(v. t.) To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; to have sensation excited by contact of (a thing) with the body or limbs.
(v. t.) To touch; to handle; to examine by touching; as, feel this piece of silk; hence, to make trial of; to test; often with out.
(v. t.) To perceive by the mind; to have a sense of; to experience; to be affected by; to be sensible of, or sensetive to; as, to feel pleasure; to feel pain.
(v. t.) To take internal cognizance of; to be conscious of; to have an inward persuasion of.
(v. t.) To perceive; to observe.
(v. i.) To have perception by the touch, or by contact of anything with the nerves of sensation, especially those upon the surface of the body.
(v. i.) To have the sensibilities moved or affected.
(v. i.) To be conscious of an inward impression, state of mind, persuasion, physical condition, etc.; to perceive one's self to be; -- followed by an adjective describing the state, etc.; as, to feel assured, grieved, persuaded.
(v. i.) To know with feeling; to be conscious; hence, to know certainly or without misgiving.
(v. i.) To appear to the touch; to give a perception; to produce an impression by the nerves of sensation; -- followed by an adjective describing the kind of sensation.
(n.) Feeling; perception.
(n.) A sensation communicated by touching; impression made upon one who touches or handles; as, this leather has a greasy feel.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm not sure Tolstoy ever worked out how he actually felt about love and desire, or how he should feel about it.
(2) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?
(3) All the patients told about a comfortable feeling of warmth after each treatment lasting for one two days.
(4) As players, we want what's right, and we feel like no one in his family should be able to own the team.” The NBA has also said that Shelly Sterling should not remain as owner.
(5) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
(6) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
(7) But at the same time I didn't feel like, 'Aw, I'm home!'
(8) It shows that the outside world is paying attention to what we're doing; it feels like we're achieving something."
(9) Pint from £2.90 The Duke Of York With its smart greige interior, flagstone floor and extensive food menu (not tried), this newcomer feels like a gastropub.
(10) By adjustment to the swaying movements of the horse, the child feels how to retain straightening alignment, symmetry and balance.
(11) The role of the therapist's own depressive feelings when working with this type of families is considered.
(12) It can also solve a lot of problems – period.” However, Trump did not support making the officer-worn video cameras mandatory across the country, as the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has done , noting “different police departments feel different ways”.
(13) If he is not bluffing, this may cause a total rift with the European family from which Turkey already feels excluded.
(14) It can feel as though an official opinion has been issued.
(15) These included: 1) association of infectious processes with other laboratory results; 2) a feeling of integration with the patient and health care team; and 3) the introduction of medical terminology.
(16) In that respect, it's difficult to see Allen's anthem as little more than same old same old, and it's probably why I ultimately feel she misses the mark.
(17) If this is what 70s stoners were laughing at, it feels like they’ve already become acquiescent, passive parts of media-relayed consumer society; precursors of the cathode-ray-frazzled pop-culture exegetists of Tarantino and Kevin Smith in the 90s.
(18) Second, the nurse must be aware of the wide range of feeling and attitudes on specific sexual issues that have proved troublesome to our society.
(19) There are questions with regard to the interpretation of some of the newer content scales of the MMPI-2, whereas most clinicians feel comfortably familiar, even if not entirely satisfied, with the Wiggins Content Scales of the MMPI.
(20) "For a few it will feel like having your wallet nicked with the mugger then handing you a few bob back to buy a pint.
Heft
Definition:
(n.) Same as Haft, n.
(n.) The act or effort of heaving/ violent strain or exertion.
(n.) Weight; ponderousness.
(n.) The greater part or bulk of anything; as, the heft of the crop was spoiled.
() of Heft
(v. t.) To heave up; to raise aloft.
(v. t.) To prove or try the weight of by raising.
Example Sentences:
(1) V-HeFT, the first mortality trial in patients with heart failure, has provided important insights regarding trial design, including patient selection and efficacy criteria.
(2) It’s the failure of an over-centralised prime ministerial office, too small to have real intellectual and research heft yet arrogant enough to overrule FCO advisers.
(3) Maybe the broader movie-going public that adds heft to a blockbuster's box office has grown tired of Middle Earth after all these years.
(4) The reduction of mortality in patients with chronic congestive heart failure treated with the vasodilator regimen hydralazine and isosorbide dinitrate compared to those treated with placebo or prazosin in the Veterans Administration Cooperative Study (V-HeFT) was examined in order to explore the possible mechanism of the favourable effect.
(5) The 5S will cost $649 (£549) without a contract, and also comes with a 10cm (4in) screen and an 8 megapixel camera – the same as the iPhone 5 – with double the processing heft of its predecessor.
(6) Outside parliament, Lib Dem party circles and his Kingston constituency, he was barely known, and he lacks both the smooth, television-friendly manners of a Cameron or Clegg, and the heft brought to parliament by those with a previous career (Davey got a job with the Liberal Democrats a few months after leaving university).
(7) That's a job for parents and teachers, the authorities with the heft and reach to alter public perceptions.
(8) Thick hunks of Heft Co sourdough are served with jam from cult LA restaurant Sqirl .
(9) The Australian Industry Group’s chief executive, Innes Willox, said the inquiry should consider “various funds established by unions and heft commissions paid to unions from insurance products purchased during bargaining” but improper behaviour by employers should also be dealt with.
(10) They spoke as one, both showing their commitment to Grangemouth and both putting their respective governmental heft behind the attempt to restart the plant.
(11) Photograph: National Trust What do you do if you hanker after a dose of solitude somewhere scenic and remote, but can no longer heft a heavy rucksack because of a dodgy back?
(12) The angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEI) are now the cornerstone of heart failure treatment, reducing mortality in severe heart failure (CONSENSUS) and superior to standard vasodilator therapy (V-HeFT-2) at improving the survival of patients with mild to moderate heart failure.
(13) More than 100 organizations have lent their support, including the institutional heft of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the world’s largest general scientific organization, and the American Geophysical Union.
(14) This situation highlights the challenges facing a country still recovering from the global financial crisis that began on its own soil, with fractured domestic politics that not only jeopardise its ability to govern at home but also cast doubt on its economic heft abroad.
(15) The overwhelming impression is one of tasteful reserve, of glistening cream paint and shining green and black railings – until you pause to examine the enormous heft of the houses: vast, detached palaces, with too many windows to count, on a scale dwarfing other private homes in London .
(16) As the Liberal Democrat elder statesman with most economic heft, it was for him on Monday to express the peril we stand in – and, were he free to do so, to warn of Conservative policies that gravely worsen the danger.
(17) Michael Gove will bring to their cause some intellectual heft and a talent for making a fluent case, though it is not yet clear how actively the justice secretary will campaign when he knows that an Out success would mean the destruction of his friends in Downing Street.
(18) Samsung's colossal market share in smartphones and mobile phones, for instance, is reflected in installed base figures – and also in its profits and heft in the business world.
(19) This result corresponded to an optimal relation at peak kinetic energy for the hefting.
(20) Again a number of ongoing major trials are set to establish whether these drugs reduce death in patients with chronic heart failure (V-HeFT II, SOLVD) and in patients immediately after myocardial infarction (CONSENSUS II, SAVE,.