different between fillet vs tillet

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

Noun

tillet (plural tillets)

1. A bag made of thin glazed muslin, formerly used as a wrapper for dress goods.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of McElrath to this entry?)

Anagrams

• Little, little

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

tillet

1. Alternative form of tillèt
2. Alternative form of tillét