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What is the difference between wool and felt?

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Felt is a hyponym of wool.



In obsolete terms the difference between wool and felt

is that wool is short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled while felt is a skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.

As nouns the difference between wool and felt

is that wool is the hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants while 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.

As a proper noun Wool

is a village in Dorset, England.

As a verb felt is

to make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.

As an adjective felt is

that has been experienced or perceived.

wool

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
  • * 2006 , Nigel Guy Wilson, Ancient Greece , page 692
    • The sheep were caught and plucked, because shears had not yet been invented to cut the wool from the sheep's back.
  • A cloth or yarn made from the wool of sheep.
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 12, Mireya Navarro, It May Market Organic Alternatives, but Is Your Cleaner Really Greener?, New York Times, url=
    • , passage=Spielvogel said wet cleaning also has limitations; while it is fine for cottons and fabrics worn in warm climates, he said, it can damage heavy wools or structured clothes like suit jackets. }}
  • Anything with a texture like that of wool.
  • * 1975 , Anthony Julian Huxley, Plant and Planet , page 223
    • The groundsels have leaves covered in wool for insulation
  • A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.
  • (obsolete) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
  • * Shakespeare
    • wool of bat and tongue of dog
  • (British, NZ) yarn (including that which is made from synthetic fibers.)

    • Coordinate terms

    * (hair of sheep) goathair, horsehair, qiviut

    Hyponyms

    * (cloth or yarn) felt, tweed, worsted

    Derived terms

    * andalusian wool * breech wool * burry wool * cotton wool * dead pulled wool * dyed in the wool * fleece wool * glass wool * ice wool * mineral wool * much cry and little wool * pull the wool over somebody's eyes * rag wool * scoured wool * seed wool * Shetland wool * shorn wool * steel wool * thibet wool * virgin wool * warm as wool * waste of wool * wire wool * wool grease * wool oil * woolgathering * woollen, woolly * woolly, wooly

    See also

    * (wikipedia "wool")

    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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