Look up: Foil

1. foil
   prevent from carrying out contrast 
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2. Foil
   A metallic or pigmented coating on plastic sheets or rolls used in foil stamping and foil embossing.
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3. Foil
   Lifting surface designed to support all or part of the weight of a waterborne craft at an appropriate forward speed.
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4. Foil
   See 'Ribbon'.
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5. Foil
   paper backed with metal foil.
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6. foil
   [n] - anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing`s good qualities 2. [n] - picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base 3. [n] - a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal 4. [n] - a light slender flexible sword tipped by a bu...
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7. Foil
   A cloth or plastic tape coated with several layers of material, on of which is inklike, that produces the visible marks on a substrate. Used on formed font impact, dot matrix, thermal transfer and hot stamp printers. Also called a ribbon
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8. Foil
   An attachment on the forestay, comprising a groove into which the luff of the jib can be fed.
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9. Foil
   a fencing weapon with rectangular cross-section blade and a small bell guard; any sword that has been buttoned to render it less dangerous for practice
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10. Foil
    A very thin metal sheet that can be used as a face stock material in label production.
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11. foil
    See conductive foil.
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12. Foil
    leaf shape formed by cusping of a circle in tracery.
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13. Foil
    A lobe defined by the curve of the cusping in an opening or panel, trefoil (three cusps), quatrefoil (four cusps), cinquefoil, multifoil. See also cusp.
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14. Foil
    One of the lobes in a Gothic window or blind opening, as in trefoil (three lobes), quatrefoil (four lobes), or cinquefoil (five lobes). Related Words: Blind (of arcades etc) ; Gothic (revival)
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15. Foil
    Foil (foil) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Foiled (foild); present participle & verbal noun Foiling .] [ French fouler to tread or trample under one's feet, to press, ...
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16. Foil
    Foil transitive verb [ See 6th File .] To defile; to soil. [ Obsolete]
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17. Foil
    Foil noun 1. Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage. Milton. « Nor e'er was fate so near a foil .» Dryden. 2. A blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a...
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18. Foil
    Foil noun [ Middle English foil leaf, Old French foil , fuil , fueil , foille , fueille , French feuille , from Latin folium , plural folia ; akin to Greek ... , and perhaps to English <...
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19. foil
    1. A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil. ... 2. A thin leaf of sheet copper silvered and burnished, and afterwards coated with transparent colours mixed with isinglass; employed by jewelers to give colour or brilliancy to pastes and inferior stones. ... 3. Anything...
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20. foil
    enhancer noun anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing`s good qualities; `pretty girls like plain friends as foils`
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21. foil
    noun a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button
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22. foil
    verb cover or back with foil; `foil mirrors`
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23. foil
    verb enhance by contrast; `In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background`
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24. Foil
    • (n.) Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage. • (n.) A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil. • (v. t.) To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to fr...
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25. foil
    solid metal that has been reduced to a leaflike thinness by mechanical beating or rolling. Jewellers have long used a thin foil of copper-zinc alloy ...
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