Fillet vs Bend - What's the difference?
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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.
* 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.
To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
To become curved.
To cause to change direction.
* Milton
* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Scott
To change direction.
To be inclined; to direct itself.
* Milton
To stoop.
To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
* Coleridge
To force to submit.
* Shakespeare
To submit.
To apply to a task or purpose.
* Temple
* Alexander Pope
To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
(nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
(music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
(nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
A curve.
* 1968 , (Johnny Cash),
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, title= (nautical) Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
(heraldiccharge) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
(obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
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In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt.
(mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
(nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
(nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
In transitive terms the difference between fillet and bend
is that fillet is to apply, create, or specify a rounded or filled corner to while bend is to adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.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.
Antonyms
* (rounded outside edge) roundSynonyms
* (a boneless cut of meat) filetDerived terms
* chicken filletExternal links
*Verb
(en-verb)Synonyms
* (make into fillets) bone, debonebend
English
Verb
- If you bend the pipe too far, it will break.
- Don’t bend your knees.
- Look at the trees bending in the wind.
- Bend thine ear to supplication.
- Towards Coventry bend we our course.
- bending her eyes upon her parent
- The road bends to the right
- to whom our vows and wishes bend
- He bent down to pick up the pieces.
- Each to his great Father bends .
- They bent me to their will.
- except she bend her humour
- I am bending to my desire to eat junk food.
- He bent the company's resources to gaining market share.
- to bend his mind to any public business
- when to mischief mortals bend their will
- He bent to the goal of gaining market share.
- Bend the sail to the yard.
- You should bend the G slightly sharp in the next measure.
Derived terms
* bend down * bend over * bend over backwards * bend somebody's ear * on bended knee * bend one's elbow * bend out of shape * bend the truthNoun
(en noun)- I hear the train a comin'/It's rolling round the bend
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- (Totten)
- Farewell, poor swain; thou art not for my bend .
- the midship bends