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Fillet vs Collar - What's the difference?

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Fillet is a related term of collar.


In lang=en terms the difference between fillet and collar

is that fillet is to apply, create, or specify a rounded or filled corner to while collar is to roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.

As nouns the difference between fillet and collar

is that fillet is a headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration while collar is anything that encircles the neck.

As verbs the difference between fillet and collar

is that fillet is to slice, bone or make into fillets while collar is to grab or seize by the collar or neck.

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

    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

    collar

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything that encircles the neck.
  • #The part of an upper garment (shirt, jacket, etc.) that fits around the neck and throat, especially if sewn from a separate piece of fabric.
  • #*
  • #*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar .
  • #*, chapter=5
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars , and red neckbands.}}
  • #A decorative band or other fabric around the neckline.
  • #A chain worn around the neck.
  • #A similar detachable item.
  • #A coloured ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.
  • #A band or chain around an animal's neck, used to restrain and/or identify it.
  • #:
  • #A part of harness designed to distribute the load around the shoulders of a draft animal.
  • A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
  • :
  • (lb) Any encircling device or structure.
  • :
  • #(lb) A physical lockout device to prevent operation of a mechanical signal lever.
  • #(lb) A ring or cincture.
  • #(lb) A collar beam.
  • #(lb) A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.
  • #:(Raymond)
  • (lb) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
  • (lb) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.
  • :(Gray)
  • A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
  • (lb) An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.
  • Derived terms

    * blue-collar * bottle collar * brass-collar * change collars * choke collar * collar stud * collarbone * collared lizard * dog collar * equity collar * Eton collar * feel someone's collar * flea collar * floatation collar * head collar * hot under the collar * interest rate collar * mandarin collar * Peter Pan collar * pink-collar * rain collar * Roman collar * sailor collar * shawl collar * storm collar * Vandyke collar * white-collar * white-collar crime * wing collar

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
  • To place a collar on, to fit with one.
  • Collar and leash aggressive dogs.
  • To seize, capture or detain.
  • To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
  • (law enforcement) To arrest.
  • (figuratively) To bind in conversation.
  • I managed to collar Fred in the office for an hour.
  • To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.
  • (BDSM) To bind a submissive to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.
  • Derived terms

    * collaring