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Fillet vs Billet - What's the difference?

fillet | billet |

In architecture terms the difference between fillet and billet

is that fillet is the space between two flutings in a shaft while billet is an ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.

In transitive terms the difference between fillet and billet

is that fillet is to apply, create, or specify a rounded or filled corner to while billet is to direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge.

fillet

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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:
    • In secret shadow, farre from all mens sight: / From her faire head her fillet she vndight, / And laid her stole aside.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • A fillet binds her hair.
  • * 1970 , John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse , Mew York 2007, p. 42:
    • 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.
  • 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.
  • * '>citation
  • 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.

    • Antonyms

    * (rounded outside edge) round

    Synonyms

    * (a boneless cut of meat) filet

    Derived terms

    * chicken fillet

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    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To slice, bone or make into fillets.
  • To apply, create, or specify a rounded or filled corner to.

    • Synonyms

    * (make into fillets) bone, debone

    billet

    English

    (wikipedia billet)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) bylet, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A short informal letter.
  • *
    • However, when his cool reflections returned, he plainly perceived that his case was neither mended nor altered by Sophia's billet
  • A written order to quarter soldiers.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.
  • * , chapter=19
    • , title= 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 .}}
  • * 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 9 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
    • 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.
  • An allocated space or berth in a boat or ship.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10 , passage=The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.}}

    Verb

  • To lodge soldiers, usually by order.
  • * (Washington Irving) (1783-1859)
    • Billeted in so antiquated a mansion.
  • To lodge, or be quartered, in a private house.
  • (label) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge.

    • Etymology 3

    (etyl) billette, from ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • metallurgy a semi-finished length of metal
  • a short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood
  • * Shakespeare
    • They shall beat out my brains with billets .
  • (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.
    • (Knight)