| NOUN | artifact | foil | a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal |
|---|---|---|---|
| cognition | foil, enhancer | anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities | |
| artifact | foil, hydrofoil | 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 | |
| artifact | foil, transparency | picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base | |
| artifact | foil | a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button | |
| VERB | stative | foil | enhance by contrast |
| social | foil, thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk | hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | |
| contact | foil | cover or back with foil |
| Sounds | foy'l | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | airfoil ... uncoil: 21 rhymes with oyl... | |
| Meaning | A piece of thin and flexible sheet metal. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "the photographic film was wrapped in foil" | |
| Narrower | aluminum foil, aluminium foil, tin foil | foil made of aluminum |
| chaff | foil in thin strips | |
| gold foil | foil made of gold | |
| tinfoil, tin foil | foil made of tin or an alloy of tin and lead | |
| Broader | sheet metal | sheet of metal formed into a thin plate / plate |
| Spanish | folio, hojuela, lámina de metal | |
| Catalan | full | |
| Verbs | foil | cover or back with foil |
| foliate | coat or back with metal foil | |
| foliate | hammer into thin flat foils | |
| Meaning | Anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "pretty girls like plain friends as foils" | |
| Synonym | enhancer | |
| Broader | attention | A general interest that leads people to want to know more |
| Verbs | foil | enhance by contrast |
| Meaning | 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. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "the fins of a fish act as hydrofoils" | |
| Synonym | hydrofoil | |
| Broader | device | An instrumentality invented for a particular purpose |
| Spanish | hidroala | |
| Meaning | picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | transparency | |
| Narrower | slide, lantern slide | A transparency mounted in a frame |
| viewgraph, overhead | A transparency for use with an overhead projector | |
| Broader | picture, image, icon, ikon | A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface |
| Spanish | transparencia | |
| Catalan | diapositiva, transparència | |
| Meaning | A light slender flexible sword tipped by a button. | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | fencing | The art or sport of fighting with swords (especially the use of foils or epees or sabres to score points under a set of rules) |
| Broader | fencing sword | A sword used in the sport of fencing |
| Spanish | espadín, florete | |
| Catalan | espasí, floret | |
| Meaning | enhance by contrast. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background" | |
| Broader | contrast, counterpoint | To show / show differences when compared |
| Spanish | contrastar | |
| Nouns | foil | anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities |
| Meaning | hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "foil your opponent" | |
| Synonyms | thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk | |
| Narrower | dash | Destroy or break |
| disappoint, let down | fail to meet the hopes or expectations of | |
| ruin | Destroy or cause to fail | |
| short-circuit | hamper the progress of | |
| Broader | prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid | Keep from happening / happening or arising |
| Spanish | contrariar, defraudar, desbaratar, estafar, estropear, frustrar | |
| Catalan | defraudar, desbaratar, estafar, frustrar, trastornar | |
| Nouns | foiling | an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts |
| Meaning | Cover or back with foil. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "foil mirrors" | |
| Broader | cover | Provide with a covering or cause to be covered |
| Nouns | foil | a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal |
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