Feel vs Fell - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between feel and fell

is that feel is to experience the consequences of while fell is to make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.

As verbs the difference between feel and fell

is that feel is To use the sense of touch.fell is to make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.

As nouns the difference between feel and fell

is that feel is a quality of an object experienced by touch while fell is that portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.

As adjectives the difference between feel and fell

is that feel is alternative form of lang=en while fell is of a strong and cruel nature; eagre and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.

As adverbs the difference between feel and fell

is that feel is alternative form of lang=en while fell is sharply; fiercely.

As a pronoun feel

is alternative form of lang=en.

feel

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) felen, from (etyl) .

Verb

(lb) To use the sense of touch.

# To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.

#(lb) To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.

#(lb) To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.

#(lb) To search by sense of touch.

(lb) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.

#(lb) To experience an emotion or other mental state about.

#*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

#*:Teach me to feel another's woe.

#*:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile?; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.

#*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington

, title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}

#(lb) To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.

#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:Garlandswhich I feel / I am not worthy yet to wear.

#*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=19 citation , passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}

# To experience an emotion or other mental state.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.}}

#(lb) To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.

#*(Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)

#*:[She] feels with the dignity of a Roman matron.

#*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

#*:who feel for all mankind

(lb) To be or become aware of.

(lb) To experience the consequences of.

(lb) To seem (through touch or otherwise).

To understand.

Usage notes

* Most prescriptive grammarians prefer "I feel bad" to "I feel badly", but "I feel badly" is widely used in US English. * (term) is sometimes used after (feel) in its copulative sense where one might expect an adjective, ie, (bad). * Some users use (badly) when referring to an emotional state, and (bad) when referring to a more physical or medical state. * Adjectives to which "feel" is often applied as a copula: free, cold, cool, warm, hot, young, old, good, great, fine, happy, glad, satisfied, excited, bad, depressed, unhappy, sad, blue, sorry, smart, stupid, loved, appreciated, accepted, rejected, lonely, isolated, insulted, offended, slighted, cheated, shy, refreshed, tired, exhausted, calm, relaxed, angry, annoyed, frustrated, anxious, worried, jealous, proud, confident, safe, grateful, uncomfortable, unsafe, insecure, desperate, guilty, ashamed, disappointed, dirty, odd, strange, ill, sick.

Derived terms

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Noun

(en noun)

A quality of an object experienced by touch.

Bark has a rough feel .

A vague mental impression.

You should get a feel of the area before moving in.

An act of fondling.

She gave me a quick feel to show that she loves me.

A vague understanding

I'm getting a feel for what you mean.

An intuitive ability

She has a feel for music.

Alternative form of feeling

I know that feel.

Derived terms

* cop a feel * get a feel for * mouthfeel

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Etymology 2

From (etyl) feele, fele, feole, from (etyl) fela, feala, . Related to (l).

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fell

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) fellen, from (etyl) fellan, .

Verb

(en verb)

To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.

* Shakespeare

Stand, or I'll fell thee down.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=October 2 , author=Aled Williams , title=Swansea 2 - 0 Stoke , work=BBC Sport Wales citation , page= , passage=Sinclair opened Swansea's account from the spot on 8 minutes after a Ryan Shawcross tackle had felled Wayne Routledge.}}

To strike down, kill, destroy.

:* {{quote-book

, year=1922 , year_published=2010 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burroughs , title=The Chessmen of Mars , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=Gahan, horrified, saw the latter's head topple from its body, saw the body stagger and fall to the ground. ... The creature that had felled' its companion was dashing madly in the direction of the hill upon which he was hidden, it dodged one of the workers that sought to seize it. … Then it was that Gahan's eyes chanced to return to the figure of the creature the fugitive had ' felled . }}

:* {{quote-web

, date=2010-09-27 , year= , first= , last= , author=Christina Passariello , authorlink= , title=Prodos Capital, Samsung Make Final Cut for Ferré , site=Wall Street Journal citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-08-26 , passage=… could make Ferré the first major fashion label felled by the economic crisis to come out the other end of restructuring. }}

Verb

(head)

(fall)

Etymology 2

(etyl) 'skin', Russian plená'' 'pelt', (etyl) plah 'to cover', Ancient Greek ''péllas 'skin').

Noun

(en noun)

That portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.

An animal skin, hide.

* Shakespeare:

We are still handling our ewes, and their fells , you know, are greasy.

(textiles) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.

Verb

(en verb)

(sewing) To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.

* 2006, Colette Wolff, The Art of Manipulating Fabric , page 296:

To fell seam allowances, catch the lining underneath before emerging 1/4" (6mm) ahead, and 1/8" (3mm) to 1/4" (6mm) into the seam allowance.

(wikipedia fell)

Etymology 3

From (etyl) fell, . Compare (m).

Noun

(en noun)

A rocky ridge or chain of mountains.

* 1937 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,

While hammers fell like ringing bells,

In places deep, where dark things sleep,

In hollow halls beneath the fells.

* {{quote-book

, year=1886 , author=Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr , title=The Squire of Sandal-Side : A Pastoral Romance , work= citation , page= , passage=Every now and then the sea calls some farmer or shepherd, and the restless drop in his veins gives him no peace till he has found his way over the hills and fells to the port of Whitehaven, and gone back to the cradling bosom that rocked his ancestors.}}

* 1971 Catherine Cookson, The Dwelling Place

She didn't know at first why she stepped off the road and climbed the bank on to the fells; it wasn't until she found herself skirting a disused quarry that she realised where she was making for, and when she reached the place she stood and gazed at it. It was a hollow within an outcrop of rock, not large enough to call a cave but deep enough to shelter eight people from the rain, and with room to spare.

A wild field or upland moor.

Etymology 4

From (etyl) fel, . See felon.

Adjective

(er)

Of a strong and cruel nature; eagre and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

while we devise fell tortures for thy faults

* 1663 , (Hudibras) , by , part 1,

And many a serpent of fell kind, / With wings before, and stings behind

*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)

, chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}

Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent; clever.

(label) Eager; earnest; intent.

* (Samuel Pepys) (1633-1703)

I am so fell to my business.

Adverb

(en adverb)

Sharply; fiercely.

Derived terms

* (l)

Noun

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Gall; anger; melancholy.

* Spenser:

Untroubled of vile fear or bitter fell .

* XIX c. ,

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.

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Etymology 5

Noun

(mining) The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.

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