Chaplet vs Fillet - What's the difference?
chaplet | fillet |
A garland or circlet for the head.
A string of beads, especially when making up five decades of the rosary.
* Longfellow
A moulding in the form of a string of beads; a bead-moulding.
A small chapel or shrine.
A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mould.
A tuft of feathers on a peacock's head.
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:
* Alexander Pope
* 1970 , John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse , Mew York 2007, p. 42:
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 nouns the difference between chaplet and fillet
is that chaplet is a garland or circlet for the head while fillet is a headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration.As a verb fillet is
to slice, bone or make into fillets.chaplet
English
Noun
(en noun)- her chaplet of beads and her missal
- (Johnson)
Derived terms
* chapletedfillet
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.
