foil

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Wow!During his 1999 trial, Schneeberger revealed the method he used to foil the DNA tests.

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Quick take

a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; "the photographic film was wrapped in foil"

Meaning at a glance

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noun

a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; "the photographic film was wrapped in foil"

noun

anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities; "pretty girls like plain friends as foils"

noun

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"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for foil.

noun

a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; "the photographic film was wrapped in foil"

noun

anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities; "pretty girls like plain friends as foils"

noun

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"

noun

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

noun

a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button

verb

enhance by contrast; "In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background"

verb

hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"

See also: thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk

verb

cover or back with foil; "foil mirrors"

Example sentences

Wow!During his 1999 trial, Schneeberger revealed the method he used to foil the DNA tests.

Does anyone remember the old days when Stallman was an over the top tin foil hat crackpot?

No amount of tin foil, bunny ears, or interpretive dance will make it happen again.

I for one am looking forward to wrapping leftovers in platinum foil.

For me, all the revelations and confirmations of foil hat theories have destroyed the joy the internet used to be.

2048 is expected to last many more decades, and I haven't seen 4096 outside tin-foil hat environments.

Doctorow is not doing anybody any favors by going into full tin-foil-hat-speak to disguise the facts.

I consider Firefox a good foil against that evolution, and I've started switching back to Firefox for my primary browser.

There have been many cases of "terrorist plots" within the US having been foiled over the last few years, but many if not most of these are not as serious as most would believe.

Try this fun experiment, put a piece of paper over an iPad and watch your gestures go right "thru" it, put a piece of foil over your ipad, and note how you can do anything.

The fact that you're setting up DHH as a foil to Linus is exactly why the old men are cranky; when it comes to technology, Linus has more qualifications in his pinky than DHH has all put together.

A stereotypical "foiled terrorist plot" begins with a radicalized individual who somehow comes to the attention of the authorities.

I'm probably going to turn in to that old guy with tin foil who can't play any games because nobody supports his choice of platform, but I really miss when computers were devices you could buy and then put your choice of OS on.

Yet people laugh at me for being a paranoid silly tin-foil-hat nerd if I tell them that I browse with Javascript disabled by default and if a site requires it I am more likely to simply close the tab and move on before I enable it.

However, since they appear capable of coercing cooperating anyway, a slightly more tin-foil-hat reading is that their access is less straightforward than asking Page and Zuckerberg for help.#3 is probably happening regardless of whatever cooperation the companies are providing.

I feel so stupid and so ashamed of myself for all the time I have thought of everything Richard Stallman had to say about privacy and security concern as a "neck-beard, tin-foil hat, nutjob".He was right all along, it was us who didn't care enough to understand what he was saying and its importance.