Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A fabric of matted, compressed animal fibers, such as wool or fur, sometimes mixed with vegetable or synthetic fibers.
- n. A material resembling this fabric.
- n. Something made of this fabric.
- adj. Made of, relating to, or resembling felt.
- v. To make into felt.
- v. To cover with felt.
- v. To press or mat (something) together.
- v. To become like felt; mat together.
- v. Past tense and past participle of feel.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An unwoven fabric of short hair or wool, or of wool and fur, agglutinated or matted together, with the aid usually of moisture and heat, by rolling, beating, and pressure. The property of felting results chiefly from the serrated or jagged structure of wool and most hairs, as well as from the crimped or wavy form natural to some animal fibers. The making of felt is thought to have originated at a very early date in the western part of Asia, and the best and most durable felt is still made in Persia and the neighboring countries. Felt floor-mats an inch or more thick and of admirable texture and printed in rich designs in color are used upon marble and tiled floors in Persia. (See
numud .) In Europe, throughout the middle ages and later, felt was a usual material for hats, and was also used for stuffing or bombasting garments for both defense and fashion. Felt is now in general use not only for hats, but for clothing and upholstery, carpets, table-covers, and mats, jackets for steam-boilers, etc., and lining for roofs and walls. Broadcloth and other fulled woolen fabrics are partially felted by the process of fulling; and the familiar shrinkage of woolen garments in washing results from an unsought felting, which draws the fibers of the fabric closer together. - n. A piece of this material; some article of wearing-apparel made of it; specifically, a hat made of felted wool.
- n. A thick matted growth of weeds, spreading by their roots.
- n. Fell; skin.
- n. A fabric made of hair, or asbestos and hair, sometimes saturated with a lime cement, used on steam-pipes and -boilers as a non-conducting covering.
- n. A compound of liquid cement and animal or vegetable fiber, applied with a brush for the same purpose.
- To mat (fibers) together, as in the manufacture of felt; make into felt or something resembling felt.
- To cover with felt, as the cylinder of a steamengine.
- To become felted; mat together.
- Preterit and past participle of feel.
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of feel.
- adj. That has been experienced or perceived.
- n. 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.
- n. A hat made of felt.
- n. obsolete A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
- v. transitive To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
- v. transitive To cover with, or as if with, felt.
GNU Webster's 1913
- imp. & p. p. or 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. obsolete A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
- v. To make into felt, or a feltike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
- v. To cover with, or as with, felt.
WordNet 3.0
- v. mat together and make felt-like
- v. change texture so as to become matted and felt-like
- v. cover with felt
- n. a fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers
Etymologies
- Old English felt, from Proto-Germanic *feltaz (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish filt), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus ("felt") (adj.), Old Church Slavonic plŭstĭ, Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pilos)), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English; see pel-5 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“You must have felt that even the formula of the Church of Rome would be a blessed power to exercise, could it but once be accepted as a pledge that all the past was obliterated, and that from that moment a free untainted future lay before the soul -- you must have _felt_ that; you must have wished you had dared to”
“Yet again and again she felt constrained to make her simple supplication, pleading earnestly for her baby's life with the God the reality of whose being and power she now _felt_, spite of herself.”
“He did not look up, but he felt, he just _felt_, all the eyes of all the little meadow people and forest folk burning right into him.”
“He had felt the menace, known that it existed, and the slogan ringing always in his ears, the Whispered "Death to the Gray Seal" had taken on a deeper significance, had brought him a more acute and imminent sense of peril than ever before; but it was only last night, for the first time, that he had equally _felt_ that he had had any concrete knowledge of, or contact with this new antagonist.”
“She felt his black heart constantly throwing its shadow on to her own; she _felt_ this, but could not give to others, nor perhaps even to herself, what might be deemed a satisfactory reason for her impressions and forebodings; for in her was exemplified the words of the poet:”
“Tyler finally admitted to me that he has been lying to me and alas, doesn’t love me at all, but only said it because he felt it would make things better and because it’s how he “wishes” he felt ”
“And yet -- it may seem strange to you -- but I've felt all along -- I've _felt_ -- that something like this might probably happen any time. ”
“When they laughed I laughed, and we bowed and shook hands, and they turned me round and felt me all over, and _felt my hands_. ”
“It was basically an attempt at getting a song that the label felt good about that would be able to be played on the radio.”
“Eventually though, the label felt inauthentic and unfair to both traditions.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘felt’.
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
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Furriery
Anything to do with the fur trade.
furriery, badger, trap, trapper, beaver, polecat, fitch, fitchew, mink, chinchilla, rabbit, fur and 47 more...
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Past tense in -t.
Some words are always like this. Some only when British or archaic. Some are just fun.
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Purr words
Please add one snarl word for every purr word, in the interests of harmony.
Note: this list is for purr words. Snarl words belong on the other list, not this one. Only purr words need ...bumblebee, kitten, hummingbird, turtledove, felt, daffodil, hourglass, surf, satyr, gloved, honeyed, raspberry and 9 more...
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hats and headgear
Everything hats,things with hoods,hoods,scarves,crowns,useful
adjectival forms,hat expressions,
alternate spellingsbabushka, balaclava, bamoral, baseball cap, beanie, bearskin, beaver hat, beret, billycock, biretta, boater, bobble hat and 422 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
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colleen's words
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Weaverly Words
Words that relate to, or come from, the weaving trade.
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savage215's Words
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kevinl's Words
indefatigable, dabble, befuddle, fin, infinity, might, futile, squirm, bookish, feint, liquidity, belt and 126 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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courtneyah's Words
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