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Feat vs Felt - What's the difference?

feat | felt |

As verbs the difference between feat and felt

is that feat is (obsolete) to form; to fashion while felt is to fear something.

As a noun feat

is a relatively rare or difficult accomplishment.

As an adjective feat

is (archaic) dexterous in movements or service; skilful; neat; pretty.

feat

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2013 , date=January 22 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (3-4) , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Bradford may have lost on the night but they stubbornly protected a 3-1 first-leg advantage to emulate a feat last achieved by Rochdale in 1962.}}

    Derived terms

    * no small feat * no mean feat

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (archaic) dexterous in movements or service; skilful; neat; pretty
  • * Shakespeare
    • Never master had a page so feat .
  • * 1610 , , act 2 scene 1
    • And look how well my garments sit upon me — / Much feater than before.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To form; to fashion.
  • * Shakespeare
    • To the more mature, / A glass that feated them.

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    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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