FOIL
\fˈɔ͡ɪl], \fˈɔɪl], \f_ˈɔɪ_l]\
Definitions of FOIL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities; "pretty girls like plain friends as foils"
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a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button
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a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; "the photographic film was wrapped in foil"
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cover or back with foil; "foil mirrors"
By Princeton University
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anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities; "pretty girls like plain friends as foils"
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a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button
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a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; "the photographic film was wrapped in foil"
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cover or back with foil; "foil mirrors"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To tread under foot; to trample.
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To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.
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To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase.
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To defile; to soil.
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Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
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A blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point.
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The track or trail of an animal.
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A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil.
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Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage.
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A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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To tread under foot; to trample.
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To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.
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To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase.
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To defile; to soil.
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Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
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A blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point.
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The track or trail of an animal.
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A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil.
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Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage.
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A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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To baffle or frustrate; defeat.
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A long thin fencing weapon with a button on the end; the trail of hunted game; a thin plate, or sheet of metal; a contrast to set something off to advantage; a small arc in the tracery of a Gothic window, etc.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To defeat; to puzzle; to disappoint:-pr.p. foiling; pa.p. foiled.
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Failure after success seemed certain; defeat.
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A blunt sword used in fencing.
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A leaf or thin plate of metal, as tin-foil; a thin leaf of metal put under precious stones to increase their lustre or change their color; anything that serves to set off something else.
By Daniel Lyons
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Blunt sword used in fencing; thin leaf of metal; metallic leaf set under gems; anything that sets off another.
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Defeat; failure.
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To baffle; disappoint.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To render ineffectual; frustrate; balk.
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Metal in very thin sheets, as on the back of a mirror.
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A leaf - like division in architectural ornamentation.
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A sword - like implement, with a button on its end, used in fencing.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Defeat; the failure of success when on the point of being secured; a blunt sword, or one that has a button at the end covered with leather, used in fencing; the track or trail of game when pursued.
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A leaf or thin plate of metal, as, tin-foil; a small rounded leaf-like form in window tracery; among jewellers, a thin leaf of metal placed under precious stones to increase their brilliancy; anything of another colour, or of different quality, which serves to set off another thing to advantage; a thin coat of tin with quicksilver, laid on the back of a mirror to cause reflection.
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To frustrate; to defeat; to baffle; to blunt; to dull.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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To frustrate; to defeat; to baffle; to render unavailing.
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Defeat; frustration.
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The blunted weapon used in fencing or in learning the sword exercise.
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A thin leaf of metal, as tin-foil, silver-foil, &c.; a piece of gold or silver leaf set behind a gem to give it colour or lustre; anything used for showing another object to advantage; in arch., one of the small arcs in the tracery of Gothic windows, panels, &c.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. Failure of success when on the point of being secured; defeat: frustration; miscarriage;—a blunt sword, or one that has a button at the end—used in fencing.
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n. [Latin] A leaf or thin plate of metal;—a thin leaf of metal placed under precious stones to increase their brilliancy or colour; hence, any thing of another colour, or of different qualities, which serves to adorn, or set off another thing to advantage;—a rounded or loaf-like ornament in windows, niches, &c., called trefoil, quatrefoil, cinquefoil, &c, according to the number of arcs of which it is composed;—a thin coat of tin on the back of a looking-glass.
