(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.
Fur
Definition:
(n.) The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.
(n.) The skins of certain wild animals with the fur; peltry; as, a cargo of furs.
(n.) Strips of dressed skins with fur, used on garments for warmth or for ornament.
(n.) Articles of clothing made of fur; as, a set of furs for a lady (a collar, tippet, or cape, muff, etc.).
(n.) Any coating considered as resembling fur
(n.) A coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever.
(n.) The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.
(n.) The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.
(n.) One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures. There are nine in all, or, according to some writers, only six.
(a.) Of or pertaining to furs; bearing or made of fur; as, a fur cap; the fur trade.
(v. t.) To line, face, or cover with fur; as, furred robes.
(v. t.) To cover with morbid matter, as the tongue.
(v. t.) To nail small strips of board or larger scantling upon, in order to make a level surface for lathing or boarding, or to provide for a space or interval back of the plastered or boarded surface, as inside an outer wall, by way of protection against damp.
Example Sentences:
(1) Homozygotes have sparse greasy fur and lower viability and fertility than normal littermates.
(2) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
(3) The capacity (Bmax) for [3H]ketanserin binding was significantly lower (-21%; p less than 0.05) in sparse fur animals than in control animals; there was no change in affinity (KD).
(4) The fusion was prepared in multicopy (pVLN102 plasmid) and low-copy-number states, the latter constructed as a lambda phage lysogen carrying a fur'-'lacZ insert.
(5) So that you know he's evil, he is dressed like a giant, bedraggled grey duckling, in a fur coat made up of bits of chewed-up wolf.
(6) The responsible allergens are contained in the urine, saliva, and secretions of furred animals.
(7) And I have come to tell you this: the trends for this coming season will be extremely expensive furs, very high-heeled shoes and full-length ballgowns.
(8) The film-maker had been due to present his new film Venus in Fur , which stars his wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, at an outdoor screening in Locarno’s Piazza Grande on Thursday.
(9) He was fined £800 and ordered to pay £3,500 costs by the Furness and District Magistrate court after being prosecuted by the CAA.
(10) The Fur protein was isolated in a single step by immobilized metal-ion-affinity chromatography over zinc iminodiacetate agarose.
(11) If that effect existed in small animals, they would lose less heat if nude than if fur or feathers were present.
(12) Regulation by iron occurs at the transcriptional level and is mediated by a ferrous iron binding protein designated Fur (ferric uptake regulation).
(13) Instrumental neutron activation analysis has been used for an initial evaluation of trace element content in samples of northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) from the Pribilof Islands.
(14) Junípero Serra's road to sainthood is controversial for Native Americans Read more When the King of Spain sent Jesuit priests to prevent Russian fur hunters from claiming the region, he directed them to educate and baptize native peoples so they could become Spanish citizens, but Serra had other plans.
(15) The results show that transcription of the fur gene is initiated from at least two different sites separated by 6 bp, which appear to originate from two overlapping promoters sensitive to catabolic activation.
(16) He throws confessions about his love of guns or his lust for violence into restaurant conversations, but his inanely sophisticated companions carry on conversing about the varieties of sushi or the use of fur by leading designers.
(17) Thus, the pattern of sensory innervation in the glabrous rat snout skin is similar to that found in other furred species described to date, but in addition, the sensory innervation of ridged skin in the rat also resembles that of epidermis organized into rete pegs.
(18) 5-Fluorouridine (100 microM, 26 micrograms ml-1) inhibited contraction of human fibroblasts by more than 80%, whereas only 10 microM (2.6 micrograms ml-1) 5-FUR was required for 90% inhibition of rabbit fibroblast contraction.
(19) In contrast, after weaning they showed a significant increment in the duration of face-washing, head-washing, fur licking and body-scratching.
(20) The other was David York, branch secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers and an organiser of the anti-academy protest in Barrow-in-Furness.