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Noun

foil

Definition: a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; "the photographic film was wrapped in foil"

foil enhancer

Definition: anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities; "pretty girls like plain friends as foils"

hydrofoil foil

Definition: 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"

foil transparency

Definition: picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector

foil

Definition: a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button

Definition: A very thin sheet of metal.

Definition: Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.

Definition: The track of an animal.

Verb

foil

Definition: enhance by contrast; "In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background"

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Definition: hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"

foil

Definition: cover or back with foil; "foil mirrors"

Definition: To apply the FOIL algorithm to.

Definition: To cover or wrap with foil.

Definition: To prevent (something) from being accomplished.

Definition: To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.

Definition: To defile; to soil.

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