Word Finder - fillet

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A headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration.

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A fine strip of any material, in various technical uses.

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A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet.

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(drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an inside edge, added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.

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A strip or compact piece of meat or fish from which any bones and skin and feathers have been removed.

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A fine flat moulding/molding used as separation between coarser mouldings.

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The space between two flutings in a shaft.

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An ordinary equal in breadth to one quarter of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.

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The thread of a screw.

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A colored or gilded border.

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The raised moulding around the muzzle of a gun.

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Any scantling smaller than a batten.

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A fascia; a band of fibres; applied especially to certain bands of white matter in the brain.

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The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.

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To slice, bone or make into fillets.

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To apply, create, or specify a rounded or filled corner to.

If the blank is too heavy the fillet may of course be passed through the rolls again.

Each wore a wreath of corn, a white fillet and the praetexta.

Sprinkle a bit of lime juice over each fillet.

The diadem, which was of eastern origin, was a fillet or band of linen or silk, richly embroidered, and was worn tied round the forehead.

The military badge is a white cross with black and gold edging, resting on a green oak and laurel wreath; the central medallion bears the Prussian Eagle with the arms of Hohenzollern, and is surrounded by a blue fillet with the motto Vom Fels zum Meer; the civil badge is a black eagle, with the head encircled with a blue fillet with the motto.

The fillet mignon-flavored toothpaste, available in a 2.5 ounce tube approved for air travel, is designed to entice your pet and make brushing the teeth a pleasurable and anticipated experience.

Fire up the grill, and add a salmon fillet instead of a typical steak.

That translates into one six-ounce steak, chicken breast or fish fillet equals your daily allotment.

Dinner selections include pepper-rubbed fillet mignon, grilled swordfish, paella and grilled lamb chops.

The menu includes salmon fillet, shell steak, double-cut pork chop, hamburger and french fries, and duck breast.

It is composed of a circlet of gold, adorned with precious stones and pearls, heightened with fleurs-de-lys, and is raised above the circlet in the form of a cap which is opened in the middle, so that the lower part is crescentshaped; across this opening from front to back rises an arched fillet, enriched with pearls and surmounted by an orb, on which is a cross of pearls.

The fillet is drawn between two little steel cylinders which do not revolve and are held rigidly in position.

When they have been reduced to the correct thickness they are examined by the " tryer," who cuts out one or two blanks from each fillet with a hand machine and weighs them on a delicate balance.

When the fillet FF is brought above the holes, the cutters descend and force disks of metal through the holes.

The star of the knights grand cross is a seven-rayed star of silver with a small ray of gold between each, in the centre is a red St George's cross bearing a medallion of St Michael encountering Satan, surrounded by a blue fillet with the motto Auspicium melioris aevi.

The badge is a white cross with gold edge, in the centre a red medallion with a white gold-edged fesse, surrounded by a fillet with the inscription Fortitudini.

The badge is the black double-headed eagle surrounded by a blue-enamelled ornamented border, with the inscription Salus et Gloria on a white fillet; the eagle bears a red Greek cross with gold and blue borders.

In the centre a medallion, surrounded by a red fillet with the motto of the order, L'union fait la force, bears a golden Belgian lion on a black field.

The star of silver bears the black eagle on an orange ground surrounded by a silver fillet on which is the motto of the order Suum Cuique.

The badge is a white cross surmounted by the royal crown, in the centre the initial F surrounded by a crimson fillet on which is the motto Furchtlos and Treu; in the angles of the cross are four golden leopards; the ribbon is crimson with two black stripes.

Roe also serves items such as fillet mignon, teriyaki chicken and shrimp scampi.

In the case of very large silver coins only one blank is cut in the width of the fillet, but bronze fillets are made wider so that three penny blanks are cut out at each stroke of the machine.

The badge is a red enamelled cross bordered with white and gold and surmounted by the imperial crown; the red medallion in the centre bears the letters F.I.A., and on the encircling white fillet is the inscription Integritati et Merito.

There are five classes; the badge is a silver sun of seven clustered rays, with crescent and star between each cluster; on a gold centre is the sultan's name in black Turkish lettering, surrounded by a red fillet inscribed with the words Zeal, Devotion, Loyalty; it is suspended from a red crescent and star; the ribbon is red with green borders.

In their simplest form, they are merely a row of slender stakes of larch or other wood driven into the ground, and connected by a slight rod or fillet at top. The use of iron rails has now been almost wholly discontinued on account of metallic substances acting as powerful conductors of both heat and cold in equal extremes.