adj
Meaning 1
That has been experienced or perceived.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Standard Lemma guide
felt
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈfæ̝lt/ salary-celery
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name
Meaning 2
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
A hat made of felt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
A felt-tip pen.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 6
A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
Acronym of fast-evolving luminous transient, a type of supernova.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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verb
Meaning 8
To make into felt or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 9
To cover with, or as if with, felt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- to felt the cylinder of a steam engine
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verb
Meaning 10
To cause (a player) to lose all their chips.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: card-games, poker
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verb
Meaning 11
To thoroughly defeat or humiliate (someone).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, broadly, transitive
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verb
Meaning 12
simple past and past participle of feel
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past, transitive
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noun
Meaning 13
a fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: fabric, cloth, material, textile
verb
Meaning 14
change texture so as to become matted and felt-like
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The fabric felted up after several washes
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change
verb
Meaning 15
cover with felt
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- felt a cap
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Synonyms: none provided
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Broader terms: cover
verb
Meaning 16
mat together and make felt-like
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- felt the wool
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: entangle, tangle, mat, snarl
History
Etymology
From Old English fēled, corresponding to feel + -ed.
From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish filt, French feutre), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”, adjective), Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos)), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.
Across languages
Translations
123 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: plis — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Southern Altai: кийис (kiyis) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Arabic: لبد (libd) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Armenian: թաղիք (tʻaġikʻ) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Asturian: fieltru — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Azerbaijani: keçə — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Azerbaijani: kiyiz — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Bashkir: кейеҙ (keyeź) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Basque: feltro — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Breton: feltr — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Bulgarian: филц (filc) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Catalan: feltre — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Chinese Mandarin: 毛氈 /毛毡 (máozhān) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Chuvash: кӗҫҫе (kĕśśe) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Crimean Tatar: kiyiz — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Crimean Tatar: keçe — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Czech: plsť — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Czech: filc — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Danish: filt — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Dutch: vilt — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Esperanto: felto — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Estonian: vilt — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Finnish: huopa — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- French: feutre — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- French: feutrine — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Gagauz: keçä — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Galician: feltro — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Georgian: თექა (teka) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- German: Filz — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Greek: κετσές (ketsés) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Greek: τσόχα (tsócha) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Ancient Greek: πῖλος (pîlos) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Hebrew: לבד (léved) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Hindi: नमदा (namdā) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Hungarian: nemez — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Hungarian: filc — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Ido: felto — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Italian: feltro — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Japanese: フェルト (feruto) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Japanese: 羅紗 (rasha) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Japanese: 毛氈 (mōsen) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Karachay-Balkar: кийиз (kiyiz) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Karakalpak: kiyiz — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Karakalpak: kiygiz — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Kazakh: киіз (kiız) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Khakas: киис (kiis) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Khinalug: ттагьла (tːahla) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Khmer: សំបុក (sɑmbok) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Korean: 펠트 (pelteu) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Kumyk: кийиз (kiyiz) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Kyrgyz: кийиз (kiyiz) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Latin: coactum — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Latvian: filcs — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Lithuanian: veltinys — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Luxembourgish: Filz — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Macedonian: чоја (čoja) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Māori: kirihuru — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Mongolian: эсгий (esgii) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Nogai: кийиз (kiyiz) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Norwegian Bokmål: filt — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Norwegian Nynorsk: filt — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Old English: felt — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Persian: نمد (namad) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Plautdietsch: Burr — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Polish: filc — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Polish: pilśń — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Portuguese: feltro — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Romanian: pâslă — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Russian: фетр (fetr) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Russian: во́йлок (vójlok) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Salar: çiyik — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Serbo-Croatian: пуст — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Serbo-Croatian: филц — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Serbo-Croatian: pust — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Serbo-Croatian: filc — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Slovak: plsť — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Spanish: fieltro — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Spanish: hieltro (disused) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Swedish: filt — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Tagalog: pyeltro — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Tagalog: piyeltro — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Thai: สักหลาด (sàk-gà-làat) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Tibetan: ཕྱིང་པ (phying pa) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Turkish: aba — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Turkish: keçe — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Turkish: kiyiz — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Tuvan: кидис (kidis) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Ukrainian: повсть (povstʹ) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Ukrainian: фетр (fetr) — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Uyghur: kigiz — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Uzbek: kigiz — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Volapük: fül — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Welsh: brethyn llawban — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Welsh: ffilt — cloth made of matted fibres of wool
- Bulgarian: филцова шапка (filcova šapka) — hat made of felt
- Czech: plsťák — hat made of felt
- Czech: plstěný klobouk — hat made of felt
- Danish: filthat — hat made of felt
- Finnish: huopahattu — hat made of felt
- French: feutre — hat made of felt
- German: Filzhut — hat made of felt
- Hungarian: nemezkalap — hat made of felt
- Khmer: មួកសំបុក (muəksɑmbok) — hat made of felt
- Norwegian: filthatt — hat made of felt
- Portuguese: feltro — hat made of felt
- Serbo-Croatian: pusteni šešir — hat made of felt
- Spanish: fieltro — hat made of felt
- Spanish: hieltro (disused) — hat made of felt
- Turkish: fötr — hat made of felt
- Volapük: fülahät — hat made of felt
- Dutch: vilten — make into felt
- Finnish: huovuttaa — make into felt
- Galician: feltrar — make into felt
- German: filzen — make into felt
- Italian: feltrare — make into felt
- Portuguese: feltrar — make into felt
- Spanish: fieltrar — make into felt
- Danish: filte — cover with felt
- Finnish: huovittaa — cover with felt
- Galician: feltrar — cover with felt
- Italian: feltrare — cover with felt
- Portuguese: feltrar — cover with felt
- Spanish: fieltrar — cover with felt