FELT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does felt mean? 

• FELT (noun)
  The noun FELT has 1 sense:

1. a fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers

  Familiarity information: FELT used as a noun is very rare.

• FELT (verb)
  The verb FELT has 3 senses:

1. mat together and make felt-like

2. cover with felt

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

  Familiarity information: FELT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FELT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("felt" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

Derivation:

felt (change texture so as to become matted and felt-like)

felt (cover with felt)

felt (mat together and make felt-like)

• FELT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mat together and make felt-like

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

felt the wool

Hypernyms (to "felt" is one way to...):

entangle; mat; snarl; tangle (twist together or entwine into a confusing mass)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

felt (a fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cover with felt

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

felt a cap

Hypernyms (to "felt" is one way to...):

cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They felt the cape

Derivation:

felt (a fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Change texture so as to become matted and felt-like

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

felt; felt up; mat; mat up; matt-up; matte; matte up

Context example:

The fabric felted up after several washes

Hypernyms (to "felt" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

felt (a fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers)

 Context examples 

And now I felt that it was not enough; I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Dorothy began to sob at this, for she felt lonely among all these strange people.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I felt relief, at least as far as the two men were concerned.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

'Strange story of high life'—you felt fairly high on that pedestal, did you not?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My wife saw your rampion from the window, and felt such a longing for it that she would have died if she had not got some to eat.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He could not express what he felt, and to himself he likened himself to a sailor, in a strange ship, on a dark night, groping about in the unfamiliar running rigging.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

If your birthday falls at the end of October, you likely felt the message of that new moon.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I only came here because I don't know many people and felt rather strange at first, you know.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He had thought her wretchedly altered, and in the first moment of appeal, had spoken as he felt.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He felt his way through the wet snow to the watery muskeg berries, and went by feel as he pulled up the rush-grass by the roots.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)