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foil   (TTS Sound)

The noun foil has 5 senses

• foil -- (a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; "the photographic film was wrapped in foil")


• foil, enhancer -- (anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities; "pretty girls like plain friends as foils")


• 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")


• foil, transparency -- (picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector)


• foil -- (a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button)

The verb foil has 3 senses

• foil -- (enhance by contrast; "In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background")


• 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")


• foil -- (cover or back with foil; "foil mirrors")