Felt
[felt] or [fɛlt]
Definition
(noun.) a fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers.
(verb.) change texture so as to become matted and felt-like; 'The fabric felted up after several washes'.
(verb.) cover with felt; 'felt a cap'.
(verb.) mat together and make felt-like; 'felt the wool'.
Inputed by Andre--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Feel
(-) imp. & p. p. / a. from Feel.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A hat made of felt.
(n.) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
(v. t.) To make into felt, or a feltike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
(v. t.) To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder of a steam emgine.
Typist: Marion
Definition
n. a fabric formed without weaving by means of the natural tendency of the fibres of wool and certain kinds of hair to interlace with and cling to each other.—v.t. to make into felt: to cover with felt.—v.t. Felt′er to mat together like felt.—n. Felt′ing the art or process of making felt: the felt itself.
pa.t. and pa.p. of Feel.
Typist: Ruth
Examples
- I felt it against the back of the chair. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Which of them had a step so quiet, a hand so gentle, but I should have heard or felt her, if she had approached or touched me in a day-sleep? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Night also closed around; and when I could hardly see the dark mountains, I felt still more gloomily. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- But still the disappointed father held a strong lever; and Fred felt as if he were being banished with a malediction. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He entered the front room not without blushing; for he, like many, had felt the power of this girl's face and form. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The felts were then removed, and the sheets were piled upon one another and again pressed, after which they were dried, sized, and finished. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Says he feels as if it was groves! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- You are a conscientious man, Mr. Garth--a man, I trust, who feels himself accountable to God. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- If the hand is cold, lukewarm water feels hot, but if the hand has been in very hot water and is then transferred to lukewarm water, the latter will seem cold. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I love the way it feels under my shoes. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I never had the feeling in the house before,' said Mrs Boffin; 'and I have been about it alone at all hours of the night. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- A vague feeling of impending misfortune impressed me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- My impression is that the shock inflicted on me completely suspended my thinking and feeling power. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Lily was feeling unusually virtuous. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I had no feeling for him. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I felt it against the back of the chair. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Which of them had a step so quiet, a hand so gentle, but I should have heard or felt her, if she had approached or touched me in a day-sleep? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Night also closed around; and when I could hardly see the dark mountains, I felt still more gloomily. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- But still the disappointed father held a strong lever; and Fred felt as if he were being banished with a malediction. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He entered the front room not without blushing; for he, like many, had felt the power of this girl's face and form. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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