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Fillet vs Flute - What's the difference?

fillet | flute |

As verbs the difference between fillet and flute

is that fillet is to slice, bone or make into fillets while flute is .

As a noun 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 an adjective flute is

reedy (of a voice).

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

    flute

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) flaute, from (etyl) flaut, ultimately from three possibilities: * Blend of Provencal * From Latin * Imitative.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (musical instruments) A woodwind instrument consisting of a metal, wood or bamboo tube with a row of circular holes and played by blowing across a hole in the side of one end or through a narrow channel at one end against a sharp edge, while covering none, some or all of the holes with the fingers to vary the note played.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • The breathing flute's soft notes are heard around.
  • A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
  • a lengthwise groove, such as one of the lengthwise grooves on a can escape
  • (architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
  • A long French bread roll.
  • (Simmonds)
  • An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
  • Derived terms
    * pan flute * skin flute
    See also
    * bansuri

    Verb

  • To play on a .
  • To make a flutelike sound.
  • To utter with a flutelike sound.
  • *
  • To form flutes or channels in (as in a column, a ruffle, etc.); to cut a semicylindrical vertical groove in (as in a pillar, etc.).
  • Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) ?, (etyl) fluit.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A kind of flyboat; a storeship.