Feel vs. Fell — What's the Difference?

Be aware of (a person or object) through touching or being touched

A fell (from Old Norse fell, fjall, "mountain") is a high and barren landscape feature, such as a mountain or moor-covered hill. The term is most often employed in Norway, Fennoscandia, the Isle of Man, parts of northern England, and Scotland.

Experience (an emotion or sensation)

Cut down (a tree)

Have a belief or impression, especially without an identifiable reason

Stitch down (the edge of a seam) to lie flat

An act of touching something to examine it.

An amount of timber cut.

A sensation given by an object or material when touched

A hill or stretch of high moorland, especially in northern England

Feelings of heightened emotion

An animal's hide or skin with its hair.

To perceive through the sense of touch

Of terrible evil or ferocity; deadly

To perceive as a physical sensation

To cause to fall by striking; cut or knock down

To touch

To kill

To examine by touching

To sew or finish (a seam) with the raw edges flattened, turned under, and stitched down.

To test or explore with caution

Past tense of fall.

To undergo the experience of

The timber cut down in one season.

To be aware of; sense

A felled seam.

To be emotionally affected by

The hide of an animal; a pelt.

To be persuaded of (something) on the basis of intuition, emotion, or other indefinite grounds

A thin membrane directly beneath the hide.

To believe; think

Chiefly British An upland stretch of open country; a moor.

To experience the sensation of touch.

A barren or stony hill.

To produce a particular sensation, especially through the sense of touch

Of an inhumanly cruel nature; fierce

To produce a particular impression; appear to be; seem

Capable of destroying; lethal

To be conscious of a specified kind or quality of physical, mental, or emotional state

Dire; sinister

To seek or explore something by the sense of touch

(Scots) Sharp and biting.

To have compassion or sympathy

(transitive) To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.

Perception by touch or by sensation of the skin

(transitive) To strike down, kill, destroy.

The sense of touch

(sewing) To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.

An act or instance of touching or feeling

A cutting-down of timber.

(Vulgar) An act or instance of sexual touching or fondling.

The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.

An overall impression or effect

(textiles) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.

Intuitive awareness or natural ability

An animal skin, hide, pelt.

(heading) To use or experience the sense of touch.

Human skin now only as a metaphorical use of previous sense.

To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.

A rocky ridge or chain of mountains.

(transitive) To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.

A wild field or upland moor.

(intransitive) To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.

Anger; gall; melancholy.

(intransitive) To search by sense of touch.

Of a strong and cruel nature; eager and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.

(heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.

Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent

(transitive) To experience an emotion or other mental state about.

Very large; huge.

(transitive) To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.

(obsolete) Eager; earnest; intent.

To experience an emotion or other mental state.

Sharply; fiercely.

(intransitive) To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.

Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous.

(transitive) To be or become aware of.

Eager; earnest; intent.

(transitive) To experience the consequences of.

Gall; anger; melancholy.

(copulative) To seem (through touch or otherwise).

A skin or hide of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt; - used chiefly in composition, as woolfell.

To understand.

A barren or rocky hill.

(archaic) The sense of touch.

A wild field; a moor.

A perception experienced mainly or solely through the sense of touch.

The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes, when the ore is sorted by sifting.

A vague mental impression.

A form of seam joining two pieces of cloth, the edges being folded together and the stitches taken through both thicknesses.

An act of fondling.

The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.

A vague understanding.

To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down.

An intuitive ability.

To sew or hem; - said of seams.

A feeling; an emotion.

The dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)

Alternative form of fele

Seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges

Alternative form of fele

The act of felling something (as a tree)

Alternative form of fele

Cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow;

To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; to have sensation excited by contact of (a thing) with the body or limbs.

Pass away rapidly;

To touch; to handle; to examine by touching; as, feel this piece of silk; hence, to make trial of; to test; often with out.

Sew a seam by folding the edges

To perceive by the mind; to have a sense of; to experience; to be affected by; to be sensible of, or sensitive to; as, to feel pleasure; to feel pain.

(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering;

To take internal cognizance of; to be conscious of; to have an inward persuasion of.

To perceive; to observe.

To have perception by the touch, or by contact of anything with the nerves of sensation, especially those upon the surface of the body.

To have the sensibilities moved or affected.

To be conscious of an inward impression, state of mind, persuasion, physical condition, etc.; to perceive one's self to be; - followed by an adjective describing the state, etc.; as, to feel assured, grieved, persuaded.

To know with feeling; to be conscious; hence, to know certainly or without misgiving.

To appear to the touch; to give a perception; to produce an impression by the nerves of sensation; - followed by an adjective describing the kind of sensation.

Feeling; perception.

A sensation communicated by touching; impression made upon one who touches or handles; as, this leather has a greasy feel.

An intuitive awareness;

The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people;

A property perceived by touch

Manual-genital stimulation for sexual pleasure;

Undergo an emotional sensation;

Come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds;

Perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles;

Seem with respect to a given sensation given;

Have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude;

Undergo passive experience of:

Be felt or perceived in a certain way;

Grope or feel in search of something;

Examine by touch;

Examine (a body part) by palpation;

Find by testing or cautious exploration;

Produce a certain impression;

Pass one's hands over the sexual organs of;