felt
Meaning
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- 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.
- A hat made of felt.
- A felt-tip pen.
- (obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/fɛlt/
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.
New
feel
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- To use or experience the sense of touch.
- To use or experience the sense of touch.
- To use or experience the sense of touch.
- To use or experience the sense of touch.
- To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
- To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
- To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
- To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
- To be or become aware of.
- To experience the consequences of.
- To seem (through touch or otherwise).
- (slang) To understand.
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