foil
faw il
- n a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal
the photographic film was wrapped in foil - n anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities
pretty girls like plain friends as foils - n 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 - n picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector
- n a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button
- v enhance by contrast
In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background - v hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
foil your opponent - v cover or back with foil
foil mirrors
- It happened on a drizzly Tuesday in New Jersey, when two Bell Labs scientists demonstrated a tiny contraption they had concocted from some strips of gold foil, a chip of .
- They missed by the thickness of the sheet of foil in which they wrapped their uranium sample; the foil blocked the fission fragments that their instruments would otherwise have .
- During the war, Germany's Aluminum-werke Tscheulin turned out aluminum foil used by the Nazis to confuse Allied radars.