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Felt vs. Melt — What's the Difference?

Felt vs. Melt — What's the Difference?

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Felt

Felt is a textile material that is produced by matting, condensing and pressing fibers together. Felt can be made of natural fibers such as wool or animal fur, or from synthetic fibers such as petroleum-based acrylic or acrylonitrile or wood pulp-based rayon.

Melt

Make or become liquefied by heat
The hot metal melted the wax
Place under a hot grill until the cheese has melted

Felt

A fabric of matted, compressed animal fibers, such as wool or fur, sometimes mixed with vegetable or synthetic fibers.

Melt

Make or become more tender or loving
She was so beautiful that I melted
Richard gave her a smile that melted her heart

Felt

A material resembling this fabric.
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Melt

Leave or disappear unobtrusively
The compromise was accepted and the opposition melted away

Felt

Something made of this fabric.

Melt

An act or period of melting
The precipitation falls as snow and is released during the spring melt

Felt

Made of, relating to, or resembling felt.

Melt

To be changed from a solid to a liquid state especially by the application of heat.

Felt

To make into felt.

Melt

To dissolve
Sugar melts in water.

Felt

To cover with felt.

Melt

To disappear or vanish gradually as if by dissolving
The crowd melted away after the rally.

Felt

To press or mat (something) together.

Melt

To pass or merge imperceptibly into something else
Sea melted into sky along the horizon.

Felt

To become like felt; mat together.

Melt

To become softened in feeling
Our hearts melted at the child's tears.

Felt

Past tense and past participle of feel.

Melt

(Obsolete) To be overcome or crushed, as by grief, dismay, or fear.

Felt

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.

Melt

To change (a solid) to a liquid state especially by the application of heat.

Felt

A hat made of felt.

Melt

To dissolve
The tide melted our sand castle away.

Felt

A felt-tip pen.

Melt

To cause to disappear gradually; disperse.

Felt

(obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.

Melt

To cause (units) to blend
"Here individuals of all races are melted into a new race of men" (Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur).

Felt

(transitive) To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.

Melt

To soften (someone's feelings); make gentle or tender.

Felt

(transitive) To cover with, or as if with, felt.
To felt the cylinder of a steam engine

Melt

A melted solid; a fused mass.

Felt

To cause a player to lose all their chips.

Melt

The state of being melted.

Felt

Simple past tense and past participle of feel

Melt

The act or operation of melting.

Felt

That has been experienced or perceived.

Melt

The quantity melted at a single operation or in one period.

Felt

A cloth or stuff made of matted fibers 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.
It were a delicate stratagem to shoeA troop of horse with felt.

Melt

A usually open sandwich topped with melted cheese
A tuna melt.

Felt

A hat made of felt.

Melt

Molten material, the product of melting.

Felt

A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber.
To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.

Melt

The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.

Felt

A fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers

Melt

The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.

Felt

Mat together and make felt-like;
Felt the wool

Melt

A melt sandwich.

Felt

Cover with felt;
Felt a cap

Melt

(geology) Rock showing evidence of having been remelted after it originally solidified.
Numerous samples of breccia and impact melts were recovered by drilling into the floor of the crater.

Felt

Change texture so as to become matted and felt-like;
The fabric felted up after several washes

Melt

A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.

Melt

An idiot.

Melt

(ergative) To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
I melted butter to make a cake.
When the weather is warm, the snowman will disappear; he will melt.

Melt

To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
His troubles melted away.

Melt

To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.

Melt

(intransitive) To be discouraged.

Melt

To be emotionally softened or touched.
She melted when she saw the romantic message in the Valentine's Day card.

Melt

To be very hot and sweat profusely.
I need shade! I'm melting!

Melt

See 2d Milt.

Melt

To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow.

Melt

To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.
Thou would'st have . . . melted down thy youth.
For pity melts the mind to love.

Melt

To be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures.

Melt

To dissolve; as, sugar melts in the mouth.

Melt

To be softened; to become tender, mild, or gentle; also, to be weakened or subdued, as by fear.
My soul melteth for heaviness.
Melting with tenderness and kind compassion.

Melt

To lose distinct form or outline; to blend. See fondue.
The soft, green, rounded hills, with their flowing outlines, overlapping and melting into each other.

Melt

To disappear by being dispersed or dissipated; as, the fog melts away.

Melt

The process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid;
The power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster
The thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours

Melt

Reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating;
Melt butter
Melt down gold
The wax melted in the sun

Melt

Become or cause to become soft or liquid;
The sun melted the ice
The ice thawed
The ice cream melted
The heat melted the wax
The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase
Dethaw the meat

Melt

Become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial;
With age, he mellowed

Melt

Lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually;
Hundreds of actors were melting into the scene

Melt

Become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly;
The scene begins to fade
The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk

Melt

Become less intense and fade away gradually;
Her resistance melted under his charm

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