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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.
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Velvet

Velvet is a type of woven tufted fabric in which the cut threads are evenly distributed, with a short dense pile, giving it a distinctive soft feel. By extension, the word velvety means "smooth like velvet".
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Felt

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

A closely woven fabric of silk, cotton, or nylon, that has a thick short pile on one side
An armchair covered in velvet
Red velvet curtains
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Felt

A material resembling this fabric.
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Velvet

A soft fabric having a smooth, dense pile and a plain underside.
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Felt

Something made of this fabric.
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Velvet

Something suggesting the smooth surface of velvet.
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Felt

Made of, relating to, or resembling felt.
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Velvet

Smoothness; softness.
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Felt

To make into felt.
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Velvet

The soft, furry covering on the developing antlers of deer.
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Felt

To cover with felt.
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Velvet

The winnings of a gambler.
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Felt

To press or mat (something) together.
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Velvet

A profit or gain beyond what is expected or due.
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Felt

To become like felt; mat together.
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Velvet

New England See milkshake.
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Felt

Past tense and past participle of feel.
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Velvet

A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
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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.
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Velvet

Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.
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Felt

A hat made of felt.
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Velvet

A female chinchilla; a sow.
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Felt

A felt-tip pen.
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Velvet

The drug dextromethorphan.
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Felt

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

Money acquired by gambling.
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Felt

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

To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.
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Felt

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

(cooking) To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.
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Felt

To cause a player to lose all their chips.
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Velvet

To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.
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Felt

Simple past tense and past participle of feel
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Velvet

To soften; to mitigate.
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Felt

That has been experienced or perceived.
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Velvet

(of a cat's claws) to retract.
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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.
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Velvet

Made of velvet.
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Felt

A hat made of felt.
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Velvet

Soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
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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.
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Velvet

(politics) peaceful, carried out without violence; especially as pertaining to the peaceful breakup of Czechoslovakia.
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Felt

A fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers
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Velvet

A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back, or with other soft fibers such as nylon, acetate, or rayon.
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Felt

Mat together and make felt-like;
Felt the wool
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Velvet

The soft and highly vascular deciduous skin which envelops and nourishes the antlers of deer during their rapid growth.
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Felt

Cover with felt;
Felt a cap
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Velvet

Something likened to velvet{1} in being soft or luxurious; as, a lawn of velvet.
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Felt

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

Made of velvet; soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
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Velvet

To pain velvet.
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Velvet

To make like, or cover with, velvet.
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Velvet

A silky densely piled fabric with a plain back
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Velvet

Smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste
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Velvet

Resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface
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