felt

• felte (archaic)

• IPA^(key): /fɛlt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛlt

From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish 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.

felt (countable and uncountable, plural felts)

1. 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.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:

     It were a delicate stratagem to shoe
     A troop of horse with felt.

2. A hat made of felt.
3. A felt-tip pen.
   • 1989, Anne D. Forester, Margaret Reinhard, The Learners' Way, page 116:

     You'll notice that all the illustrations are done in different media: some with pencil crayons, some with felts, some with paint, some with chalk pastels.

4. (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.

felt (third-person singular simple present felts, present participle felting, simple past and past participle felted)

1. (transitive) To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
   • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:

     the same Wool , for instance , one Men felts it into a Hat, another weaves it into Cloth , another weaves it into Kersey or Serge

2. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, felt.

   to felt the cylinder of a steam engine

3. (transitive, poker) To cause a player to lose all their chips.

From Old English fēled, corresponding to feel +‎ -ed.

felt

1. simple past and past participle of feel

felt (comparative more felt, superlative most felt)

1. That has been experienced or perceived.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 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.

• flet, Left, TEFL, FLET, left

From Middle Low German velt, from Old Saxon feld, from Proto-West Germanic *felþu.

Gender changed by influence from mark.

felt c (singular definite felten, not used in plural form)

1. field (the practical part of something)
2. (e.g., sciences, military) field; an outlying area, as opposed to e.g. the lab, office or barracks
   • 2017, Palle Lauring, Svenskekrige og enevoldsmagt, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:

     Han oplevede hele Tredveårskrigen i felten, fra først til sidst.

     He experienced all of the thirty-years war in the field, from the beginning to the end.

   • 1913, Anno 13 [i.e. tretten]: Tysklands rejsning mod Napoleon for 100 år siden:

     Han var rykket i Felten som Kaptain og Kompagnifører, men var dog nu blevet forfremmet til Major, ...

     He had deployed as a captain and a company-leader, but had now been promoted to major, ...

   • 1986, Johannes Møllehave, Vor tids tid: nutidige og utidige tids- og tankespring:

     Efter anden verdenskrig skrev Theodor W. Adorno: »Bemærkede man da ikke ved krigsslutningen, at folk kom stumme tilbage fra felten?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2012, Daniel Silva, Portræt af en spion: En Gabriel Allon-roman, Rosinante & Co, →ISBN:

     Han overvågede Sovjetunionens sammenbrud, ikke ude fra felten, men fra et komfortabelt kontor i Langley, ...

     He surveyed the collapse of the Soviet Union, not from the field, but from a comfortable office in Langley, ...

   • 1918, Georg Friedrich Nicolai, Krigens Biologi:

     ... Officerer og Mandskab, som vendte hjem fra Felten, ...

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1986, Grønland: årsberetning:

     I felten blev der ikke observeret nogen torske larver i prøverne, ...

     In the field, no cod larvae were observed in the samples, ...

   • 1993, Danmarks geologiske undersøgelse, Årsberetning for ... ; Arbejdsprogram ...:

     En af instituttets vigtigste opgaver i forbindelse med geologiske undersøgelser er dataindsamling i felten.

     One of the institute's most important tasks relating to the geological surveys is data collection in the field.

From German Feld, from Old High German feld, from Proto-West Germanic *felþu.

felt n (singular definite feltet, plural indefinite felter)

1. field
2. sphere, province
3. square

• “felt” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “felt,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

• felte, feltte, feelte

From Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt.

• IPA^(key): /fɛlt/

felt (plural feltes)

1. Felted fabric or a sample or swab of it; felt.
2. A piece of headgear made from felted fabric; a felt hat.

• felten
• felter

• English: felt
• Scots: felt

• “felt, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-10.

From German Feld.

felt n (definite singular feltet, indefinite plural felt or felter, definite plural felta or feltene)

1. field

From Middle Low German velt.

felt m (definite singular felten, uncountable)

1. field (in the military sense)

• feltarbeid (from English)
• feltprest
• feltrasjon
• felttog

felt

1. past participle of felle

• “felt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• NAOB [1]

From German Feld.

felt n (definite singular feltet, indefinite plural felt, definite plural felta)

1. field

From Middle Low German velt.

felt m (definite singular felten, uncountable)

1. field (in the military sense)

• feltarbeid (from English)
• feltprest
• feltrasjon
• felttog

felt

1. past participle of fella

• “felt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• feld
• ueld

From Proto-West Germanic *felþu, from Proto-Germanic *felþuz.

felt n

1. field

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Middle Dutch: velt
  • Dutch: veld
    • Afrikaans: veld
      • → English: veld
    • Negerhollands: veld
    • → Caribbean Javanese: fèlt

• “felt”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-West Germanic *felt.

• IPA^(key): /felt/, [feɫt]

felt m

1. felt

• Middle English: felt, felte, feltte, feelte
  • English: felt
  • Scots: felt

From Middle English felde, from Old English fylde.

• IPA^(key): /fɛɫt/

felt

1. simple past of vill

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 40