fillet
fillets; filleted; filleting
A fillet is a specially cut piece of meat or fish. If you order a fillet of salmon at a restaurant, it won't have any bones in it.
You can eat a fish fillet or a fillet of beef — either one will be boneless. If you cut a fillet yourself, you fillet the meat. The oldest meaning of the noun fillet, one that's rare today, is "a ribbon worn around the head." It comes from the French filet, the diminutive form of fil, or "thread." The meat meaning came from the technique of tying it with a string before it was cut.
Definitions of fillet
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a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish
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synonyms:
filet, fish filet, fish fillet
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a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef
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synonyms:
filet
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types:
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Chateaubriand
a very thick center cut of beef tenderloin
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tournedos
thick steak cut from the beef tenderloin
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filet mignon
small steak cut from the thick end of a beef tenderloin
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type of:
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beefsteak
a beef steak usually cooked by broiling
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Chateaubriand
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cut into filets
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a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband
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fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members
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decorate with a lace of geometric designs
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a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus
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synonyms:
lemniscus
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type of:
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afferent, afferent nerve, sensory nerve
a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system
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afferent, afferent nerve, sensory nerve
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