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Felt vs Feels - What's the difference?

felt | feels |

As verbs the difference between felt and feels

is that felt is to fear something while feels is (feel).

As a noun feels is

.

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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    * * English irregular past participles English irregular simple past forms ----

    feels

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (colloquial) Feelings.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1809
    • , author=King George III of England , title=The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 6 , chapter= citation , isbn=9781468565263 , page=3987 , passage=Dr. Pope confirms my feels that the side is no better & the tenderness to the feel as great as when he was last here.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=2003
    • , author=Brenda A. Donahue , title=C.G. Jung's Complex Dynamics and the Clinical Relationship: One Map for Mystery , chapter= , url= , isbn=9780398074098 , page=100 , passage=If I could remember exactly, then I would know for sure whether or not my feels are real or not.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=2012
    • , author=Hisoka Takara , title=Child Support , chapter= , url= , isbn=9781468565263 , page=109 , passage=My feels were hurt.}}

    Synonyms

    * (feelings) fee-fees

    Verb

    (head)
  • (feel)

    • Anagrams

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