(n.) 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.
(n.) A hat made of felt.
(n.) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
(v. t.) To make into felt, or a feltike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
(v. t.) To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder of a steam emgine.
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) I remember talking to an investment banker about what it felt like in the City before the closure of Lehman Brothers.
(3) I felt a much stronger connection with the kids on my home block, who I rode bikes with nightly.
(4) There were 54 patients who had a family doctor, 38 felt he could assist in aftercare.
(5) It is felt that otologic surgery should be done before the pinna reconstruction as it is very important to try and introduce sound into these children at an early age.
(6) It felt like my very existence was being denied,” said Hahn Chae-yoon, executive director of Beyond the Rainbow Foundation.
(7) Polls indicated that anger over the government shutdown, which was sharply felt in parts of northern Virginia, as well as discomfort with Cuccinelli's deeply conservative views, handed the race to McAuliffe, a controversial Democratic fundraiser and close ally of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
(8) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
(9) I think of tattoos as art, but also, every time I look at mine, I relive the emotions I felt when I had them.
(10) Chadwick felt that Customs and Trading Standards needed to continue their war on illegal tobacco – if not, efforts to tackle smoking could be undermined.
(11) "I felt so relaxed today, I wasn't bouncing off the walls ready to race.
(12) The Cambridge-based couple felt ignored when tried to raise the alarm about the way their business – publisher Zenith – was treated by Lynden Scourfield, the former HBOS banker jailed last week, and David Mills’ Quayside Corporate Services.
(13) I personally felt grateful that British TV set itself apart from its international rivals in this way, not afraid to challenge, to stretch the mind and imagination.
(14) The percentage of those who felt they had successful results decreased with time: 82.8% felt their knees had improved immediately after postoperative rehabilitation; this decreased to 78.1% at 6 months, 73.5% at 1 year, 65.5% at 2 years, and 50.0% at 3 years.
(15) It is deeply moving hearing him talk now – as if from the grave – about a Christmas Day when he felt so frustrated and cut-off from his family that he had to go into the office to escape.
(16) The local MP, Rory Stewart, a mover and shaker on the broadband project, told me that he was desperate to get telehealth into Cumbria, but regretfully felt that it was not immediately doable, because the local council and healthcare community did not yet have the necessary expertise.
(17) We felt that this relatively high redislocation rate was due to failure to immobilize these shoulders for 3 weeks postoperatively.
(18) Last year, statistics showed that 95% of recipients felt more confident after getting a hearing dog.
(19) I felt like he was a little bit inexperienced and the race got away from him a little bit at the third-last.
(20) It is felt that the use of quinidine was causally related to the development of nephrotic syndrome in this patient.
Flap
Definition:
(n.) To beat with a flap; to strike.
(v.) Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment.
(v.) A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.
(v.) The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a wing.
(v.) A disease in the lips of horses.
(n.) To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat.
(v. i.) To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air.
(v. i.) To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing.
Example Sentences:
(1) 14 patients with painful neuroma, skin hyperesthesia or neuralgic rest pain were followed up (mean 20 months) after excision of skin and scar, neurolysis and coverage with pedicled or free flaps.
(2) A distally based posterior tibial artery adipofascial flap with skin graft was used for the reconstruction of soft tissue defects over the Achilles tendon in three cases and over the heel in three cases.
(3) Our results show that stenosis of about one-third of the original external diameter of the artery and vein of the pedicle in our model did not have any significant influence on the survival of the flap and ligation of the femoral artery distal to the branch to the flap did not produce any statistical difference in the viability of the flap.
(4) The haemodynamics and affecting factors of the acute random skin flap and the methods for monitoring its viability were studied.
(5) The general tendency of gradual CBF reduction from the pedicle to the distal end of all the flaps was observed.
(6) This report adds another modification of the standard gastrocnemius muscle flap: transtibial transposition of the muscle through the posterior cortex.
(7) The immediate reconstruction either by local flaps or by free grafts.
(8) Linton flap operation was performed in 202 patients with postphlebitic syndrome complicated by evident ulceration 64% of patients were followed up for 1-14 years.
(9) It was treated by the method of free autogenous gingival graft on the labial side and gingivectomy by flap on the palatal side.
(10) Osteocutaneous flaps from the foot are being utilized more for thumb and digit reconstruction.
(11) The difference from the Hughes flap is that the blood supply is maintained through two tubed pedicles of conjunctiva and Muller's muscle, rather than an apron of conjunctiva.
(12) These observations lead to the hypothesis that acidosis quenches fluorescence in distal skin flaps.
(13) The most common complications in breast augmentation surgery with homologous fat grafts obtained from fresh cadavers are presented, showing subsequent surgical procedures to reconstruct the breasts of such patients through use of silicone prostheses and muscle flaps from the latissimus dorsi.
(14) Both acquired defects were covered by two different cross-finger flap techniques, despite extensive scarring of the adjacent finger.
(15) Based on a limited experience we have found that triangular flap ureteroplasty is a worthwhile means of repeat reimplantation of the obstructed ureter and perhaps provides a better alternative than transureteroureterostomy.
(16) Is there not enough material available, can neck-, breast-or forehead flaps cover the defect, although they do not fulfill the demands for a satisfactory restoration of specific function.
(17) We present our initial experience with a new method of increasing the survival of acute skin flaps through stress conditioning using heat shock and recovery.
(18) We conclude that although the tissue expansion technique yields acceptable results, the TRAM flap yields superior aesthetic results in terms of both appearance and consistency.
(19) The usual approach to the inferior orbit has been through a subciliary skin incision and dissection of a skin flap to the orbital rim.
(20) Exteriorization is accomplished by mobilizing 2 lateral skin flaps from the perineum and joining them with the inverted U flap to reach the vagina.