Felt vs Felt - What's the difference?
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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:
A hat made of felt.
(obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
* 1707 , John Mortimer, The whole art of husbandry :
To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
To cover with, or as if with, felt.
(feel)
That has been experienced or perceived.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 257:
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:
A hat made of felt.
(obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
* 1707 , John Mortimer, The whole art of husbandry :
To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
To cover with, or as if with, felt.
(feel)
That has been experienced or perceived.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 257:
In obsolete terms the difference between felt and felt
is that felt is a skin or hide; a fell; a pelt while felt is a skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.In transitive terms the difference between felt and felt
is that felt is to cover with, or as if with, felt while felt is to cover with, or as if with, felt.felt
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) felt, from (etyl) ), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.Noun
(wikipedia felt) (-)- It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt .
- To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.
Verb
(en verb)- (Sir Matthew Hale)
- to felt the cylinder of a steam engine
Etymology 2
(etyl) .Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- 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
Etymology 1
(etyl) felt, from (etyl) ), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.Noun
(wikipedia felt) (-)- It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt .
- To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.
Verb
(en verb)- (Sir Matthew Hale)
- to felt the cylinder of a steam engine
Etymology 2
(etyl) .Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.