Felt vs. Velvet — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Felt and Velvet
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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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