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Baize vs Felt - What's the difference?

baize | felt |

As nouns the difference between baize and felt

is that baize is a thick, soft, usually woolen cloth resembling felt; often colored green and used for coverings on card tables, billiard and snooker tables, etc while felt is 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.

As a verb felt is

to make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.

As an adjective felt is

that has been experienced or perceived.

baize

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A thick, soft, usually woolen cloth resembling felt; often colored green and used for coverings on card tables, billiard and snooker tables, etc.
  • (dated) A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors.
  • * 1719:
    • my goods being all English manufacture, such as cloths, stuffs, baize , and things particularly valuable and desirable in the country, I found means to sell them to a very great advantage...
  • * 1885:
    • At the further end, a flight of stairs mounted to a door covered with a red baize ; and through this, Mr. Utterson was at last received into the doctor's cabinet.

    felt

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) felt, from (etyl) ), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.

    Noun

    (wikipedia felt) (-)
  • 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.
  • * Shakespeare, King Lear , act 4, scene 6:
    • It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt .
  • A hat made of felt.
  • (obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
  • * 1707 , John Mortimer, The whole art of husbandry :
    • To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.
    Related terms
    * 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 * felt-tip pen * coated felt sheet * saturated felt

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
    • (Sir Matthew Hale)
  • To cover with, or as if with, felt.
    • to felt the cylinder of a steam engine

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (feel)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That has been experienced or perceived.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 257:
    • Conversions to Islam can therefore be a deeply felt aesthetic experience that rarely occurs in Christian accounts of conversion, which are generally the source rather than the result of a Christian experience of beauty.

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