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Felt vs Velvet - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between felt and velvet

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 velvet is a closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.

As verbs the difference between felt and velvet

is that felt is to make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together while velvet is to coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.

As adjectives the difference between felt and velvet

is that felt is that has been experienced or perceived while velvet is made of velvet.

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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    velvet

    English

    (wikipedia velvet)

    Noun

  • A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
  • * , title=The Mirror and the Lamp
    • , chapter=2 citation , passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}
  • Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.
  • (rare ): A female chinchilla; a sow.

    • Derived terms

    * black velvet * Velvet Revolution * velvety (adjective)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (cooking) To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Made of velvet.
  • Soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
  • * Milton
    • The cowslip's velvet head.
  • (label) peaceful, carried out without violence; especially as pertaining to the peaceful breakup of Czechoslovakia.
  • * 1995 , Amin Saikal, William Maley, Russia in Search of Its Future , page 214
    • What at the time of the initial agreement of Yeltsin, Shushkevich and Kravchuk to join together in a new 'Commonwealth of Independent States' had seemed like a reconstitution of the lands of ancient Rus, quickly turned out to be, in the words of the leading Russian-Ukrainian reformer Aleksandr Tsipko, merely a 'velvet disintegration'.
  • * 2006 , The Analyst: Central and Eastern European Review
    • The disintegration always took place within internal borders, whether it was velvet , as in the case of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, or bloody, like Yugoslavia&
  • 39;s still unfinished break-up.
  • * 2011 , David Gillies, Elections in Dangerous Places: Democracy and the Paradoxes of Peacebuilding , page 248:
    • If the Sudanese can resolve the final steps in a velvet divorce and move in a more democratic direction, that will serve as a heartening "ideal model of change"
  • * 2011 , Javad Etaat quoted in Hooman Majd, The Ayatollahs' Democracy: An Iranian Challenge , page 39:
    • “I was once invited to give a speech about the attempt to topple Iran's political system through a ‘velvet' revolution,’ ” says Etaat in the debate, “but we all know that ‘' velvet revolutions’ always occur in dictatorships.”
  • * 2014 , Dana H. Allin, NATO's Balkan Interventions , page 97
    • There is such a thing as a velvet divorce: if Canada or Belgium were to split apart, the consequences would be unfortunate but manageable.