Found 2 items, similar to Felt.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: felt
feel
v 1: undergo an emotional sensation;
“She felt resentful”;
“He
felt regret” [syn:
experience]
2: come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or
indefinite grounds;
“I feel that he doesn't like me”;
“I
find him to be obnoxious”;
“I found the movie rather
entertaining” [syn:
find]
3: 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” [syn:
sense]
4: seem with respect to a given sensation given;
“My cold is
gone--I feel fine today”;
“She felt tired after the long
hike”
5: 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”
6: 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”
7: be felt or perceived in a certain way;
“The ground feels
shaky”;
“The sheets feel soft”
8: grope or feel in search of something;
“He felt for his
wallet”
9: examine by touch;
“Feel this soft cloth!”;
“The customer
fingered the sweater” [syn:
finger]
10: examine (a body part) by palpation;
“The nurse palpated the
patient's stomach”;
“The runner felt her pulse” [syn:
palpate]
11: find by testing or cautious exploration;
“He felt his way
around the dark room”
12: produce a certain impression;
“It feels nice to be home
again”
13: pass one's hands over the sexual organs of;
“He felt the
girl in the movie theater”
[also:
felt]
feel
n 1: an intuitive awareness;
“he has a feel for animals” or
“it's
easy when you get the feel of it”;
2: the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the
effect that it has on people;
“the feel of the city
excited him”;
“a clergyman improved the tone of the
meeting”;
“it had the smell of treason” [syn:
spirit,
tone,
feeling,
flavor,
flavour,
look,
smell]
3: a property perceived by touch [syn:
tactile property]
4: manual-genital stimulation for sexual pleasure;
“the girls
hated it when he tried to sneak a feel”
[also:
felt]
felt
v 1: mat together and make felt-like;
“felt the wool”
2: cover with felt;
“felt a cap”
3: change texture so as to become matted and felt-like;
“The
fabric felted up after several washes” [syn:
felt up,
mat up
,
matt-up,
matte up,
matte,
mat]
felt
n : a fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers
felt
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feel
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Felt
Felt
\Felt\,
imp. & p. p. or a. from
Feel.
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Felt
\Felt\, n. [AS. felt; akin to D. vilt, G. filz, and
possibly to Gr. ? hair or wool wrought into felt, L. 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.
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It were a delicate stratagem to shoe
A troop of horse with felt. --Shak.
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2. A hat made of felt. --Thynne.
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3. A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt. [Obs.]
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To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the
felt be loose. --Mortimer.
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Felt grain, the grain of timber which is transverse to the
annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary
rays in oak and some other timber. --Knight.
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Felt
\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.
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2. To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder
of a steam engine.
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Feel
\Feel\ (f[=e]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Felt (f[e^]lt); p.
pr. & vb. n.
Feeling.] [AS. f[=e]lan; akin to OS.
gif[=o]lian to perceive, D. voelen to feel, OHG. fuolen, G.
f["u]hlen, Icel. f[=a]lma to grope, and prob. to AS. folm
palm 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.
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Who feel
Those rods of scorpions and those whips of steel.
--Creecn.
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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.
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Come near, . . . that I may feel thee, my son.
--Gen. xxvii.
21.
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He hath this to feel my affection to your honor.
--Shak.
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3. To perceive by the mind; to have a sense of; to
experience; to be affected by; to be sensible of, or
sensitive to; as, to feel pleasure; to feel pain.
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Teach me to feel another's woe. --Pope.
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Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil
thing. --Eccl. viii.
5.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
--Pope.
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Mankind have felt their strength and made it felt.
--Byron.
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4. To take internal cognizance of; to be conscious of; to
have an inward persuasion of.
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For then, and not till then, he felt himself.
--Shak.
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5. To perceive; to observe. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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To feel the helm (Naut.), to obey it.
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