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foil
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)
- A very thin sheet of metal.
- (uncountable) Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
- A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
- (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.
- (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
- (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.
- 1784-1810, William Mitford, History of Greece
- A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation. See transparency.
- (heraldry) A stylized flower or leaf.
- A hydrofoil.
- 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)
- (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)
- To prevent (something) from being accomplished.
- To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.
- And by mortal man at length am foil'd.
- To blunt; to dull; to spoil.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)
- (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.
- 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes
Synonyms
- (prevent from being accomplished): put the kibosh on, scupper, thwart
Translations
Noun
foil (plural foils)
- Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
- 1685, John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis
- Nor e'er was fate so near a foil.
- 1685, John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis
- One of the incorrect answers presented in a multiple-choice test.
Etymology 3
From French foulis.
Noun
foil (plural foils)
- (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)
- (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)
- (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)
- leaf (green appendage of a plant which photosynthesizes)
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stonker
English
Etymology
From stonk +? -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
stonker (plural stonkers)
- (Britain, slang) Something highly impressive.
- Every record he played was a stonker.
Derived terms
- stonkered
Anagrams
- Ketrons, reknots
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