foil
see also: FOIL
Pronunciation
FOIL
Proper noun Verb
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see also: FOIL
Pronunciation
- IPA: /fɔɪl/
foil
- A very thin sheet of metal.
- (uncountable) Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
- A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
- (authorship, figuratively) In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character and who usually acts as an opponent or antagonist.
- (figuratively) Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.
- As she a black silk cap on him began / To set, for foil of his milk-white to serve.
- Hector has a foil to set him off.
- (fencing) A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip
- 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene ii]:
- Blunt as the fencer's foils, which hit, but hurt not.
- Socrates contended with a foil against Demosthenes with a sword.
- A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation. See transparency.
- (heraldiccharge) A stylized flower or leaf.
- A hydrofoil.
- An aerofoil/airfoil.
- (thin aluminium/aluminum) aluminium foil, silver foil, silver paper, tin foil
- French: feuille de métal
- German: Folie
- Italian: lamina, lamella
- Portuguese: folha
- Russian: фольга́
- Spanish: lámina de metal, folio
- French: papier d'aluminium, alu
- German: Aluminiumfolie
- Italian: carta stagnola
- Portuguese: papel-alumínio
- Russian: фольга́
- Spanish: papel de aluminio
- French: faire-valoir
- German: Kontrastfigur
- Italian: spalla
foil (foils, present participle foiling; past and past participle foiled)
- (transitive) To cover or wrap with foil.
foil (foils, present participle foiling; past and past participle foiled)
- To prevent (something) from being accomplished.
- To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.
- And by mortal man at length am foiled.
- her long locks that foil the painter's power
- To blunt; to dull; to spoil.
- to foil the scent in hunting
- (obsolete) To tread underfoot; to trample.
- King Richard […] caused the ensigns of Leopold to be pulled down and foiled under foot.
- Whom he did all to pieces breake and foyle, / In filthy durt, and left so in the loathely soyle.
- (prevent from being accomplished) put the kibosh on, scupper, thwart
- French: déjouer
- German: hintertreiben
- Italian: sventare
- Portuguese: frustrar
- Russian: предотвращать
- Spanish: frustrar
foil (plural foils)
- Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
- Nor e'er was fate so near a foil.
- One of the incorrect answers presented in a multiple-choice test.
foil (plural foils)
- (hunting) The track of an animal.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter IV, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (
please specify ), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292 ↗, book VII: but after giving her a dodge, here's another b— follows me upon the foil.| but after giving her a dodge, here's another b— follows me upon the foil.||tr=|brackets=|subst=|lit=|nocat=1|footer=}}|}}
- (track of an animal) spoor
foil (foils, present participle foiling; past and past participle foiled)
- (mathematics) To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.
foil (foils, present participle foiling; past and past participle foiled)
FOIL
Proper noun Verb
foil (foils, present participle foiling; past and past participle foiled)
- (transitive) To apply the FOIL algorithm to.
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