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Defenition of the word foil

    • Defenition of the word foil

      • A piece of thin and flexible sheet metal.
      • 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.
      • Anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities.
      • A light slender flexible sword tipped by a button.
      • A picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector.
      • To cover or back with foil.
      • To enhance by contrast.
      • To hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of.
      • a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button
      • a very thin and flexible sheet of metal; "the photographic film was wrapped in foil"
      • cover with foil
      • enhance by contrast; "In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background"
      • a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector
      • to hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of: "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge."
      • a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; "the photographic film was wrapped in foil"
      • picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector
      • 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"
      • anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing''s good qualities; "pretty girls like plain friends as foils"
      • cover or back with foil; "foil mirrors"
      • hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth''s amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
      • a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal
      • 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
      • anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities
      • cover or back with foil
      • hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
      • enhance by contrast

    Synonyms for the word foil

      • baffle
      • bilk
      • cross
      • frustrate
      • halt
      • halt in its tracks
      • outwit
      • queer
      • scotch
      • spoil
      • throw a monkey wrench in the works
      • thwart
      • transparency

    Similar words in the foil

      • double cross
      • foil
      • foiled
      • foiling
      • foils

    Hyponyms for the word foil

      • aluminium foil
      • aluminum foil
      • chaff
      • dash
      • disappoint
      • gold foil
      • lantern slide
      • let down
      • overhead
      • ruin
      • short-circuit
      • slide
      • tin foil
      • tinfoil
      • viewgraph

    Hypernyms for the word foil

      • attention
      • contrast
      • counterpoint
      • cover
      • device
      • fencing sword
      • forbid
      • foreclose
      • forestall
      • icon
      • ikon
      • image
      • picture
      • preclude
      • prevent
      • sheet metal

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