foil

Oznaczający (English)

Noun

1. A very thin sheet of metal.
2. Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
3. A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
4. 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.
5. Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.
6. A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip
7. A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation. See transparency.
8. A premium trading card with a glossy finish.
9. A stylized flower or leaf.
10. Clipping of hydrofoil.
11. 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. (obsolete) To tread underfoot; to trample.

Verb

To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.

Verb

To defile; to soil.

Synonyms

thwart

frustrate

baffle

rapier

spoil

scotch

cross

hydrofoil

defeat

sword

enhancer

bilk

queer

leaf

blade

transparency

impede

wing

🪽

forestall

restrain

stop

🛑

confound

contrast

hinder

sheet

inhibit

lamina

block

tinfoil

tinsel

mar

obstruct

undo

destroy

aerofoil

disturb

check

prevent

cutlass

embarrass

emphasise

emphasize

epee

forbid

foreground

forfend

gilt

go against

gold leaf

hamper

hand

✋

head off

heighten

help

highlight

incapacitate

let down

obviate

outwit

paddle

pennon

pick up

pinion

plate

pliable

point

point up

☝️

quit

ruin

sabre

scrap

scuttle

shut

signalize

slide

spangle

stymie

stymy

thin sheet

trammel

underline

underscore

vane

veneer

ward off

web

forefend

small-sword

frustate

oppse

render fruitless

thin sheet metal

silver-paper

foil detector

tinfoil hat

alfoil

abandon

abort

acanthus

airfoil

ala

aluminum foil

annexe

antithesis

arrest

avert

background

balk

bar

beat

blockade

block out

block up

break

broadsword

call off

cancel

circumvent

complement

counteract

cramp

curb

curtain

curve

damage

dash

💨

debar

deep-six

deflect

deter

disappoint

ditch

dramatise

ell

Wymawiane jako (IPA)

/fɔɪl/

Etymologia (English)

Inherited from średnioangielski: foyle

Inherited from średnioangielski: foilen

In summary

From Middle English foyle, from Middle French fueille, from Old French fueille (“plant leaf”), from Late Latin folia, the plural of folium, mistaken as a singular feminine.
The literary sense is from the practice of backing a gem with metal foil to make it shine more brilliantly.
Doublet of folio and folium, distantly also with phyllo and phyllon.