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Felt
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- 1 That has been experienced or perceived. transitive
"Conversions to Islam can therefore be a deeply felt aesthetic experience that rarely occurs in Christian accounts of conversion, which are generally the source rather than the result of a Christian experience of beauty."
- 1 A surname.
"Anaïs Felt, a 31-year-old content creator based in the San Francisco Bay area, has “never felt better” after taking a microretirement this year. […] In the caption, Felt noted that the break is “totally worth it” if you have the money. She’s “childfree” and had saved up “a sizable chunk” of funds before quitting her 9-to-5."
- 1 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. countable, uncountable
"It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt."
- 2 Acronym of fast-evolving luminous transient, a type of supernova. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
- 3 a fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers wordnet
- 4 A hat made of felt. countable, uncountable
- 5 A felt-tip pen. countable, uncountable
"You'll notice that all the illustrations are done in different media: some with pencil crayons, some with felts, some with paint, some with chalk pastels."
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- 6 A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose."
- 1 To make into felt or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together. transitive
"the same Wool , for instance , one Men felts it into a Hat, another weaves it into Cloth , another weaves it into Kersey or Serge"
- 2 simple past and past participle of feel form-of, participle, past, transitive
- 3 change texture so as to become matted and felt-like wordnet
- 4 To cover with, or as if with, felt. transitive
"to felt the cylinder of a steam engine"
- 5 cover with felt wordnet
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- 6 To cause (a player) to lose all their chips. transitive
- 7 mat together and make felt-like wordnet
- 8 To thoroughly defeat or humiliate (someone). Internet, broadly, transitive
Etymology
From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish filt, French feutre), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”, adjective), Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos)), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.
From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish filt, French feutre), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”, adjective), Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos)), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.
From Old English fēled, corresponding to feel + -ed.
From Old English fēled, corresponding to feel + -ed.
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