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FELT
felt
(noun) a fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers
felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat
(verb) change texture so as to become matted and felt-like; “The fabric felted up after several washes”
felt
(verb) cover with felt; “felt a cap”
felt
(verb) mat together and make felt-like; “felt the wool”
FEEL
feel
(verb) be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state; “My cold is gone--I feel fine today”; “She felt tired after the long hike”; “She felt sad after her loss”
feel
(verb) have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone’s behavior or attitude; “She felt small and insignificant”; “You make me feel naked”; “I made the students feel different about themselves”
feel, finger
(verb) examine by touch; “Feel this soft cloth!”; “The customer fingered the sweater”
palpate, feel
(verb) examine (a body part) by palpation; “The nurse palpated the patient’s stomach”; “The runner felt her pulse”
feel, experience
(verb) undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind; “She felt resentful”; “He felt regret”
feel, sense
(verb) perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles; “He felt the wind”; “She felt an object brushing her arm”; “He felt his flesh crawl”; “She felt the heat when she got out of the car”
feel
(verb) undergo passive experience of; “We felt the effects of inflation”; “her fingers felt their way through the string quartet”; “she felt his contempt of her”
feel
(verb) produce a certain impression; “It feels nice to be home again”
feel
(verb) find by testing or cautious exploration; “He felt his way around the dark room”
feel
(verb) be felt or perceived in a certain way; “The ground feels shaky”; “The sheets feel soft”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
FELT (plural FELTs)
(astronomy) Acronym of fast-evolving luminous transient. (a type of supernova)
Anagrams
• TEFL, flet, left
Etymology 1
Noun
felt (countable and uncountable, plural felts)
A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
A hat made of felt.
(obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
Verb
felt (third-person singular simple present felts, present participle felting, simple past and past participle felted)
(transitive) To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
(transitive) To cover with, or as if with, felt.
(transitive, poker) To cause a player to lose all their chips.
Etymology 2
Verb
felt
simple past tense and past participle of feel
Adjective
felt (comparative more felt, superlative most felt)
That has been experienced or perceived.
Anagrams
• TEFL, flet, left
Proper noun
Felt (plural Felts)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Felt is the 8610th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3820 individuals. Felt is most common among White (94.14%) individuals.
Anagrams
• TEFL, flet, left
Source: Wiktionary
Felt,
Definition: imp. & p. p. or a. from Feel.
Felt, n. Etym: [AS. felt; akin to D. vilt, G. filz, and possibly to Gr. pilus hair, pileus a felt cap or hat.]
1. A cloth or stuff made of matted fibers of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving. It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt. Shak .
2. A hat made of felt. Thynne.
3. A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt. [Obs.] To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose. Mortimer.
Felt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Felted; p. pr. & vb. n. Felting.]
1. To make into felt, or a feltike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together. Sir M. Hale.
2. To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder of a steam emgine.
FEEL
Feel, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Felt; p. pr. & vb. n. Feeling.] Etym: [AS. f; akin to OS. gif to perceive, D. voelen to feel, OHG. fuolen, G. fĂĽhlen, Icel. falma to grope, and prob. to AS. folm paim of the hand, L. palma. Cf. Fumble, Palm.]
1. To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; to have sensation excited by contact of (a thing) with the body or limbs. Who feel Those rods of scorpions and those whips of steel. Creecn.
2. To touch; to handle; to examine by touching; as, feel this piece of silk; hence, to make trial of; to test; often with out. Come near, . . . that I may feel thee, my son. Gen. xxvii. 21. He hath this to feel my affection to your honor. Shak.
3. To perceive by the mind; to have a sense of; to experience; to be affected by; to be sensible of, or sensetive to; as, to feel pleasure; to feel pain. Teach me to feel another's woe. Pope. Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing. Eccl. viii. 5. He best can paint them who shall feel them most. Pope. Mankind have felt their strength and made it felt. Byron.
4. To take internal cognizance of; to be conscious of; to have an inward persuasion of. For then, and not till then, he felt himself. Shak.
5. To perceive; to observe. [Obs.] Chaucer. To feel the helm (Naut.), to obey it.
Feel, v. i.
1. To have perception by the touch, or by contact of anything with the nerves of sensation, especially those upon the surface of the body.
2. To have the sensibilities moved or affected. [She] feels with the dignity of a Roman matron. Burke. And mine as man, who feel for all mankind. Pope.
3. To be conscious of an inward impression, state of mind, persuasion, physical condition, etc.; to perceive one's self to be; - - followed by an adjective describing the state, etc.; as, to feel assured, grieved, persuaded. I then did feel full sick. Shak.
4. To know with feeling; to be conscious; hence, to know certainly or without misgiving. Garlands . . . which I feel I am not worthy yet to wear. Shak.
5. To appear to the touch; to give a perception; to produce an impression by the nerves of sensation; -- followed by an adjective describing the kind of sensation. Blind men say black feels rough, and white feels smooth. Dryden. To feel after, to search for; to seek to find; to seek as a person groping in the dark. "If haply they might feel after him, and find him." Acts xvii. 27. - To feel of, to examine by touching.
Feel, n.
1. Feeling; perception. [R.] To intercept and have a more kindly feel of its genial warmth. Hazlitt.
2. A sensation communicated by touching; impression made upon one who touches or handles; as, this leather has a greasy feel. The difference between these two tumors will be distinguished by the feel. S. Sharp.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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