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Felt vs Batting - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between felt and batting

is that 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 while batting is cotton, wool, silk or synthetic material used to stuff the inside of a mattress, quilt etc.

As verbs the difference between felt and batting

is that felt is to make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together while batting is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective felt

is that has been experienced or perceived.

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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    batting

    English

    Etymology 1

    .

    Noun

  • (sewing) cotton, wool, silk or synthetic material used to stuff the inside of a mattress, quilt etc
  • special cotton for surgery.

    • Synonyms

    * bat, batt

    Etymology 2

    .

    Noun

  • the act of someone who bats
    • the battings of her eyelashes

    Verb

    (head)