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Foil Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Foil?
[n] a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button
[n] a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; "the photographic film was wrapped in foil" [n] picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector [n] a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through; "the fins of a fish act as hydrofoils" [n] anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities; "pretty girls like plain friends as foils" [v] cover or back with foil; "foil mirrors" [v] hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent" [v] enhance by contrast; "In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background" Synonyms | Synonyms for Foil: baffle | bilk | cross | enhancer | frustrate | hydrofoil | queer | scotch | spoil | thwart | transparency Related Terms | Find terms related to Foil: actor | actress | antagonist | antipode | antipodes | antipole | antithesis | antonym | background | background detail | bad guy | baffle | bafflement | balk | balking | barnstormer | beat | bilbo | bilk | blast | brave | broadsword | buffalo | cast down | challenge | character | character actor | character man | character woman | check | checkmate | child actor | circumvent | claymore | coat | coating | collop | confound | confounding | confront | confusion | contra | contravene | converse | counter | counteract | counterbalance | countercheck | countermand | counterpoint | counterpoise | counterpole | counterterm | counterwork | covering | cross | curb | cut | cutlass | dash | daunt | deal | deceive | decorative composition | decorative style | defeat | defeat expectation | defy | design | destroy | detail | disappoint | discomfit | discomfiture | disconcert | disconcertion | discountenance | diseur | diseuse | dish | disillusion | disk | disrupt | dissatisfy | dramatizer | elude | embarrass | epee | evade | falchion | faze | feeder | feuille | figure | film | flake | flap | flummox | foiling | fold | foreground detail | form | frustrate | frustration | get around | get round | give the runaround | give the slip | glaive | go one better | hamper | heavy | histrio | histrion | impede | ingenue | inverse | juvenile | knock the chocks | lamella | lamina | laminated glass | laminated wood | lamination | lap | layer | leaf | let down | matinee idol | membrane | mime | mimer | mimic | monologist | motif | mummer | national style | nonplus | nullify | obverse | offset | opposite | opposite number | ornamental motif | outfigure | outflank | outgeneral | outguess | outmaneuver | outplay | outreach | outsmart | outwit | overreach | pane | panel | pantomime | pantomimist | parry | pass the buck | patina | pattern | peel | pellicle | period style | perplex | plait | plank | plate | plating | playactor | player | ply | plywood | protean actor | rapier | rasher | rattle | rebuff | reciter | repeated figure | repulse | restrain | reversal | reverse | Roscius | rout | ruin | saber | sabotage | safety glass | scale | scimitar | scotch | scum | setback | setoff | setting | sheet | skin | slab | slat | slice | soubrette | spike | spoil | stage performer | stage player | stonewall | stooge | straight man | stroller | strolling player | stump | style | table | tablet | tantalize | tease | the contrary | the other side | theatrical | theme | thespian | thwart | thwarting | touch | trouper | tuck | upset | utility man | veneer | victimize | villain | vis-a-vis | wafer See Also | aluminium foil | aluminum foil | attention | chaff | contrast | counterpoint | cover | dash | device | disappoint | double cross | fencing sword | forbid | foreclose | forestall | gold foil | icon | ikon | image | lantern slide | let down | overhead | picture | preclude | prevent | ruin | sheet metal | short-circuit | slide | tin foil | tinfoil | viewgraph Foil In Webster's Dictionary \Foil\ (foil), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Foiled} (foild); p. pr.
& vb. n. {Foiling}.] [F. fouler to tread or trample under
one's feet, to press, oppress. See {Full}, v. t.]
1. To tread under foot; to trample.
King Richard . . . caused the ensigns of Leopold to
be pulled down and foiled under foot. --Knoless.
Whom he did all to pieces breake and foyle, In
filthy durt, and left so in the loathely soyle.
--Spenser.
2. To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to
baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.
And by ? mortal man at length am foiled. --Dryden.
Her long locks that foil the painter's power.
--Byron.
3. To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in
chase. --Addison.
\Foil\, v. t. [See 6th {File}.] To defile; to soil. [Obs.] \Foil\, n. 1. Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage. --Milton. Nor e'er was fate so near a foil. --Dryden. 2. A blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point. Blunt as the fencer's foils, which hit, but hurt not. --Shak. Isocrates contended with a foil against Demosthenes with a word. --Mitford. 3. The track or trail of an animal. {To run a foil},to lead astray; to puzzle; -- alluding to the habits of some animals of running back over the same track to mislead their pursuers. --Brewer. \Foil\, n. [OE. foil leaf, OF. foil, fuil, fueil, foille, fueille, F. feuille, fr. L. folium, pl. folia; akin to Gr. ?, and perh. to E. blade. Cf. {Foliage}, {Folio}.] 1. A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil. 2. (Jewelry) A thin leaf of sheet copper silvered and burnished, and afterwards coated with transparent colors mixed with isinglass; -- employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy to pastes and inferior stones. --Ure. 3. Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage. As she a black silk cap on him began To set, for foil of his milk-white to serve. --Sir P. Sidney. Hector has a foil to set him off. --Broome. 4. A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection. 5. (Arch.) The space between the cusps in Gothic architecture; a rounded or leaflike ornament, in windows, niches, etc. A group of foils is called trefoil, quatrefoil, quinquefoil, etc., according to the number of arcs of which it is composed. {Foil stone}, an imitation of a jewel or precious stone. |
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