Billeted vs Filleted - What's the difference?
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(US) (billet)
A short informal letter.
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A written order to quarter soldiers.
A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.
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An allocated space or berth in a boat or ship.
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To lodge soldiers, usually by order.
* (Washington Irving) (1783-1859)
To lodge, or be quartered, in a private house.
(label) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge.
metallurgy a semi-finished length of metal
a short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood
* Shakespeare
(heraldiccharge) A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon
(architecture) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.
(saddlery) A strap which enters a buckle.
A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap.
(fillet)
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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* Alexander Pope
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A thin 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.
(architecture) A thin flat moulding/molding used as separation between larger mouldings.
(architecture) The space between two flutings in a shaft.
(heraldry) An ordinary equally in breadth one quarter of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
The thread of a screw.
A border of broad or narrow lines of colour or gilt.
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The raised moulding around the muzzle of a gun.
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.
To slice, bone or make into fillets.
To apply, create, or specify a rounded or filled corner to.
As verbs the difference between billeted and filleted
is that billeted is past tense of billet while filleted is past tense of fillet.billeted
English
Alternative forms
* (UK) billettedVerb
(head)billet
English
(wikipedia billet)Etymology 1
From (etyl) bylet, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- However, when his cool reflections returned, he plainly perceived that his case was neither mended nor altered by Sophia's billet
Etymology 2
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets .}}
- 17 June 1940': Prime Minister Pétain requests armistice. Germans use the Foucaults’ holiday home as officers’ ' billet . Foucault steals firewood for school from collaborationist militia. Foucault does well at school, but messes up his summer exams in 1940.
Verb
- Billeted in so antiquated a mansion.
Etymology 3
(etyl) billette, from ).Noun
(en noun)- They shall beat out my brains with billets .
- (Knight)
filleted
English
Verb
(head)fillet
English
Noun
(en noun)- In secret shadow, farre from all mens sight: / From her faire head her fillet she vndight, / And laid her stole aside.
- A fillet binds her hair.
- 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.
