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# felt

«felt» in Mova's school dictionary: **the past of «feel»: you felt happy, you felt the soft fur** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (past and past participle of feel: feel, feels, felt, feeling); noun (felt — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Felt is the past of «feel»: you felt happy, you felt the soft fur. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/felt/#m1)

2) Felt is a thick, soft cloth made by pressing wool or other fibres together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/felt/#m2)

3) «Felt-tip pen» is a pen with a soft tip of this material. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/felt/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories «felt» tells the reader about a character's emotions or what they touched; in art and craft lessons you cut and glue felt shapes. Phrases: «felt sorry for», «felt like», «felt better», «felt-tip pen».

### examples

- I felt very happy on my birthday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/felt/#x1)
- She felt the warm sand under her feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/felt/#x2)
- He felt sorry for the lost puppy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/felt/#x3)
- We made puppets out of felt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/felt/#x4)
- Colour the picture with felt-tip pens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/felt/#x5)
- I felt like going home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/felt/#x6)
- After a rest, she felt better. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/felt/#x7)
- Of course he felt quite hopeless. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/felt/#x8)

### note

Irregular: feel – felt – felt. Not «feeled». «Felt like» can mean «wanted to» (I felt like a snack) or «seemed like» (it felt like a dream). Felt the cloth is uncountable.

### In the corpora

- [Whether that counts as real understanding is something scientists still argue about, but it has never felt sad in a body.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/4/)
- [But you lived them in words: you learned what happened, what people felt and what was wise.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/27-who-you-are-words-not-body/1/)
- [That is honest; claiming you felt the waves would not be.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/27-who-you-are-words-not-body/4/)
- [Even the colours in black felt-tip ink can be pulled apart on wet kitchen paper.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/8-separating-mixtures/4/)
- [People use euphemisms about the body and illness to be polite, to protect someone's feelings, or because a subject felt embarrassing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «felt» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/felt/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.