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Noun foil has 5 senses
- foil - a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; "the photographic film was wrapped in foil"
--1 is a kind of sheet metal
--1 has particulars:
- foil, enhancer - anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities; "pretty girls like plain friends as foils"
--2 is a kind of attention
- hydrofoil, foil - 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"
--3 is a kind of device
- foil, transparency - picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector
--4 is a kind of picture, image, icon, ikon
--4 has particulars: slide, lantern slide; viewgraph, overhead
- foil - a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button
--5 is a kind of fencing sword
Verb foil has 3 senses
- foil - enhance by contrast; "In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background"
--1 is one way to contrast, counterpoint
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- thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk - hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
--2 is one way to prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid
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- foil - cover or back with foil; "foil mirrors"
--3 is one way to cover
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