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Feel can be a noun or a verb.
feel used as a noun:
- A quality of an object experienced by touch.
"Bark has a rough feel." - A vague mental impression.
"You should get a feel of the area before moving in." - An act of fondling.
"She gave me a quick feel to show that she loves me." - A vague understanding
"I'm getting a feel for what you mean." - An intuitive ability
"She has a feel for music."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
feel used as a verb:
- To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch.
"You can feel a heartbeat if you put your fingers on your breast." - To experience an emotion or other mental state about.
"I can feel the sadness in his poems." - To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.
"I felt my way through the darkened room." - To be or become aware of.
- To experience the consequences of.
"Feel my wrath!" - To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.
"I feel that we need to try harder." - To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.
- To search by sense of touch.
"He felt for the light switch in the dark." - To experience and emotion or other mental state.
"He obviously feels strongly about it." - To seem.
"It looks like wood, but it feels more like plastic." - To sympathise.
"I feel for you and your plight"
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is feel?
- Noun usage: Bark has a rough feel.
- Noun usage: You should get a feel of the area before moving in.
- Noun usage: She gave me a quick feel to show that she loves me.
- Noun usage: I'm getting a feel for what you mean.
- Noun usage: She has a feel for music.
- Verb usage: You can feel a heartbeat if you put your fingers on your breast.
- Verb usage: I can feel the sadness in his poems.
- Verb usage: I felt my way through the darkened room.
- Verb usage: I felt my way cautiously through the dangerous business maneuver.
- Verb usage: Feel my wrath!
- Verb usage: I feel that we need to try harder.
- Verb usage: He felt for the light switch in the dark.
- Verb usage: He obviously feels strongly about it.
- Verb usage: It looks like wood, but it feels more like plastic.
- Verb usage: I feel for you and your plight
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of feel are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of feel, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).