felt

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Translations 1.2.1.2 Related terms 1.2.2 Verb 1.2.2.1 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Verb 1.4 Anagrams 2 Danish 2.1 Etymology 1 2.1.1 Noun 2.1.1.1 Derived terms 2.2 Etymology 2 2.2.1 Noun 2.2.1.1 Derived terms 2.2.1.2 Inflection 3 Norwegian 3.1 Noun 3.2 Verb

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[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /fεlt/, SAMPA: /fElt/
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  Rhymes: -ɛlt

[edit] Etymology 1

From Old English felt; akin to Dutch vilt, German Filz, and possibly to Greek hair or wool wrought into felt, Latin pilus (“‘hair’”), pileus (“‘a felt cap or hat’”).

[edit] Noun

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felt (uncountable)

1. 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.

2. A hat made of felt.
3. (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.

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• 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

[edit] Verb

to felt (third-person singular simple present felts, present participle felting, simple past and past participle felted)

1. (transitive) To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together. — Sir Matthew Hale
2. (transitive) To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder of a steam engine.

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• Swedish: filta

[edit] Etymology 2

See feel.

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felt

1. Simple past tense and past participle of feel.

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: eflt
• left
• TEFL

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[edit] Danish

[edit] Etymology 1

From Middle Low German velt, from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“‘flat’”).

Gender changed by influence from mark.

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felt c. (singular definite felten, not used in plural form)

1. field (the practical part of something)

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[edit] Etymology 2

From German Feld, from Old High German feld, from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“‘flat’”).

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felt n. (singular definite feltet, plural indefinite felter)

1. field
2. sphere, province
3. square

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[edit] Norwegian

[edit] Noun

felt n. (definite singular feltet; indefinite plural felt; definite plural felta/feltene)

1. field

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felt

1. Past participle of felle