English Explanatory Dictionary

FOIL

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. An acronym for the algorithm for multiplying two binomials.
verb
  1. To apply the FOIL algorithm to.
noun
  1. A very thin sheet of metal.
  2. A very thin sheet of plastic.
  3. Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
  4. A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
  5. In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character and who usually acts as an opponent or antagonist, but can also serve as the sidekick of the protagonist.
  6. Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.
  7. A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip.
  8. A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation. See transparency.
  9. A premium trading card with a glossy finish.
  10. A stylized flower or leaf.
  11. Clipping of hydrofoil.
  12. Clipping of aerofoil/airfoil.
verb
  1. To cover or wrap with foil.
  2. Clipping of hydrofoil.
verb
  1. To prevent (something) from being accomplished.
  2. To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.
  3. To blunt; to dull; to spoil.
  4. To tread underfoot; to trample.
noun
  1. Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
  2. One of the incorrect answers presented in a multiple-choice test.
noun
  1. The track of an animal.
verb
  1. To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.
verb
  1. To defile; to soil.
noun
  1. A small arc in the tracery of a window, etc.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

FOIL FOILs FOILing FOILed

Etymology

Acronym of first outer inner last or similar.

Synonyms

aluminium foil silver foil silver paper tin foil put the kibosh on scupper thwart mar mess up vitiate ball up blight bumble botch bugger up bungle contaminate corrupt crab deprave disrupt disturb foil fuck up jack up mishandle mommick pollute put a crimp in queer ruin screw up soil sour spoil stain undo upset turn upside down upset the applecart spoor befile sully assoil beclart bedaub bedirty imbrue (especially with blood) bedizen befilth befoul begrime beray beshit besmear besmirch besully bewray blacken blot

Related words

multifoil polyfoil trefoil

Derived words

aluminum foil biofoil blisterfoil bow foil cephalofoil cinquefoil counterfoil dufoil F50 featherfoil foilboard foilist foil razor foil shaver foilsman foil stone gold foil holofoil jetfoil octofoil quatrefoil rockfoil rushfoil sexfoil tin foil tinfoil trefoil twifoil foilable foiler unfoiled
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