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Got vs Felt - What's the difference?

got | felt |

As a proper noun got

is god.

As a verb felt is

to fear something.

got

English

Verb

(head)
  • (get)
  • We got the last bus home.
  • (British, NZ)
  • By that time we'd got very cold.
    I've got two children.
    How many children have you got ?
  • I can't go out tonight, I've got to study for my exams.
  • (Southern US, with to) ; have (to).
  • I got to go study.
  • * 1971 , Carol King and Gerry Goffin, “Smackwater Jack”, Tapestry , Ode Records
  • We got to ride to clean up the streets / For our wives and our daughters!
  • (Southern US, UK, slang) have
  • They got a new car.
    He got a lot of nerve.

    Usage notes

    * (past participle of get) The second sentence literally means "At some time in the past I got (obtained) two children", but in "have got" constructions like this, where "got" is used in the sense of "obtained", the sense of obtaining is lost, becoming merely one of possessing, and the sentence is in effect just a more colloquial way of saying "I have two children". Similarly, the third sentence is just a more colloquial way of saying "How many children do you have?" * (past participle of get) The American and archaic British usage of the verb conjugates as get-got-gotten or as get-got-got depending on the meaning (see for details), whereas the modern British usage of the verb has mostly lost this distinction and conjugates as get-got-got in most cases. * (expressing obligation) "Got" is a filler word here with no obvious grammatical or semantic function. "I have to study for my exams" has the same meaning. It is often stressed in speech: "You've just got to see this."

    Synonyms

    * gotta (informal )

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    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.

    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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