different between foil vs moil

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Etymology 1

From Middle English foil, foille, from Old French fueille (“plant leaf”), from Late Latin folia, the plural of folium, mistaken as a singular feminine. Doublet of folio and folium.

Noun

foil (countable and uncountable, plural foils)

1. A very thin sheet of metal.
2. (uncountable) Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.

3. A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
4. (authorship, figuratively) In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character and who usually acts as an opponent or antagonist.
5. (figuratively) Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.

   • As she a black silk cap on him begun / To set, for foil of his milk-white to serve.

   • 1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey

     Hector has also a foil to set regard

6. (fencing) A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip
   • 1784-1810, William Mitford, History of Greece

     Socrates contended with a foil against Demosthenes with a sword.

7. A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation. See transparency.
8. (heraldry) A stylized flower or leaf.
9. A hydrofoil.
10. An aerofoil/airfoil.

Synonyms

• (thin aluminium/aluminum): aluminium foil, silver foil, silver paper, tin foil

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

foil (third-person singular simple present foils, present participle foiling, simple past and past participle foiled)

1. (transitive) To cover or wrap with foil.

Etymology 2

From Middle English foilen (“spoil a scent trail by crossing it”), from Old French fouler (“tread on, trample”), ultimately from Latin full? (“I trample, I full”).

Verb

foil (third-person singular simple present foils, present participle foiling, simple past and past participle foiled)

1. To prevent (something) from being accomplished.

2. To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.

   • And by mortal man at length am foil'd.
3. To blunt; to dull; to spoil.

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4. (obsolete) To tread underfoot; to trample.
   • 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes

     King Richard […] caused the ensigns of Leopold to be pulled down and foiled underfoot.

   • Whom he did all to pieces breake and foyle, / In filthy durt, and left so in the loathely soyle.

Synonyms

• (prevent from being accomplished): put the kibosh on, scupper, thwart

Translations

Noun

foil (plural foils)

1. Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
   • 1685, John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis

     Nor e'er was fate so near a foil.

2. One of the incorrect answers presented in a multiple-choice test.

Etymology 3

From French foulis.

Noun

foil (plural foils)

1. (hunting) The track of an animal.

Synonyms

• (track of an animal): spoor

Translations

Etymology 4

From mnemonic acronym FOIL (“First Outside Inside Last”).

Verb

foil (third-person singular simple present foils, present participle foiling, simple past and past participle foiled)

1. (mathematics) To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.

Translations

Etymology 5

See file.

Verb

foil (third-person singular simple present foils, present participle foiling, simple past and past participle foiled)

1. (obsolete) To defile; to soil.

Anagrams

• Filo, LIFO, filo, lo-fi, lofi

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin folium. Compare fueille, from the plural of folium, folia.

Noun

foil m (oblique plural fouz or foilz, nominative singular fouz or foilz, nominative plural foil)

1. leaf (green appendage of a plant which photosynthesizes)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??l/
• Homophone: mohel
• Rhymes: -??l

Alternative forms

• moile, moyle

Etymology 1

From Middle English mollen (“to soften by wetting”), borrowed from Old French moillier with the same meaning, from Vulgar Latin *molli?, *molliare, from mollis (“soft”).

Verb

moil (third-person singular simple present moils, present participle moiling, simple past and past participle moiled)

1. To toil, to work hard.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, "Of Plantations":

     Moil not too much underground, for the hope of mines is very uncertain, and useth to make the planters lazy in other things..

   • 1693, John Dryden, Juvenal and Persius, "Tenth Satire of Juvenal":

     Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.

   • 1849, Charles Kingsley, "Alton Locke's Song":

     Why for sluggards cark and moil?
2. (intransitive) To churn continually; to swirl.
   • 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Chapter 23:

     A crowd of men and women moiled like nightmare figures in the smoke-green haze.

3. (Britain, transitive) To defile or dirty.

Noun

moil (countable and uncountable, plural moils)

1. Hard work.
   • 1928, Harry Lauder, Roamin' in the Gloamin', Chapter VII:

     I finally decided, my heart was really in my singing rather than in the drab, hardy soul- searing toil and moil of a collier's existence.

2. Confusion, turmoil.
   • 1948, Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, Part I, Chapter 5:

     Croft no longer saw anything clearly; he could not have said at that moment where his hands ended and the machine gun began; he was lost in a vast moil of noise out of which individual screams and shouts etched in his mind for an instant.

3. A spot; a defilement.

Synonyms

• (hard work): labour, labor; toil; work

Translations

Etymology 2

Of unclear origin; possibly from French meule or Hebrew ????? (mohel, “ritual circumciser”), referring to the foreskin-like shape of the unwanted rim.

Noun

moil (plural moils)

1. (glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.
2. (glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed after annealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).
3. (glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.

Synonyms

• (excess glass): overblow (blow molding), scrap

See also

• gather
• mold seam
• pontil mark

Anagrams

• Milo, OIML, limo, milo

Bouyei

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *?mw?j? (“bear”). Cognate with Thai ??? (m?i), Northern Thai ????, Lao ?? (m?), Lü ?? (?ii), Tai Dam ??, Shan ?? (m?i), Ahom ???????? (mii), Zhuang mui, Nong Zhuang mue. Compare Old Chinese ? (OC *me?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo?i??/

Noun

moil

1. bear (animal)

Synonyms

• duezmoil

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

moil m

1. genitive of mol