What's the difference between felt and thought?

Felt


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Feel
  • () imp. & p. p. / a. from Feel.
  • (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.

Thought


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Think
  • () imp. & p. p. of Think.
  • (n.) The act of thinking; the exercise of the mind in any of its higher forms; reflection; cogitation.
  • (n.) Meditation; serious consideration.
  • (n.) That which is thought; an idea; a mental conception, whether an opinion, judgment, fancy, purpose, or intention.
  • (n.) Solicitude; anxious care; concern.
  • (n.) A small degree or quantity; a trifle; as, a thought longer; a thought better.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Reactive metabolites which suppress splenic humoral immune responses are thought to be generated within the spleen rather than in distant tissues.
  • (2) To determine the accuracy of double-contrast arthrography in complete rotator cuff tears, we studied 805 patients thought to have a complete rotator cuff tear who had undergone double-contrast shoulder arthrography (DCSA) between 1978 and 1983.
  • (3) Blood pressure control was marginally improved during the study and it is thought possible that better patient compliance might explain this.
  • (4) The amino-terminal region of a 70 kDa mitochondrial outer membrane protein of yeast and the presequence of cytochrome c1, an inner membrane protein exposed to the intermembrane space, are thought to be responsible for localizing the proteins in their final destinations after synthesis in the cytosol.
  • (5) "The sending off was a joke, and I thought the penalty was even worse," Bruce said.
  • (6) The macrophage-derived product, interleukin 1 (IL 1) is thought to play an important regulatory role in the proliferation of T lymphocytes; however, its mechanism of action is unknown.
  • (7) Critics say he is unelectable as prime minister and will never be able to implement his plans, but he has nonetheless pulled attention back to an issue that many thought had gone away for good.
  • (8) Adding a layer of private pensions, it was thought, does not involve Government mechanisms and keeps the money in the private sector.
  • (9) Until recently, the control was thought to be governed by single, dominant genes, located within the I region of the H-2 complex.
  • (10) She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents.” If at least one of the women thought the killing was part of an elaborate prank, it might explain the “LOL” message emblazoned in large letters one of the killers t-shirts.
  • (11) Likewise, they had little or no effects on the fluorescence anisotropy of TMA-DPH, which is also thought to be located in the interfacial region of the lipid bilayer, either when the probe was located in the outer layer of the plasma membrane or when the probe was located in the inner membrane compartment.
  • (12) Sheez, I thought, is that what the revolutionary spirit of 1789 and 1968 has come to?
  • (13) My thoughts are with all those who have lost loved ones or been injured in this barbaric attack.
  • (14) This behavior consists of a very rapid bend of the body and tail that is thought to arise from the monosynaptic excitation of large primary motoneurons by the Mauthner cell.
  • (15) So we concluded that duplications and accessories should be thought to have similar meanings with the ordinary branching patterns of MCA in the occurrence of aneurysms.
  • (16) Why is it so surprising to people that a boy like Chol, just out of conflict, has thought through the needs of his country in such a detailed way?” While Beah’s zeal is laudable, the situation in South Sudan is dire .
  • (17) "While I wouldn't necessarily concur with all the specific recommendations of the report," Barker said, "there is one clear message that I do agree with: that solar has far more potential than has previously been thought."
  • (18) Although histologic proof of regression is not available, this experience suggests a more favorable prognosis than previously thought possible.
  • (19) He was often detained and occasionally beaten when he returned to Minsk for demonstrations, but “if he thought it was professional duty to uncover something, he did that no matter what threats were made,” Kalinkina said.
  • (20) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.