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As verbs the difference between feel and proof

is that feel is (lb) to use the sense of touch while proof is to proofread.

As nouns the difference between feel and proof

is that feel is a quality of an object experienced by touch while proof is (countable) an effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.

As adjectives the difference between feel and proof

is that feel is while proof is used in proving or testing.

As a pronoun feel

is .

As an adverb feel

is .

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.
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  • #(lb) To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.
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  • #(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.
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  • (lb) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
  • #(lb) To experience an emotion or other mental state about.
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  • #*(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.
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  • #*(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.
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  • , 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.
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  • #*(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.
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  • (lb) To seem (through touch or otherwise).
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  • To understand.
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  • 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
    * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

    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

    Statistics

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    Anagrams

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    Etymology 2

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

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • proof

    English

    (wikipedia proof)

    Noun

  • (countable) An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
  • * 1591 , , ''Humorous Poems ,
  • But the false Fox most kindly played his part,
    For whatsoever mother-wit or art
    Could work he put in proof . No practice sly,
    No counterpoint of cunning policy,
    No reach, no breach, that might him profit bring.
    But he the same did to his purpose wring.
  • * c. 1633 , , Act 1, Scene 1,
  • France I more praise and love; you are, my lord,
    Yourself for horsemanship much famed; and there
    You shall have many proofs to shew your skill.
  • * 1831 , , A System of Chemistry of Inorganic Bodies , Volume 2,
  • A given quantity of the spirits was poured upon a quantity of gunpowder in a dish and set on fire. If at the end of the combustion, the gunpowder continued dry enough, it took fire and exploded; but if it had been wetted by the water in the spirits, the flame of the alcohol went out without setting the powder on fire. This was called the proof .
  • (uncountable) The degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments which induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration.
  • * c.1603 , ,
  • I'll have some proof .
  • * 1841 , '' in ''Essays: First Series ,
  • It was a grand sentence of Emanuel Swedenborg, which would alone indicate the greatness of that man's perception, — "It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to confirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence."
  • * 1990 October 16, ,
  • Faith, faith is an island in the setting sun
    But proof , yes
    Proof is the bottom line for everyone
  • The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness which resists impression, or doesn't yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies.
  • (obsolete) Experience of something.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
  • But the chaste damzell, that had never priefe / Of such malengine and fine forgerye, / Did easely beleeve her strong extremitye.
  • (uncountable, obsolete) Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.
  • (countable, printing) A proof sheet; a trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination.
  • (countable, logic, mathematics) A sequence of statements consisting of axioms, assumptions, statements already demonstrated in another proof, and statements that logically follow from previous statements in the sequence, and which concludes with a statement that is the object of the proof.
  • (countable, mathematics) A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Compare prove, transitive verb , 5.
  • (obsolete) Armour of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armour of proof.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • (US) A measure of the alcohol content of liquor. Originally, in Britain, 100 proof' was defined as 57.1% by volume (not used anymore). In the US, 100 '''proof''' means that the alcohol content is 50% of the total volume of the liquid, and thus, absolute alcohol would be 200 ' proof .
  • Hyponyms

    * testimony * evidence * reason * argument * trial * demonstration

    Derived terms

    * artist's proof * burden of proof * conditional proof * prooflike * proof reader * proof of concept

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Used in proving or testing.
  • a proof''' load''; ''a '''proof charge
  • Firm or successful in resisting.
  • proof against harm
    water'''proof'''''; '''''bombproof .
  • * 1671 , '', 1820, Dr Aiken (biographies), ''Select Works of the British Poets , page 125,
  • And opportunity I here have had / To try thee, sift thee, and confess have found thee / Proof against all temptation as a rock / Of adamant, and, as a centre, firm :
  • * 1790 , , Reflections on the Revolution in France'', 1803, ''The Works of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke , Volume 5, page426,
  • This was a good, ?tout proof article of faith, pronounced under an anathema, by the venerable fathers of this philo?ophick ?ynod.
  • (of alcoholic liquors) Being of a certain standard as to alcohol content.
  • Derived terms

    * * bulletproof * mothproof * sale-proof * foolproof * childproof * waterproof * prooftext * shatter-proof

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To proofread.
  • (lb) To make resistant, especially to water.
  • To allow to rise (of yeast-containing dough).
  • To test the activeness of (yeast).