Feel

Definition: Feel

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".

3. A property perceived by touch.

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".

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".

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".

4. Seem with respect to the sensation given; of physical states, indicating as health, etc.: "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".

10. : examine by palpation for medical purposes; as of body parts; "The nurse palpated the patient's stomach"; "The runner felt her pulse".

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 (slang); "He felt the girl in the movie theater".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "feel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Feel \Feel\, noun. 1. Feeling; perception. [Rare]. (references)

Computing

Aerospace

Industry

Medicine

Metallurgy

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Feel

Touch

Verb: touch, feel, handle, finger, thumb, paw, fumble, grope, grabble; twiddle, tweedle; pass the fingers over, run the fingers over; manipulate, wield; throw out a feeler.

Crosswords: Feel

Pidgin English (to feel).

How'd you feel if someone broke your dinosaur (On the Town; writing credit: Adolph Green and Betty Comden)

But it helps me remember and I need to remember Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in. (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

Outside things may be tragic, but in here we feel its magic (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce)

Divorced me. It makes a man feel he's not wanted (His Girl Friday; writing credit: Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur)

If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, it makes us feel as if our hard work ain't been in vain for nothing (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

Feel for you, baby (How Much I Feel; performing artist: Ambrosia)

Well i feel like makin (Feel Like Making Love; performing artist: Bad Company)

I'm givin him somethin he can feel (Giving Him Something He Can Feel; performing artist: En Vogue)

And I feel nice, like sugar and spice ("I Got You (I Feel Good)"; performing artist: James Brown)

Do you know how you feel (How Do You Feel; performing artist: Jefferson Airplane)

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap. (references; author: Bob Hope)

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again. (references; author: unknown)

Mississippi: Come And Feel Better About Your Own State (references; author: unknown)

A perfect guest is one who makes his host feel at home. (references; author: unknown)

I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe. (references; author: unknown)

Feel (1972)

I Feel It Coming (1971)

Feel the Width Never Mind the Quality (1968)

I Feel a Song Coming On (1965)

As Young as You Feel (1951)

How Do You Feel (performing artist: Jefferson Airplane)

Feel So Fine (performing artist: Johnny Preston)

The Way I Feel About You (performing artist: Karyn White)

You Make Me Feel Like Dancing (performing artist: Leo Sayer)

The Way You Make Me Feel (performing artist: Michael Jackson)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• I Feel Good (Holdings) Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health-in Just Weeks! (reference)

• Santa's Beard Is Soft and Warm: Touch and Feel (reference)

• Barefoot Contessa Family Style: Easy Ideas and Recipes That Make Everyone Feel Like Family (reference)

• Eat This Too: It'll Also Make You Feel Better (reference)

• Letters to Michael: How Women in the '70s Really Feel, As Revealed in Their Letters to the Man Who Advertised for a Wife (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Beenie Man: Feel it Boy [DVD Single] (reference)

• Feel (reference)

• Joy Enriquez - Tell Me How You Feel (DVD Single) (reference)

• As Young As You Feel (reference)

• Beavis and Butt-Head: Feel Our Pain (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Feel Free (reference)

• Feel It (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Revlon RV487 1875-Watt New Feel Hair Dryer (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

South Pole Station on a day without a horizon, near "white out" conditions. Flags mark path. One would literally feel like walking in a bowl of milk. There was no surface definition and one had to walk with bent knees because impossible to determine if surface was uneven. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Perspective view from southwest. Photograph by Jet Lowe, summer 1990. (Reproduction Number: HAER ORE,6-NOBE,1-10) At 5,305 feet in length, the Coos Bay Bridge is the longest of the five Public Works Administration bridges built along the Oregon Coastal Highway during the Great Depression. Made of steel, the bridge incorporates many complex structural systems and technological innovations including cantilevers, trusses, and early examples of concrete arches. Motorists feel as though they are driving under a series of arches when they travel over the bridge. Credit: Library of Congress.

"I've stopped smoking and cut down on alcohol - and feel so good!" / WHO/French National Committee Against Smoking photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

"T'were Vain To Tell Thee All I Feel." / Published by Currier & Ives. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Her husband must feel pretty cheap, I should think, tagging along after her. Credit: Library of Congress.

Women of the highest position feel deeply the beauty of the Bolshevik doctrine. Credit: Library of Congress.

I know just how you feel!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Maybe we'd all feel better. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ho for Kansas! Brethren, Friends, & Fellow Citizens: I feel thankful to inform you that the real estate and Homestead Association, will leave here the 15th of April, 1878, In pursuit of Homes in the Southwestern Lands of America... Credit: Library of Congress.

Feel crowded? : consider zero population growth. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Nor let any one think, this lays a perpetual foundation for disorder; for this operates not, till the inconveniency is so great, that the majority feel it, and are weary of it, and find a necessity to have it amended. (Second Treatise of Government)

So far I feel that we are in full agreement. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I am sure it was a source of high entertainment to you, to feel that you were taking us all in.

We must feel our way.

Scrooge was not much in the habit of cracking jokes, nor did he feel, in his heart, by any means waggish then

Yeah, well, maybe I don't feel so keen on doing it all of a sudden

I shall feel myself shudder, suddenly and unawares

Suddenly you feel that you are seized

To remember that and the white look of the lavatory made him feel cold and then hot.

How dost thou feel thyself now

He could feel it pressing and struggling and fussing under his arm.

It was worth the while, if only to feel the wind blow on your cheek freely, and see the waves run, and remember the life of mariners

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Feel sick to your stomach. (references)

Breathe deeply and slowly when you feel nauseated. (references)

Others may feel high (intoxicated and/or euphoric). (references)

Business

One way to get a feel for the size of this market is to look at manufacturing activities. (references)

Saudis feel this information keeps them abreast of the latest developments in the IT field. (references)

After all, if there is a Thai partner, staff can feel comfortable they will be treated fairly. (references)

Children

United Kingdom

In order to reduce the intimidation that young suspects may feel when tried in an adult court there is a ban on robes and wigs and uniformed security officers in any courtroom where defendants under age 18 are tried on serious criminal charges. (references)

Iceland

In an effort to improve the rate of prosecution of child sexual abuse and lessen the trauma to the child, the Government established the Children's Assessment Center in 1998. The objective of the center is to create a safe and secure environment where child victims feel more comfortable talking about what happened to them and are not subjected to multiple interviews. (references)

Civil Liberties

Mozambique

The UNHCR occasionally makes alternative shelter available to those who feel threatened. (references)

Economic History

Moldova

Moldovans feel no cold war era prejudices toward Americans. (references)

Egypt

What is certain is that decision-makers must feel comfortable with a supplier. (references)

Morocco

Many economists feel the Dirham remains overvalued against European currencies. (references)

Human Rights

Guatemala

However, self-exile is a very common response by citizens who feel threatened or intimidated. (references)

Morocco

Moroccan human rights organizations favored these changes and helped argue for them, although some groups do not feel the changes went far enough. (references)

Indigenous People

Australia

Howard proposed that Parliament express "its deep and sincere regret" that Aboriginals had "suffered injustices under the practices of past generations, and for the hurt and trauma that many indigenous people continue to feel." However, both Aboriginal and opposition leaders stated that only a full apology would be sufficient. (references)

Minorities

Tanzania

There were signs of increasing tension between secular and fundamentalist Muslims, as the latter feel that the former have joined with the Government for monetary and other benefits. (references)

Political Economy

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

Local cable TV operators feel that they will have to increase rates or eliminate some channels to comply with the new law. (references)

BANGLADESH

Their militant unions have succeeded in setting relatively high wages which their private sector counterparts often feel compelled to meet out of fear of union action. (references)

Trade

Russia

The Russian government and people feel a need for government protection of public and consumer safety. (references)

Travel

Turkey

The Turkish people feel close to their traditions and culture. (references)

Czech Rep

Americans may feel that Czech business people are not warm and friendly. (references)

Women

Kazakhstan

Of those seven cases, five either were not accepted for trial because the prosecutors did not feel there was sufficient evidence, or were lost in court; two cases remained pending at year's end. (references)

Worker Rights

China

Some reports indicate that government workers now feel less pressure to restrict their personal expressions of religious belief. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "feel": by the feel ♦ do you feel better? ♦ feel a delicacy ♦ feel a pang ♦ feel a repugnance to ♦ feel a sense of bereavement ♦ feel a tug ♦ feel abashed ♦ feel about ♦ feel afraid to speak ♦ feel after ♦ feel again ♦ feel an interest in ♦ feel an urge to do smth. ♦ feel another person ♦ feel around ♦ feel ashamed ♦ feel ashamed for smb. ♦ feel ashamed of smth. ♦ feel assured ♦ feel at ease ♦ feel at home ♦ feel attracted to ♦ feel bad ♦ feel bad about ♦ feel badly about ♦ feel below par ♦ feel benumbed ♦ feel betrayed ♦ feel better ♦ feel blue ♦ feel bored ♦ feel bound to ♦ feel certain ♦ feel cheap ♦ feel chilly ♦ feel chippy ♦ feel cold ♦ feel cold for a while ♦ feel confident ♦ feel constrained ♦ feel constrained to do smth. ♦ feel cool ♦ feel crummy ♦ feel deeply ashamed ♦ feel deeply disappointed ♦ feel disgust for smth. ♦ feel disgusted ♦ feel dizzy ♦ feel done in ♦ feel doubtful about smth. ♦ feel down ♦ feel down in spirits ♦ feel drawn to smb. ♦ feel dull ♦ feel elated ♦ feel embarrassed ♦ feel empty ♦ feel enthusiastic ♦ feel equal ♦ feel faint ♦ feel faint with hunger ♦ feel fine ♦ feel for ♦ feel for him ♦ feel for oneself ♦ feel for smb. ♦ feel free ♦ feel free to do smth. ♦ feel funny ♦ feel giddy ♦ feel glum ♦ feel good ♦ feel great ♦ feel greatly bucked ♦ feel grim ♦ feel groggy ♦ feel guilty ♦ feel helpless ♦ feel hollow ♦ feel hope ♦ feel humiliated ♦ feel hungry ♦ feel hurt ♦ feel ill ♦ feel ill at ease ♦ feel in one's bones ♦ feel in one's pocket ♦ feel inclined to do smth. ♦ feel insignificant ♦ feel insulted ♦ feel like ♦ feel like a fish out of water ♦ feel like a giant refreshed ♦ feel like a wet rag ♦ feel like doing smth. ♦ feel like it ♦ feel low ♦ feel miles better ♦ feel miserable ♦ feel mortified. Additional references.

Beginning with "feel": feel-good, feel-goodism, feel-it-in-the-bone, feel-oriented, feel-the-response.

Ending with "feel": look-and-feel.

Containing "feel": christ-this-is-so-delicious-it-seems-a-shame-to-go-on-about-it-but-i-feel-it-is-my-duty, q-feel system.

Afrikaans

voel (sense). (various references)

Albanian

vjen (comes, draw in, follow, leap, reek, spring), prek (adjoin, affect, attack, brush, graze, handle, hit, hurt, move, palpate, penetrate, reach, rub, touch, touch on, touch upon), parandiej (forebode, presage), ndihem, ndiej (experience, perceive), mendoj (believe, conceive, consider, contemplate, deem, deliberate, dream up, elaborate, expect, fancy, figure, guess, hold, imagine, judge, mean, opine, ponder, rate, reason, reckon for, reflect, regard, repute, say, study, suppose, take, think, Trow, try, understand, ween), mas me të prekur, më vjen keq (be sorry, it is a pity, regret, repent, rue, spare, sympathize, take pity), kërkoj (aim, apply, arrogate, ask, ask for, assert, beg, call for, charge, claim, comb, cost, crave, cry for, demand, dig, dig for, exact, fish for, fossick, go after, inquire, look, look for, looking for, necessitate, nose, nose out, petition, pick, postulate, quest, ransack, request, rummage, search, search after, search out, seek, seek after, solicit, solicit for, want), dukem (appear, appear to be, arise, come into view, emerge, manifest, seem, show, show oneself, show up, sound, stand out). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مس (befall, contact, finger, graze, handle, impinge, palpate, tip, touch, twiddle), ‏وعى (apprehend, awake, grasp, perceive, realize), ‏حس (feeling, sensation), ‏تلمس (fumble, grope), ‏صفة خاصة (quality), ‏جس (necking, palpate, palpation, paw, pet, ply, probe, probing, touch), ‏إحساس (emotion, feeling, sensation, sense, sensibility), ‏أمن (assure, be safe, believe, indemnify, insure, peace, safeness, safety, security, trustee, underwrite), ‏أحس (sense), ‏أدرك (apprehend, awake, comprehend, follow, get at, observe, overhaul, overtake, penetrate, perceive, pierce, realize, recognize, rejoin, see, see daylight, sense, sober up, take, twig, understand), ‏شم (acumen, nose, scent, smell, sniff, snort, snuff), ‏شعور (affect, aura, cheer, consciousness, feeling, hunch, pulse, sensation), ‏شعر (felt, furriness, hair, notify, poetry, rhyme, sense, song, verse, warn), ‏بدا عند اللمس. (various references)

Asturian

sentir (to feel). (various references)

Aymara

ch'alljhtaña (to feel). (various references)

Bemba

ukupampanta (to feel). (various references)

Blackfoot

i'taki (to feel). (various references)

Bulgarian 

опипване, пипам (filch, handle, interfere, meddle, paw, touch, trifle), пипане (touching), пипвам (catch, cop, grab, nab, nail, nip, pinch, pull, rap, snag, touch), питая (bear, nourish, nurse), почувствувам (have the feeling), почувствувам се, предчувствувам (anticipate, divine, forebode, presage, prevision, sense), изпитвам (assay, condition, essay, examine, experience, proof, prove, question, quiz, sample, see, test, try, undergo), опипвам (feel about, finger, fumble, grope, handle), съм на пипане, осезавам, чувство (affect, emotion, feeling, sensation, sense, sentiment), чувствувам (entertain, sense), смятам (adjudge, calculate, cipher, consider, count, deem, figure, find, guess, judge, number, opine, reckon, regard, see, set down, take, ween, work), усет (eye, feeling, flair, good sense, nose, prehension, sense, sensibility), усещам (observe, perceive, scent, sense), усещане (feeling, perception, prehension, sensation, sense, sensibility), напипвам. (various references)

Cebuano

mobati (to feel). (various references)

Chamorro

para ma siente (to feel). (various references)

Chinese 

感受 (experience). (various references)

Cornish

tava (to feel). (various references)

Czech

ucítit (smell, wind), sáhnout na, ovzduší (air, atmosphere, environment, ozone), omak, ohmatat (finger), hmat (feeling, grasp, touch), dotek (Pat, touch), domnívat se (assume, conjecture, expect, guess, hold, judge, opine, presume, suppose, think), cítit se (feel about), cítit (sense, smell, taste), atmosféra (ambience, atmosphere). (various references)

Danish

følelse (emotion, feeling, sensation, sense). (various references)

Dutch

voelen (grope, sense), tasten (grope), bevoelen (grope), betasten (grope), aanvoelen (sense). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

sintina (to feel). (various references)

Esperanto

fartas, sento (feeling, sensation), senti sin, senti (sense), palpi serĉe (grope), palpi (grope). (various references)

Estonian

tundub (to feel). (various references)

Faeroese

føla (sense), trilva (grope), nerta (grope, touch), kensla (feeling, sensation, sense, sentiment), kenna (be acquainted with, go through, know, live to see, sense, teach), káva (grope). (various references)

Farsi 

محسوس شدن , لمس کردن (Palpate, Stroke, Take, Touch), احساس کردن (Appreciate, Sense). (various references)

Finnish

tuntea (be acquainted, be acquainted with, know, recognize, sense). (various references)

French

palper, toucher (fell), tâter, sentir (have feeling), sentiment (feeling), ressentir. (various references)

Frisian

fielen (feeling, sensation, sense), fiele (sense, to feel), gefoel (feeling, sensation, sense). (various references)

German

fühlen (grope, sense, to feel, to sense), betasten (grope, palpate, touch, touch up), tasten (buttons, fumble, grope, ivory, key, keys, press, punch, scrabble), griff (butt, chord, clasp, clutch, fingering, grab, grasp, grasping, grip, gripe, haft, handle, head, hilt, hold, knob, snatch, taking hold, talon, tongs, touching), gefühl (delicateness, emotion, feeling, hunch, impression, sensation, sense, sentiment, soul, touch), empfinden (feeling, perceive, sense, to sense), befühlen (finger, grope, run one's hands over). (various references)

Greek 

νιώθω, αισθάνομαι (sense), αφή (feeling, touch). (various references)

Guarani

revy'a (you feel happy), avy'a (I feel happy), añembyasyete (I feel very sorry). (various references)

Hebrew 

משוש (feeling, palpation, touch, touching), מגע (connection, contact, intercourse, liaison, relation, touch), למוש (depart, touch), למשמש (examine, finger, handle, manipulate, rummage, touch), למשש (fumble, grope, touch, twiddle), לחוש (be anxious, perceive, sense, worry), להרגיש (cause storm, enrage, excite, sense), לרחוש (express, whisper), תחושה (feeling, hunch, perception, sensation, sense), הרגיש, הרגשה (feeling, perception, sentiment). (various references)

Hungarian

érez (fare, felt, sense, to feel, to nauseate). (various references)

Icelandic

líður. (various references)

Indonesian

rasa (favor), merasakan (sensibility). (various references)

Inuktitut

ikpigusukluni (to feel). (various references)

Irish

ceint (cent, sensation), airíonn. (various references)

Italian

sentirsi (be), toccare (affect, be turn, be up to, concern, fall, finger, handle, happen, have, hurt, move, reach, to touch, touch, touch each other, touch in), tatto (discretion, feeling, measure, tact, time, touch), tastare (finger, fingering, grope, sound out, spy out), percepire (cash, collect, detect, notice, observe, perceive, receive, sense). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

触り (impression, most impressive passage, punch line, touch), がり勉 (a drudge, a grind, creak, squeak), 手触り (touch). (various references)

Japanese Katakana