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Felt

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A fabric of matted, compressed animal fibers, such as wool or fur, sometimes mixed with vegetable or synthetic fibers.

n. A material resembling this fabric.

n. Something made of this fabric.

adj. Made of, relating to, or resembling felt.

v. To make into felt.

v. To cover with felt.

v. To press or mat (something) together.

verb-intransitive. To become like felt; mat together.

v. Past tense and past participle of feel.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. 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.

n. A hat made of felt.

n. A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.

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

v. To cover with, or as if with, felt.

v. Simple past tense and past participle of feel.

adj. That has been experienced or perceived.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

imp. & p. p. or a. from feel.

n. A cloth or stuff made of matted fibers 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.

n. A hat made of felt.

n. A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.

v. To make into felt, or a feltike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.

v. To cover with, or as with, felt.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. An unwoven fabric of short hair or wool, or of wool and fur, agglutinated or matted together, with the aid usually of moisture and heat, by rolling, beating, and pressure.

n. A piece of this material; some article of wearing-apparel made of it; specifically, a hat made of felted wool.

n. A thick matted growth of weeds, spreading by their roots.

n. Fell; skin.

n. A fabric made of hair, or asbestos and hair, sometimes saturated with a lime cement, used on steam-pipes and -boilers as a non-conducting covering.

n. A compound of liquid cement and animal or vegetable fiber, applied with a brush for the same purpose.

To mat (fibers) together, as in the manufacture of felt; make into felt or something resembling felt.

To cover with felt, as the cylinder of a steamengine.

To become felted; mat together.

Preterit and past participle of feel.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. mat together and make felt-like

v. change texture so as to become matted and felt-like

v. cover with felt

n. a fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers

Word Usage

"You must have felt that even the formula of the Church of Rome would be a blessed power to exercise, could it but once be accepted as a pledge that all the past was obliterated, and that from that moment a free untainted future lay before the soul -- you must have _felt_ that; you must have wished you had dared to"

Verb Form

felted felting felts

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

snarl entangle mat tangle change cover cloth fabric material textile

Cross Reference

adhesive felt paper-makers' felt felt carpet roofing-felt lining-felt microlitic felt foundation felt fire felt

Variant

feel

Form

felted felting

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

fell pelt

Verb Stem