feltとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• felte (archaic)

発音

• IPA: /fɛlt/
• 韻: -ɛlt

語源 1

From 中期英語 felt, from 古期英語 felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish filt, French feutre), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”, adjective), Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos)), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.

名詞

felt (countable and uncountable, plural felts)

1. 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.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:

     It were a delicate stratagem to shoe
     A troop of horse with felt.

2. A hat made of felt.
3. A felt-tip pen.
   • 1989, Anne D. Forester, Margaret Reinhard, The Learners' Way, page 116:

     You'll notice that all the illustrations are done in different media: some with pencil crayons, some with felts, some with paint, some with chalk pastels.

4. (obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
   • 1707, John Mortimer, The whole art of husbandry:

     To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.

派生語

動詞

felt (third-person singular simple present felts, present participle felting, simple past and past participle felted)

1. (transitive) To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
   • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:

     the same Wool , for instance , one Men felts it into a Hat, another weaves it into Cloth , another weaves it into Kersey or Serge

2. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, felt.

   to felt the cylinder of a steam engine

3. (transitive, poker) To cause a player to lose all their chips.

派生語

• refelt

語源 2

From 古期英語 fēled, corresponding to feel +‎ -ed.

動詞

felt

1. simple past and past participle of feel

形容詞

felt (comparative more felt, superlative most felt)

1. That has been experienced or perceived.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 257:

     Conversions to Islam can therefore be a deeply felt aesthetic experience that rarely occurs in Christian accounts of conversion, which are generally the source rather than the result of a Christian experience of beauty.

派生語

アナグラム

• flet, Left, TEFL, FLET, left

発音

• IPA: /felt/, [feɫt]

名詞

felt m

1. felt

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

派生した語

• Middle English: felt, felte, feltte, feelte
  • English: felt
  • Scots: felt

語源

From 古期英語 felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt.

発音

• IPA: /fɛlt/

名詞

felt (plural feltes)

1. Felted fabric or a sample or swab of it; felt.
2. A piece of headgear made from felted fabric; a felt hat.

派生語

• felten
• felter

派生した語

• English: felt
• Scots: felt

参照

• “felt, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 September 2018.