foil
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noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)A very thin sheet of metal.
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)(chiefly Euro English) A very thin sheet of plastic.
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(uncountable)(chiefly uncountable) Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
wrap the sandwich up in foil
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(countable, uncountable)A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
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(countable, figuratively, uncountable)(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, but can also serve as the sidekick of the protagonist.
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(countable, figuratively, uncountable)Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.
1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey Hector has also a foil to set regard
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(countable, uncountable)(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.
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(countable, uncountable)A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation. See transparency.
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(countable, uncountable)A premium trading card with a glossy finish.
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(countable, uncountable)(heraldry) A stylized flower or leaf.
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(abbreviation, alt of, clipping, countable, uncountable)(hydrodynamics, nautical) Clipping of hydrofoil.
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(abbreviation, alt of, clipping, countable, uncountable)(aerodynamics, aviation) Clipping of aerofoil/airfoil.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To cover or wrap with foil.
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(abbreviation, alt of, clipping)(nautical) Clipping of hydrofoil.
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To prevent (something) from being accomplished.
They foiled my plans.
Đồng nghĩa: put the kibosh on, scupper, thwart
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To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.
I was foiled by my superior
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To blunt; to dull; to spoil.
Đồng nghĩa: mar, mess up, vitiate, ball up, blight, bumble, botch, bugger up, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crab, deprave, disrupt, disturb, foil, fuck up, jack up, mar, mess up, mishandle, mommick, pollute, put a crimp in, queer, ruin, screw up, soil, sour, spoil, stain, undo, upset, turn upside down, upset the applecart, vitiate
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(obsolete)To tread underfoot; to trample.
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(mathematics) To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.
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(obsolete)To defile; to soil.
Đồng nghĩa: befile, stain, sully, assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, befilth, befoul, begrime, beray, beshit, besmear, besmirch, besully, bewray, blacken, blot, blur, clat, contaminate, darken, defile, dirten, dirty, elt, file, foil, foul, gunk, gunk up, inquinate, scunge, sling mud, slotter, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, soss, sowl, spot, stain, sullow, sully, tarnish, uggle
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ine-pro From Middle English foyle, from Middle French fueille, from Old French fueille (plant leaf), from folia, the plural of folium, mistaken as a singular feminine.