Felt vs. Melt — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Felt and Melt
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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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