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Feel out   /fil aʊt/   Listen
Feel out

verb
1.
Try to learn someone's opinions and intentions.  Synonyms: check out, sound out.






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"Feel out" Quotes from Famous Books



... that first day, that first day of my real life. Tell Sebastiano he must play the 'Pastorale' to welcome me. And you—but I seem to feel your dear welcome here, to feel your hands holding mine, to see your eyes looking at me like Sicily. Isn't it strange? I feel out here in Africa as if you were Sicily. But you are, indeed, for me. You are Sicily, you are the sun, you are everything that means joy to me, that means music, that means hope and peace. Buon riposo, my dearest one. Can you feel—can you—how ...
— The Call of the Blood • Robert Smythe Hichens

... are formed by pressing the paper, while quite moist, upon rather large type, which raises a ridge in the line of every letter, and which remains prominent after the paper is dry. In order to read, the pupil has to feel out these ridges. A circular ridge on the paper he is told is O; a perpendicular one, I; a crooked one, S; &c. They read music and arithmetic printed in a similar manner. A few months of practice, in this way, will enable an ingenious youth to read ...
— The Young Mother - Management of Children in Regard to Health • William A. Alcott

... distances to see a white patient—and one doesn't count the rest. And—I bought this practice, knowing it to be one that would not make great demands on my time, so that I could devote myself a good deal to certain scientific pursuits in which I am deeply interested. No!—I don't feel out of the world, Miss Raven, ...
— Ravensdene Court • J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher



Words linked to "Feel out" :   query, question



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