?t, IPA(key): /?f?.l?t/, /?f??le??/
- (General American) (meat senses) IPA(key): /f??le?/
- Rhymes: -?l?t, -e?
Noun
fillet (plural fillets)
- (now rare) A headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.iii:
- In secret shadow, farre from all mens sight: / From her faire head her fillet she undight, / And laid her stole aside.
- 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, Mew York 2007, p. 42:
- She was talking of Raymond Duncan, a walking absurdity who dressed in an ancient handwoven Greek costume and wore his hair in long braids reaching to his waist, adding, on ceremonial occasions, a fillet of bay-leaves.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.iii:
- A fine strip of any material, in various technical uses.
- (construction) A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet.
- (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.
- A strip or compact piece of meat or fish from which any bones and skin and feathers have been removed.
- (Britain) 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
- (architecture) A fine flat moulding/molding used as separation between coarser mouldings.
- (architecture) The space between two flutings in a shaft.
- (heraldry) 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.
- The raised moulding around the muzzle of a gun.
- (woodworking) Any scantling smaller than a batten.
- (anatomy) 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.
Synonyms
- (a boneless cut of meat): filet
Antonyms
- (rounded outside edge): round
Derived terms
- chicken fillet
Translations
Further reading
- Fillet in the 1921 edition of Collier's Encyclopedia.
Verb
fillet (third-person singular simple present fillets, present participle filleting, simple past and past participle filleted)
- (transitive) To slice, bone or make into fillets.
- (transitive) To apply, create, or specify a rounded or filled corner to.
Synonyms
- (make into fillets): bone, debone
Translations
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belt
English
Etymology
From Middle English belt, from Old English belt (“belt, girdle”), from Proto-Germanic *baltijaz (“girdle, belt”), from Latin balteus (“belt, sword-belt”), of Etruscan origin. Cognate with Scots belt (“belt”), Dutch belt, German Balz (“belt”), Danish bælte (“belt”), Swedish bälte (“belt, cincture, girdle, zone”) and Icelandic belti (“belt”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?lt/
- Rhymes: -?lt
Noun
belt (plural belts)
- A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.
- A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
- A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.
- Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.
- A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.
- (astronomy) A collection of rocky-constituted bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.
- (astronomy) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
- A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.
- A quick drink of liquor.
- (usually capitalized) A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).
- (baseball) The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.
- (weaponry) A device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon
- (music) Vocal tone produced by singing with chest voice above the break (or passaggio), in a range typically sung in head voice.
Synonyms
- (band worn around waist): girdle, waistband, sash, strap
- (band used as safety restraint): restraint, safety belt, seat belt
- (powerful blow): blow, punch, sock, wallop
- (quick drink of liquor): dram, nip
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Afrikaans: belt
- ? Assamese: ????? (belto)
- ? Bengali: ????? (bel?)
- ? Dutch: belt
- ? Hindi: ????? (bel?)
- ? Irish: beilt
- ? Japanese: ??? (beruto)
- ? Oriya: ?????? (bel?)
- ? Urdu: ????? (bel?)
- ? Welsh: belt
Translations
Verb
belt (third-person singular simple present belts, present participle belting, simple past and past participle belted)
- (transitive) To encircle.
- (transitive) To fasten a belt on.
- (transitive) To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.
- (transitive) To hit with a belt.
- (transitive, normally belt out) To scream or sing in a loud manner.
- (transitive) To drink quickly, often in gulps.
- (transitive, slang) To hit someone or something.
- (transitive, baseball) To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.
- (intransitive) To move very fast.
Synonyms
- (to encircle): circle, girdle, surround
- (to fasten a belt): buckle, fasten, strap
- (to hit with a belt): strap, whip
- (to drink quickly): gulp, pound, slurp
- (to hit someone or something): bash, clobber, smack, wallop
- (to move quickly): book, speed, whiz, zoom
Derived terms
- belted l
- belt out
- belt up
- beltloop
Translations
Anagrams
- blet
Afrikaans
Etymology
Borrowed from English belt.
Noun
belt (plural belde)
- A belt (garment).
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?lt/
- Hyphenation: belt
- Rhymes: -?lt
Etymology 1
A variant of bult.
Noun
belt m or f (plural belten, diminutive beltje n)
- (archaic) A heap, hill
- A dumpsite, notably for waste products.
Derived terms
- asbelt
- afvalbelt
- beltmolen
- gifbelt
- vuilnisbelt
- zandbelt
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English belt.
Noun
belt m (plural belten, diminutive beltje n)
- (Suriname) (clothing) A belt.
Synonyms
- riem, broeksriem, gordel
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
belt
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of bellen
- (archaic) plural imperative of bellen
Maltese
Etymology
From Arabic ?????? (balad).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?lt/
Noun
belt f (plural bliet)
- A city, town.
Related terms
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *baltijaz. Cognate with Old High German balz, Old Norse belti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /belt/, [be?t]
Noun
belt m (nominative plural beltas)
- A belt.
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: belt
- English: belt (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: belt
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