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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Feel \Feel\ (f[=e]l), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Felt} (f[e^]lt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Feeling}.] [AS. f[=e]lan; akin to OS. gif[=o]lian to perceive, D. voelen to feel, OHG. fuolen, G. f["u]hlen, Icel. f[=a]lma to grope, and prob. to AS. folm palm of the hand, L. palma. Cf. {Fumble}, {Palm}.]
1. 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.
Who feel Those rods of scorpions and those whips of steel. --Creecn.
2. To touch; to handle; to examine by touching; as, feel this piece of silk; hence, to make trial of; to test; often with out.
Come near, . . . that I may feel thee, my son. --Gen. xxvii. 21.
He hath this to feel my affection to your honor. --Shak.
3. To perceive by the mind; to have a sense of; to experience; to be affected by; to be sensible of, or sensitive to; as, to feel pleasure; to feel pain.
Teach me to feel another's woe. --Pope.
Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing. --Eccl. viii. 5.
He best can paint them who shall feel them most. --Pope.
Mankind have felt their strength and made it felt. --Byron.
4. To take internal cognizance of; to be conscious of; to have an inward persuasion of.
For then, and not till then, he felt himself. --Shak.
5. To perceive; to observe. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
{To feel the helm} (Naut.), to obey it.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Feel \Feel\, verb (used without an object)
1. To have perception by the touch, or by contact of anything with the nerves of sensation, especially those upon the surface of the body.
2. To have the sensibilities moved or affected.
[She] feels with the dignity of a Roman matron. --Burke.
And mine as man, who feel for all mankind. --Pope.
3. 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.
I then did feel full sick. --Shak.
4. To know with feeling; to be conscious; hence, to know certainly or without misgiving.
Garlands . . . which I feel I am not worthy yet to wear. --Shak.
5. 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.
Blind men say black feels rough, and white feels smooth. --Dryden.
{To feel after}, to search for; to seek to find; to seek as a person groping in the dark. ''If haply they might feel after him, and find him.'' --Acts xvii. 27.
{To feel of}, to examine by touching.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Feel \Feel\, noun
1. Feeling; perception. [R.]
To intercept and have a more kindly feel of its genial warmth. --Hazlitt.
2. A sensation communicated by touching; impression made upon one who touches or handles; as, this leather has a greasy feel.
The difference between these two tumors will be distinguished by the feel. --S. Sharp.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
feel
noun
1: an intuitive awareness; "he has a feel for animals" or "it's easy when you get the feel of it";
2: the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason" [syn: {spirit}, {tone}, {feeling}, {flavor}, {flavour}, {look}, {smell}]
3: a property perceived by touch [syn: {tactile property}]
4: manual-genital stimulation for sexual pleasure; "the girls hated it when he tried to sneak a feel"
verb
1: undergo an emotional sensation; "She felt resentful"; "He felt regret" [syn: {experience}]
2: come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds; "I feel that he doesn't like me"; "I find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather entertaining" [syn: {find}]
3: perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles; "He felt the wind"; "She felt an object brushing her arm"; "He felt his flesh crawl"; "She felt the heat when she got out of the car" [syn: {sense}]
4: seem with respect to a given sensation given; "My cold is gone--I feel fine today"; "She felt tired after the long hike"
5: have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude; "She felt small and insignificant"; "You make me feel naked"; "I made the students feel different about themselves"
6: undergo passive experience of:"We felt the effects of inflation"; "her fingers felt their way through the string quartet"; "she felt his contempt of her"
7: be felt or perceived in a certain way; "The ground feels shaky"; "The sheets feel soft"
8: grope or feel in search of something; "He felt for his wallet"
9: examine by touch; "Feel this soft cloth!"; "The customer fingered the sweater" [syn: {finger}]
10: examine (a body part) by palpation; "The nurse palpated the patient's stomach"; "The runner felt her pulse" [syn: {palpate}]
11: find by testing or cautious exploration; "He felt his way around the dark room"
12: produce a certain impression; "It feels nice to be home again"
13: pass one's hands over the sexual organs of; "He felt the girl in the movie theater" [also: {felt}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
232 Moby Thesaurus words for "feel": abide, air, ambience, appear, appear like, appreciation, appreciation of differences, appreciativeness, apprehend, art, artistic judgment, assume, atmosphere, aura, be, be afraid, be aware of, be conscious of, be exposed to, be sensible of, be sorry for, be subjected to, bear, believe, bleed for, breath, brook, brush, caress, climate, come in contact, conceive, conclude, conjecture, connoisseurship, consider, contact, crave, credit, critical niceness, criticalness, cutaneous sense, daresay, deduce, deem, delicacy, desire, determine, discern, discriminating taste, discriminatingness, discrimination, discriminativeness, divine, dream, empathize with, encounter, endure, esteem, expect, experience, explore, fancy, fastidiousness, feel deeply, feel for, feel intuitively, feel of, feeling, fine palate, finesse, finger, fingertip caress, finish, flick, fondle, fumble, gather, glance, go through, grabble, grain, grant, granular texture, graze, grope, guess, hand-mindedness, handle, hang, have, have a feeling, have a hunch, have a sensation, have the impression, hear, hold, imagine, indentation, infer, intuit, judge, judiciousness, just know, kiss, knack, know, knub, labor under, lambency, lap, let, let be, lick, light touch, look, look like, making distinctions, manipulate, meet, meet up with, meet with, milieu, mood, nap, niceness of distinction, nicety, note, notice, nub, observe, opine, overtone, palate, palm, palpate, pass through, paw, pay, perceive, pet, pile, pit, pity, ply, pock, poke at, prefer, prefigure, presume, presuppose, presurmise, prod, protuberance, provisionally accept, quality, quick look, receive an impression, reckon, refined discrimination, refined palate, refinement, repute, respond, respond to stimuli, rub, run up against, savor, say, see, seem, seem like, seem to be, selectiveness, semblance, sensation, sense, sense of touch, sensibility, sensitivity, shag, smell, sound, sound like, spend, spirit, stand, stand under, stroke, structure, subtlety, suffer, suppose, surface, surface texture, surmise, suspect, sustain, sympathize with, tact, tactfulness, tactile sense, tactility, taction, take, take for, take for granted, take it, take to be, tap, taste, tentative examination, tentative poke, texture, think, thumb, tolerate, tone, touch, trick, twiddle, undergo, understand, undertone, wale, want, way, weave, whisper, wield, withstand, woof
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Feel (Free and Eventually Eulisp) An initial implementation of an {EuLisp} {interpreter} by Pete Broadbery . Version 0.75 features an integrated {object} system, {modules}, {parallelism}, interfaces to {PVM} library, {TCP/IP} {socket}s, {future}s, {Linda} and {CSP}. Portable to most {Unix} systems. Can use {shared memory} and {thread}s if available. {(ftp://ftp.bath.ac.uk/pub/eulisp/)}. (1992-09-14)
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