The difference between Bone and Fillet

When used as nouns, bone means a composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates, whereas fillet means a headband.

When used as verbs, bone means to prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from, whereas fillet means to slice, bone or make into fillets.


Bone is also adjective with the meaning: of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

check bellow for the other definitions of Bone and Fillet

  1. Bone as a noun (uncountable):

    A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

  2. Bone as a noun (countable):

    Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.

  3. Bone as a noun:

    A bone of a fish; a fishbone.

  4. Bone as a noun:

    A bonefish

  5. Bone as a noun:

    One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.

  6. Bone as a noun:

    One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.

  7. Bone as a noun:

    Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.

  8. Bone as a noun (figurative):

    The framework of anything.

  9. Bone as a noun:

    An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

    Examples:

    "color paneE4D4BA"

  10. Bone as a noun (US, informal):

    A dollar.

  11. Bone as a noun (American football, informal):

    The wishbone formation.

  12. Bone as a noun (slang):

    An erect penis; a boner.

  13. Bone as a noun (slang, mostly, plural):

    A domino or dice.

  1. Bone as an adjective:

    Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

  1. Bone as a verb:

    To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

  2. Bone as a verb:

    To fertilize with bone.

  3. Bone as a verb:

    To put whalebone into.

    Examples:

    "to bone stays"

    "rfquotek Ash"

  4. Bone as a verb (civil engineering):

    To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.

    Examples:

    "[[boning rod]]"

  5. Bone as a verb (vulgar, slang, usually of a man):

    To have sexual intercourse with.

  6. Bone as a verb (Australia, dated, in [[Aboriginal]] culture):

    To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.

  7. Bone as a verb (usually with "up"):

    To study.

    Examples:

    "[[bone up]]"

  8. Bone as a verb:

    To polish boots to a shiny finish.

  1. Bone as a verb (transitive, slang):

    To apprehend, steal.

  1. Bone as a verb (carpentry, masonry, surveying):

    To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Knight"

  1. Bone as a noun (slang):

  1. Fillet as a noun (now, _, rare):

    A headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration.

  2. Fillet as a noun:

    A thin strip of any material, in various technical uses.

  3. Fillet as a noun (construction):

    A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet.

  4. Fillet as a noun (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.

  5. Fillet as a noun:

    A strip or compact piece of meat or fish from which any bones and skin and feathers have been removed.

  6. Fillet as a noun (architecture):

    A thin flat moulding/molding used as separation between larger mouldings.

  7. Fillet as a noun (architecture):

    The space between two flutings in a shaft.

  8. Fillet as a noun (heraldiccharge):

    An ordinary equal in breadth to one quarter of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.

  9. Fillet as a noun:

    The thread of a screw.

  10. Fillet as a noun:

    A border of broad or narrow lines of colour or gilt.

  11. Fillet as a noun:

    The raised moulding around the muzzle of a gun.

  12. Fillet as a noun (woodworking):

    Any scantling smaller than a batten.

  13. Fillet as a noun (anatomy):

    A fascia; a band of fibres; applied especially to certain bands of white matter in the brain.

  14. Fillet as a noun:

    The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.

  1. Fillet as a verb (transitive):

    To slice, bone or make into fillets.

  2. Fillet as a verb (transitive):

    To apply, create, or specify a rounded or filled corner to.