Filet vs. Tenderloin

Filetnoun

alternative form of fillet

Filetverb

alternative form of fillet

Filetnoun

a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef

Filetnoun

a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish

Filetnoun

lace having a square mesh

Filetverb

decorate with a lace of geometric designs

Filetverb

cut into filets;

Filetnoun

French spelling of fillet, used especially in the names of French or French-sounding dishes

Filetnoun

a kind of net or lace with a square mesh.

Tenderloinnoun

The tenderest part of a loin of meat, especially of pork or beef.

Tenderloinnoun

A district of a city where corruption is common, often because the district is devoted to questionable businesses (peep shows, etc) which are easy for police to blackmail and extort.

Tenderloinnoun

A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles.

Tenderloinnoun

In New York City, the region which is the center of the night life of fashionable amusement, including the majority of the theaters, etc., centering on Broadway. The term orig. designates the old twenty-ninth police precinct, in this region, which afforded the police great opportunities for profit through conniving at vice and lawbreaking, one captain being reported to have said on being transferred there that whereas he had been eating chuck steak he would now eat tenderlion. Hence, in some other cities, a district largely devoted to night amusement, or, sometimes, to vice.

Tenderloinnoun

a city district known for its vice and high crime rate

Tenderloinnoun

the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column