Synonyms for foil
fɔɪlfoil

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1. foil1

   To apply the FOIL algorithm to.

   Synonyms:
   spoor, thwart, scupper, put the kibosh on

2. foil1

   Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.

   Synonyms:
   aluminium foil, silver foil, tin foil, silver paper

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1. foil

   To hinder is to keep from action, progress, motion, or growth, or to make such action, progress, motion, or growth later in beginning or completion than it would otherwise have been. An action is prevented by anything that comes in before it to make it impossible; it is hindered by anything that keeps it from either beginning or ending so soon as it otherwise would, or as expected or intended. It is more common, however, to say that the start is delayed, the progress hindered. An action that is hindered does not take place at the appointed or appropriate time; that which is prevented does not take place at all; to hinder a thing long enough may amount to preventing it. A railroad-train may be hindered by a snow-storm from arriving on time; it may by special order be prevented from starting. To retard is simply to make slow by any means whatever. To obstruct is to hinder, or possibly to prevent advance or passage by putting something in the way; to oppose or resist is to hinder, or possibly to prevent by directly contrary or hostile action, resist being the stronger term and having more suggestion of physical force; obstructed roads hinder the march of an enemy, tho there may be no force strong enough to oppose it; one opposes a measure, a motion, an amendment, or the like; it is a criminal offense to resist an officer in the discharge of his duty; the physical system may resist the attack of disease or the action of a remedy. Compare CONQUER; IMPEDIMENT; OBSTRUCT.

   See synonyms for QUICKEN.

   Synonyms:
   baffle, balk, bar, block, check, clog, counteract, delay, embarrass, encumber, frustrate, hamper, hinder, impede, interrupt, obstruct, oppose, prevent, resist, retard, stay, stop, thwart

   Preposition:
   Hinder one in his progress; from acting promptly; by opposition.

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1. foilnoun

   Synonyms:
   set-off, background, contrast, enhancement, setting, elucidation

   Antonyms:
   eclipse, outshining, extinction, overshadowing

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1. foilnoun

   a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal

   "the photographic film was wrapped in foil"

   Synonyms:
   enhancer, hydrofoil, transparency

2. foil, enhancernoun

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

   "pretty girls like plain friends as foils"

   Synonyms:
   enhancer, hydrofoil, transparency

3. hydrofoil, foilnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   enhancer, hydrofoil, hydroplane, transparency

4. foil, transparencynoun

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

   Synonyms:
   enhancer, transparence, hydrofoil, transparentness, transparency

5. foilverb

   a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button

   Synonyms:
   enhancer, hydrofoil, transparency

6. foilverb

   enhance by contrast

   "In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background"

   Synonyms:
   cross, frustrate, spoil, bilk, baffle, thwart, scotch

7. thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilkverb

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

   "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"

   Synonyms:
   vitiate, mar, sweep, dumbfound, plunder, scupper, mystify, cut through, pamper, flub, span, dun, rape, crucify, baby, regulate, bedevil, itch, screw up, ball up, indulge, interbreed, stick, cut across, corrupt, elude, get over, deflower, spoil, puzzle, gravel, violate, beat, mollycoddle, bungle, intersect, bollocks up, fumble, evade, rag, blow, bollix, torment, amaze, bewilder, coddle, cosset, frustrate, peril, scotch, featherbed, crossbreed, cross, get, louse up, perplex, botch up, bodge, traverse, bobble, baffle, muff, bollocks, pass over, pose, fluff, vex, mishandle, endanger, foul up, stupefy, flummox, track, hybridize, cover, despoil, muck up, bumble, mess up, impair, bollix up, botch, thwart, bilk, get across, expose, go bad, hybridise, cocker, nonplus

8. foilverb

   cover or back with foil

   "foil mirrors"

   Synonyms:
   cross, frustrate, spoil, bilk, baffle, thwart, scotch

Matched Categories

1. • Attention
   • Contrast
   • Cover
   • Device
   • Picture
   • Sheet Metal

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1. foilverb

   Synonyms:
   defeat, frustrate, balk, disappoint, baffle

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1. foilverb

   Synonyms:
   baffle, frustrate, thwart, circumvent

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1. List of paraphrases for "foil":

   aluminum, aborting, aluminium, aborts, abort, thwart, swordsman, foiled, frustrate, aborted, foils

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1. FOIL

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How to use foil in a sentence?

1. Amanda Rettke:

   I just grabbed and spoon and rolled up some aluminum foil and thats the first video.

2. Doug Watts:

   Mr. Clarridge has incomplete knowledge of the daily, not weekly briefings, that Dr. Carson receives on important national security matters from former military and state department officials. He is coming to the end of a long career of serving our country, mr. Clarridge's input to Dr. Carson is appreciated but he is clearly not one of Dr. Carson's top advisors. For The New York Times to take advantage of an elderly gentleman and use him as their foil in this story is an affront to good journalistic practices.

3. Donald Trump:

   They used Carter Page as a foil in order to surveil a candidate for the presidency of the United States.

4. Dan Pfeiffer:

   For the first time in my career, making the press a foil is good politics in a Democratic primary, and that is going to have long-standing consequences for the business of journalism.

5. Ben Ainslie:

   We've really gone for it in a major way but I'm absolutely certain that's the right approach, these boats now foil out of the water. There's very little in the water. It's about aerodynamics, it's about control systems, hydraulic systems and the automotive industry obviously lead the way.