Sell also: experience, feeling, find, finger, flavor, flavour, look, sense, smell, spirit, tone
• Noun: an intuitive awareness; example: "he has a feel for animals" or "it's easy when you get the feel of it""
• Noun: the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; examples: "the feel of the city excited him", "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting", "it had the smell of treason"
• Noun: a property perceived by touch
• Noun: manual stimulation of the genital area for sexual pleasure; example: "the girls hated it when he tried to sneak a feel"
• Verb: undergo an emotional sensation; examples: "She felt resentful", "He felt regret"
• Verb: come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds; examples: "I feel that he doesn't like me", "I find him to be obnoxious", "I found the movie rather entertaining"
• Verb: perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles; examples: "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"
• Verb: seem with respect to a given sensation given; examples: "My cold is gone--I feel fine today", "She felt tired after the long hike"
• Verb: have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude; examples: "She felt small and insignificant", "You make me feel naked", "I made the students feel different about themselves"
• Verb: undergo passive experience of:"We felt the effects of inflation"; examples: "her fingers felt their way through the string quartet", "she felt his contempt of her"
• Verb: be felt or perceived in a certain way; examples: "The ground feels shaky", "The sheets feel soft"
• Verb: grope or feel in search of something; example: "He felt for his wallet"
• Verb: examine by touch; examples: "Feel this soft cloth!", "The customer fingered the sweater"
• Verb: examine (a body part) by palpation; examples: "The nurse palpated the patient's stomach", "The runner felt her pulse"
• Verb: find by testing or cautious exploration; example: "He felt his way around the dark room"
• Verb: produce a certain impression; example: "It feels nice to be home again"
• Verb: pass one's hands over the sexual organs of; example: "He felt the girl in the movie theater"