DICTOMETER

FOIL

(foil, florete, frustrar, lámina, florett, folie, forhindre, forpurre)

1. Synonyms:
   • Foil
   Definitions:
   • a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal
   Examples:
   • The photographic film was wrapped in foil
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Foil
   • Enhancer
   Definitions:
   • anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities
   Examples:
   • Pretty girls like plain friends as foils
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Hydrofoil
   • Foil
   Definitions:
   • 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
   Examples:
   • The fins of a fish act as hydrofoils
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Foil
   • Transparency
   Definitions:
   • picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base
   • viewed with a projector
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Foil
   Definitions:
   • a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Foil
   Definitions:
   • enhance by contrast
   Examples:
   • In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Thwart
   • Queer
   • Spoil
   • Scotch
   • Foil
   • Cross
   • Frustrate
   • Baffle
   • Bilk
   Definitions:
   • hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
   Examples:
   • What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge
   • Foil your opponent
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Foil
   Definitions:
   • cover or back with foil
   Examples:
   • Foil mirrors