Felt vs Opine - What's the difference?
felt | opine |
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:
To have or express an opinion; to state as an opinion; to suppose, consider (that).
To give one's formal opinion (on'' or ''upon something).
(biochemistry) Any of a class of organic compounds, derived from amino acids, found in some plant tumours
As verbs the difference between felt and opine
is that felt is to fear something while opine is .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.
Statistics
*opine
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) opiner, from (etyl) ; see optate and opt.Verb
(opin)- I opined that matters would soon become considerably worse.
- ''"Your decisions," she opined , "have been unfailingly disastrous for this company."
- I had to opine on the situation because I thought a different perspective was in order.