foil
1. a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal (Freq. 5) - the photographic film was wrapped in foil • Derivationally related forms: foliate • Hypernyms: sheet metal • Hyponyms: aluminum foil, aluminium foil, tin foil, chaff, gold foil, tinfoil 2. anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities - pretty girls like plain friends as foils • Syn: enhancer • Derivationally related forms: enhance (for: enhancer) • Hypernyms: attention 3. 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 • Syn: hydrofoil • Hypernyms: device 4. picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector • Syn: transparency • Hypernyms: picture, image, icon, ikon • Hyponyms: slide, lantern slide, viewgraph, overhead 5. a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button • Topics: fencing • Hypernyms: fencing sword
1. enhance by contrast (Freq. 1) - In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background • Hypernyms: contrast, counterpoint • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s something - Something ----s something 2. hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of (Freq. 1) - What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge - foil your opponent • Syn: thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk • See Also: double cross (for: cross) • Derivationally related forms: frustrative (for: frustrate), frustration (for: frustrate), cross (for: cross), foiling, thwarter (for: thwart), thwarting (for: thwart) • Hypernyms: prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid • Hyponyms: disappoint, let down, dash, short-circuit, ruin • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s something - Something ----s something 3. cover or back with foil - foil mirrors • Hypernyms: cover • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s something - Something ----s something
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