felt
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Etymology 1 [edit]
Old English felt, from Proto-Germanic *feltaz (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish filt), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”) (adj.), Old Church Slavonic plŭstĭ, Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pilos)), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.
Noun [edit]
Wikipedia felt (uncountable)
- 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.
- Shakespeare, King Lear, act 4, scene 6:
- 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.
- 1707, John Mortimer, The whole art of husbandry:
Translations [edit]
cloth made of matted fibres of wool
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hat made of felt
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Related terms [edit]
- 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 [edit]
felt (third-person singular simple present felts, present participle felting, simple past and past participle felted)
- (transitive) To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Matthew Hale to this entry?)
- (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, felt.
- to felt the cylinder of a steam engine
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Etymology 2 [edit]
Old English fēled, corresponding to feel + -ed.
Verb [edit]
felt
- simple past tense and past participle of feel
Adjective [edit]
felt (comparative more felt, superlative most felt)
- 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.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 257:
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Danish [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
From Middle Low German velt, from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“flat”).
Gender changed by influence from mark.
Noun [edit]
felt c (singular definite felten, not used in plural form)
- field (the practical part of something)
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Etymology 2 [edit]
From German Feld, from Old High German feld, from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“flat”).
Noun [edit]
felt n (singular definite feltet, plural indefinite felter)
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Inflection [edit]
Inflection of felt
Norwegian Bokmål [edit]
Noun [edit]
felt n (definite singular feltet; indefinite plural felt; definite plural felta/feltene)
Verb [edit]
felt
- Past participle of felle
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- English simple past forms
- English past participles
- English adjectives
- English irregular past participles
- English irregular simple past forms
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