Found 2 items, similar to Felting.
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: Felting
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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Felting
\Felt"ing\, n.
1. The material of which felt is made; also, felted cloth;
also, the process by which it is made.
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2. The act of splitting timber by the felt grain.
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