Felt
adj, name, noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 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
- 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."
Example
More examples"Though his stay in Europe was transient, Spenser felt he had learned much more about interactions with other people from traveling than he did at college."
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 Old English fēled, corresponding to feel + -ed.
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