Fell vs Well - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between fell and well

is that fell is to make something fall; especially to chop down a tree while well is to issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.

As nouns the difference between fell and well

is that fell is that portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down while well is a hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.

As adjectives the difference between fell and well

is that fell is of a strong and cruel nature; eagre and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage while well is in good health.

As adverbs the difference between fell and well

is that fell is sharply; fiercely while well is accurately, competently, satisfactorily.

As an interjection well is

used to acknowledge a statement or situation.

fell

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) fellen, from (etyl) fellan, .

Verb

(en verb)

To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.

* Shakespeare

Stand, or I'll fell thee down.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=October 2 , author=Aled Williams , title=Swansea 2 - 0 Stoke , work=BBC Sport Wales citation , page= , passage=Sinclair opened Swansea's account from the spot on 8 minutes after a Ryan Shawcross tackle had felled Wayne Routledge.}}

To strike down, kill, destroy.

:* {{quote-book

, year=1922 , year_published=2010 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burroughs , title=The Chessmen of Mars , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=Gahan, horrified, saw the latter's head topple from its body, saw the body stagger and fall to the ground. ... The creature that had felled' its companion was dashing madly in the direction of the hill upon which he was hidden, it dodged one of the workers that sought to seize it. … Then it was that Gahan's eyes chanced to return to the figure of the creature the fugitive had ' felled . }}

:* {{quote-web

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Verb

(head)

(fall)

Etymology 2

(etyl) 'skin', Russian plená'' 'pelt', (etyl) plah 'to cover', Ancient Greek ''péllas 'skin').

Noun

(en noun)

That portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.

An animal skin, hide.

* Shakespeare:

We are still handling our ewes, and their fells , you know, are greasy.

(textiles) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.

Verb

(en verb)

(sewing) To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.

* 2006, Colette Wolff, The Art of Manipulating Fabric , page 296:

To fell seam allowances, catch the lining underneath before emerging 1/4" (6mm) ahead, and 1/8" (3mm) to 1/4" (6mm) into the seam allowance.

(wikipedia fell)

Etymology 3

From (etyl) fell, . Compare (m).

Noun

(en noun)

A rocky ridge or chain of mountains.

* 1937 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,

While hammers fell like ringing bells,

In places deep, where dark things sleep,

In hollow halls beneath the fells.

* {{quote-book

, year=1886 , author=Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr , title=The Squire of Sandal-Side : A Pastoral Romance , work= citation , page= , passage=Every now and then the sea calls some farmer or shepherd, and the restless drop in his veins gives him no peace till he has found his way over the hills and fells to the port of Whitehaven, and gone back to the cradling bosom that rocked his ancestors.}}

* 1971 Catherine Cookson, The Dwelling Place

She didn't know at first why she stepped off the road and climbed the bank on to the fells; it wasn't until she found herself skirting a disused quarry that she realised where she was making for, and when she reached the place she stood and gazed at it. It was a hollow within an outcrop of rock, not large enough to call a cave but deep enough to shelter eight people from the rain, and with room to spare.

A wild field or upland moor.

Etymology 4

From (etyl) fel, . See felon.

Adjective

(er)

Of a strong and cruel nature; eagre and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

while we devise fell tortures for thy faults

* 1663 , (Hudibras) , by , part 1,

And many a serpent of fell kind, / With wings before, and stings behind

*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)

, chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}

Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent; clever.

(label) Eager; earnest; intent.

* (Samuel Pepys) (1633-1703)

I am so fell to my business.

Adverb

(en adverb)

Sharply; fiercely.

Derived terms

* (l)

Noun

(-)

Gall; anger; melancholy.

* Spenser:

Untroubled of vile fear or bitter fell .

* XIX c. ,

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.

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Etymology 5

Noun

(mining) The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.

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well

English

(wikipedia well)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), . Related to (will).

Alternative forms

* (dialectal) * (Scotland) *

Adverb

(lb) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.

* {{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page= 266

, passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well -remembered road.}}

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well . Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}

(lb) Completely, fully.

Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.

(lb) To a significant degree.

Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).

* 1999 , "Drummond Pearson", What Ash are doing right now...'' (on Internet newsgroup ''alt.music.ash )

That guy rocks! I think he's called Matthew Lillard or sommat but he is well cool in Scream.

* 2002 , "jibaili", FIFA 2003 How is it?'' (on Internet newsgroup ''microsoft.public.xbox )

Hey Dude / FIFA 2003 is well wicked, I've got FIFA 2002 on PS2, David Beckham on Xbox and Football Manager on Xbox too, out of all pf(SIC) them FIFA 2003 is easliy(SIC) the best.

* 2003 , Steve Eddy, Empower, Book 2

Hey, you should've seen it, it was well good.

In such manner as is desirable; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

It boded well to you.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

Know / In measure what the mind may well contain.

* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

All the world speaks well of you.

Derived terms

* all too well * as well * do well by doing good * full well * fully well * just as well * pretty well * well and truly * well-behaved * well-known * well-mannered * well-padded * well-read * well-used

Adjective

In good health.

I had been sick, but now I'm well .

(archaic) Prudent; good; well-advised.

* 1897 , National Association of Railway Surgeons, Railway surgeon , page 191:

On leaving the operating table it is well to put the patient in a bed previously warmed and supplied with hot cans.

Derived terms

* full well * get well * * well-being

Interjection

(en interjection)

Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.

* , chapter=5

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=“Well ,” I says, “I cal'late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.}}

An exclamation of surprise, often doubled or tripled.

Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=“Well ,” I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.}}

Used in speech to fill gaps; filled pause.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.

* Bible, John iv. 11

The woman said unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep.

A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.

* Milton

Begin, then, sisters of the sacred well .

A small depression suitable for holding liquid, or other objects.

(figurative) A source of supply.

* Spenser

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled

* Keble

a well of serious thought and pure

(nautical) A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.

(nautical) The cockpit of a sailboat.

(nautical) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.

(nautical) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.

(military) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.

(architecture) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.

(metalworking) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.

A well drink.

They're having a special tonight: $1 wells .

(video games) The playfield of the video game Tetris , into which the blocks fall.

Derived terms

* ink well * light well (architecture) * oil well * spare tire well, spare tyre well * window well (architecture) * wishing well

Etymology 3

From (etyl) (m). Cognate with German .

Verb

(en verb)

To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.

* Dryden

[Blood] welled from out the wound.

* Bryant

[Yon spring] wells softly forth.

To have something seep out of the surface.

Her eyes welled with tears.

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