different between fillet vs sash

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)

1. (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.

2. A fine strip of any material, in various technical uses.
3. (construction) A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet.
4. (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.
5. A strip or compact piece of meat or fish from which any bones and skin and feathers have been removed.
6. (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

7. (architecture) A fine flat moulding/molding used as separation between coarser mouldings.
8. (architecture) The space between two flutings in a shaft.
9. (heraldry) An ordinary equal in breadth to one quarter of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
10. The thread of a screw.
11. A colored or gilded border.
12. The raised moulding around the muzzle of a gun.
13. (woodworking) Any scantling smaller than a batten.
14. (anatomy) A fascia; a band of fibres; applied especially to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
15. 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)

1. (transitive) To slice, bone or make into fillets.
2. (transitive) To apply, create, or specify a rounded or filled corner to.

Synonyms

• (make into fillets): bone, debone

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

From Arabic ????? (š?š, “muslin cloth”).

Noun

sash (plural sashes)

1. A piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist.

   Synonyms: belt, cummerbund, obi, waistband

2. A decorative length of cloth worn over the shoulder to the opposite hip, often for ceremonial or other formal occasions.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

sash (third-person singular simple present sashes, present participle sashing, simple past and past participle sashed)

1. (transitive) To adorn with a sash.
   • 1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace, Letter IV to the Earl Fitzwilliam, in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, London: C. and J. Rivington, 1826, Volume 9, p. 46,^[2]

     […] the Costume of the Sans-culotte Constitution of 1793 was absolutely insufferable […] but now they are so powdered and perfumed, and ribanded, and sashed and plumed, that […] there is something in it more grand and noble, something more suitable to an awful Roman Senate, receiving the homage of dependant Tetrarchs.

Etymology 2

[circa 1680] From sashes, from French châssis (“frame (of a window or door)”), taken as a plural and -s trimmed off by the late 17th century. See also chassis.

Noun

sash (plural sashes)

1. The opening part (casement) of a window usually containing the glass panes, hinged to the jamb, or sliding up and down as in a sash window.
   • 1722, Daniel Defoe, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders, London: W. Chetwood and T. Edling, p. 91,^[3]

     One Morning he pulls off his Diamond Ring, and writes upon the Glass of the Sash in my Chamber this Line, You I Love, and you alone.

   • 1823, Clement Clarke Moore, “Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas” (“The Night before Christmas”),^[4]

     Away to the window I flew like a flash,

     Tore open the shutters, and threw up the sash.

   • 1908, Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale, Book 4, Chapter 2,^[5]

     She chiefly recalled the Square under snow; cold mornings, and the coldness of the oil-cloth at the window, and the draught of cold air through the ill-fitting sash (it was put right now)!

2. (software, graphical user interface) A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.

   Synonym: splitter

3. In a sawmill, the rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; the gate.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

sash (third-person singular simple present sashes, present participle sashing, simple past and past participle sashed)

1. (transitive) To furnish with a sash.
   • 1741, Samuel Richardson, Pamela, London, Volume 3, Letter 1, p. 2,^[6]

     The old Bow-windows he will have preserv'd, but will not have them sash’d,

Derived terms

• unsashed

References

Anagrams

• shas, šâhs, š?hs