Finnish Meaning of foil

Folio

Other Finnish words related to Folio

Definitions and Meaning of foil in English

Wordnet

foil (n)

a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal

anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities

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

picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector

a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button

Wordnet

foil (v)

enhance by contrast

hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of

cover or back with foil

Webster

foil (v. t.)

To tread under foot; to trample.

To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.

To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase.

To defile; to soil.

Webster

foil (n.)

Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.

A blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point.

The track or trail of an animal.

A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil.

A thin leaf of sheet copper silvered and burnished, and afterwards coated with transparent colors mixed with isinglass; -- employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy to pastes and inferior stones.

Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage.

A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection.

The space between the cusps in Gothic architecture; a rounded or leaflike ornament, in windows, niches, etc. A group of foils is called trefoil, quatrefoil, quinquefoil, etc., according to the number of arcs of which it is composed.

FAQs About the word foil

Folio

a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal, anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities, a device consisting of a flat or

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foie gras => Foie gras, foible => heikkous, fohn => föhni, foh => Foh, fogyism => taantumuksellisuus,