felt
IPA: fˈɛɫt
noun
- 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.
- A hat made of felt.
- A felt-tip pen.
- (obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
- A surname.
- (astronomy) Acronym of fast-evolving luminous transient. (a type of supernova) [(astronomy) A type of weak supernova whose luminous shell cools quickly and within days goes dark]
verb
- (transitive) To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
- (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, felt.
- (transitive, poker) To cause a player to lose all their chips.
adjective
- That has been experienced or perceived.
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Examples of "felt" in Sentences
- It was basically an attempt at getting a song that the label felt good about that would be able to be played on the radio.
- When they laughed I laughed, and we bowed and shook hands, and they turned me round and felt me all over, and _felt my hands_. "
- He did not look up, but he felt, he just _felt_, all the eyes of all the little meadow people and forest folk burning right into him.
- And yet -- it may seem strange to you -- but I've felt all along -- I've _felt_ -- that something like this might probably happen any time. "
- Tyler finally admitted to me that he has been lying to me and alas, doesn’t love me at all, but only said it because he felt it would make things better and because it’s how he “wishes” he felt
- Yet again and again she felt constrained to make her simple supplication, pleading earnestly for her baby's life with the God the reality of whose being and power she now _felt_, spite of herself.
- She felt his black heart constantly throwing its shadow on to her own; she _felt_ this, but could not give to others, nor perhaps even to herself, what might be deemed a satisfactory reason for her impressions and forebodings; for in her was exemplified the words of the poet:
- 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
- He had felt the menace, known that it existed, and the slogan ringing always in his ears, the Whispered "Death to the Gray Seal" had taken on a deeper significance, had brought him a more acute and imminent sense of peril than ever before; but it was only last night, for the first time, that he had equally _felt_ that he had had any concrete knowledge of, or contact with this new antagonist.
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