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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
fillet From the web:
- what fillet mean
- what fillet to use for beef wellington
- filet mignon
- what's fillet steak in spanish
- what filleting knife
- what fillet of sole
- what filleting fish
quadra
English
Etymology
From Latin quadra.
Noun
quadra (plural quadrae)
- (architecture) The plinth, or lowest member, of any pedestal, podium, water table, or the like.
- A fillet, or listel.
- A frame enclosing a bas relief.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kwa.d?a/, /ka.d?a/
Noun
quadra m or f (plural quadras)
- Clipping of quadragénaire.
Italian
Etymology 1
From Latin quadra.
Noun
quadra f (plural quadre)
- (nautical) square sail, square rigged
- square bracket
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Adjective
quadra
- feminine singular of quadro
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
quadra
- inflection of quadrare:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Related terms
Latin
Etymology
From quattuor (“four”).
This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?k?a.dra/, [?k?äd??ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?kwa.dra/, [?kw??d???]
Noun
quadra f (genitive quadrae); first declension
- square
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- quadra in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- quadra in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quadra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- quadra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- quadra in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quadrate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin quadra. Compare quadro.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /?kwa.ð??/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?kwa.d??/
Noun
quadra f (plural quadras)
- block of buildings
- sport venue; court
- (poetry) a quatrain
- season, period, time
- (lottery): a set of four numbers
- (card games) four
- quadrangle
- large square compound where samba schools practice
See also
quadra From the web:
- what quadrant is the appendix in
- what quadrant is the liver in
- what quadrant is the spleen in
- what quadrant is the gallbladder in
- what quadrant is sin positive
- what quadrant is tan negative
- what quadrant is tan positive
- what quadrant is cos negative
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