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verb fɔɪlfɔɪl [with object]1Prevent (something considered wrong or undesirable) from succeeding. a brave policewoman foiled the armed robbery Example sentencesExamples - Armed police foiled a robbery in Urmston today.
- At around 11 am that day a pensioner foiled another attempted scam by a man and woman in Central Avenue, Gravesend.
- Police and the army have already foiled several bomb attacks and captured several suspected terrorists.
- Police foiled a 1999 kidnap plot against Victoria and Brooklyn, although no one was arrested in that case.
- Like the film, it begins with an ordinary day in the life of Mr. Incredible and his wife-to-be, Elastigirl, as they foil a bank heist.
- A courageous have-a-go hero was threatened with a wooden pole after foiling a late-night theft attempt.
- There is more to foil the car thief's attempt.
- His direct action and cool nerves foil the robbery in suitably dramatic fashion.
- Rain is man's mortal enemy, foiling our fiendish plans at every opportunity!
- A have-a-go hero who was shot as he tried to foil a bank robbery was a retired bank manager himself, it emerged last night.
- But Morgan makes enemies right away when he foils a mugging by a gang of local ruffians.
- The officers also foiled a protected animals smuggling attempt to South Korea, South Africa and Japan.
- Two Bradford postmen have been hailed for foiling a raid on a post office on their way to work.
- Police foiled their attempt to march out of the Dhaka University campus to demonstrate on the street.
- On May 30, the government announced that it had foiled a second coup attempt.
- The security company which foiled the abduction of a baby from a maternity hospital is to create 200 new jobs in a nationwide expansion.
- Lamont and Rollo foil a robbery and take possession of the burglar's gun.
- I was informed recently that it was a Johnson who foiled the gunpowder plot.
Synonyms thwart, frustrate, counter, oppose, baulk, disappoint, impede, obstruct, hamper, hinder, snooker, cripple, scotch, derail, smash, dash - 1.1 Frustrate the efforts or plans of.
their rivals were foiled by the weather Example sentencesExamples - And even if he does, by then we'll have foiled his plans.
- In Tucson, Arizona, Barbara dries them on her roof, spreading the tomatoes on oiled screens under cheesecloth tents to foil the birds.
- But I found my efforts repeatedly foiled by the expectations of the students themselves.
- My heart raced as I thought that my plan had been foiled once again.
- If scarcity doesn't foil the restitution effort, public opinion could.
- My plan was foiled when I asked my sister if she'd accidentally called me, and she said ‘Must have, you're in my calls list!’
- These attempts were foiled as Vince flew through open gaps before the water could tighten around his body.
- Let James rejoice with the Skuttle-Fish, who foils his foe by the effusion of his ink.
- The 89-year-old foiled two would-be thieves last November.
- The metaphorical character of Nietzsche's concepts serves to foil any definitive reading of his philosophy.
- Am I joining exercise classes so I can foil fools who rob me?
- When trying to foil any pest or nuisance animal, learn about its habits, likes, and dislikes.
- Well, it looks like all my zest for writing what could possibly have turned into a dirty little article has been foiled.
- For the chickadees, he made feeders from lengths of PVC pipe that hung from high wires to foil the bears.
- But thanks to us alert Icelanders (well, me at least) this evil plot is foiled yet again.
- She wanted to ignore him, but he kept foiling her best attempts.
- However, the alleged attack was foiled by the alert police force of the district.
- Last night a basketball game foiled my efforts to watch the third from the last ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ episode.
- Terror leadership is being found and brought to justice; attacks have been foiled.
- The area's sheer size no doubt foiled the patrols, but confusion as to who ought to be ejected also likely played a part.
Synonyms thwart, frustrate, counter, oppose, baulk, disappoint, impede, obstruct, hamper, hinder, snooker, cripple, scotch, derail, smash, dash - 1.2Hunting (of a hunted animal) run over or cross (ground or a scent or track) in such a way as to confuse the hounds.
Example sentencesExamples - At the other end Foy was foiled twice before Kilheeney's cross was scrambled clear, as the game swung from end to end.
- What's more fun to watch than a trained dog foiling bad guys?
- They tried to get close to the animal but were foiled by the frustrated beast.
noun fɔɪlfɔɪl 1Hunting
The track or scent of a hunted animal. 2archaic A setback in an enterprise; a defeat.
Origin Middle English (in the sense 'trample down'): perhaps from Old French fouler 'to full cloth, trample', based on Latin fullo 'fuller'. Compare with full2. Rhymes boil, Boyle, broil, coil, Dáil, Doyle, embroil, Fianna Fáil, Hoyle, moil, noil, oil, roil, Royle, soil, spoil, toil, voile noun fɔɪlfɔɪl 1mass noun Metal hammered or rolled into a thin flexible sheet, used chiefly for covering or wrapping food. Example sentencesExamples - She parked her tush on one of the chairs and removed the foil wrapping.
- When the photon hits an object, that object recoils - you can measure this using a thin sheet of foil in a vacuum.
- An outer insulating layer protects the anode, a thin lithium metal foil or a graphite - lithium composite.
- I unwrapped a Pop Tart from its foil wrapper and placed it in the toaster.
- Tom carefully arranged the bacon on a sheet covered with aluminum foil.
- Tin foil hats arrive in the mail ten days after your membership is confirmed.
- I could see lots of clear plastic bags and silver foil wraps floating away.
- And I've covered all my work surfaces with heavy-duty kitchen foil.
- What if I blocked the vents with crumpled aluminium foil and kept the hot air from escaping?
- Gold foil is used for decorative gilding coatings in, for example books, church furniture, steeples and statues.
- If you can't track them down use foil instead, which may not be as pretty but is just as effective.
- Mr. Doe unwrapped the tin foil and found five hundred dollar bills.
- And as well as wrapping the turkey in foil this year, some people tried doing the same with their sets.
- I unwrapped the tin foil from the sandwich as Zephyr glared hungrily at it.
- Indeed the roses made of purplish painted aluminium foil have a sick irradiated glow.
- For special needs, stainless steel and copper foil may be specified.
- For large cutouts, copper foil is used as a temporary backing to hold the enamel in place.
- Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil and brush with olive oil.
- On a baking sheet lined with aluminium foil spread out the seeds.
- Do not cover drip tray or any part of the oven with metal foil.
2A person or thing that contrasts with and so emphasizes and enhances the qualities of another. his white cravat was a perfect foil for his bronzed features Example sentencesExamples - Noah is the perfect foil to Rachel's twitchy intellect.
- Tony's meddling sister Janice turns into an excellent foil and object of Tony's anger.
- No longer simply comic foils or chubby sidekicks, the leading men of these shows are supersize stars.
- As a foil to the brilliance of Dalglish he was the cornerstone of the fabulous Liverpool midfield of the 1980's.
- And as for that little man, who was the ghost writer of the whole thing, well he is the perfect foil for Mr. Keane.
- Now Thatcher's famous intransigence provided the perfect foil to the image being built of the noble rebel.
- His chunky, twitchy presence is the perfect foil for Li's monotone, driven one and the scenes the two have together are amongst the best in the film.
- Their partnership seemed perfect - the steady Toms offering a perfect foil to the inconsistent brilliance of Mickelson.
- ‘Sutton is the perfect foil for a more mobile striker, and in his Blackburn days Shearer performed that role,’ the defender states.
- Patterson feels that 34 year-old Starbuck will be the perfect foil for him in on-the-field affairs.
- If Sandra for the major part is congenial, affable, it is her sparring partner, Regina King, who plays a perfect foil.
- Both of these are conceived as lightweight foils to the solid white mass of the main volume and reveal something of the building's functions.
- The more I learned, the more he became the foil to Cook's trajectory - the night sky to Cook's rising star.
- Qualities such as these make goddesses a perfect foil to counter new forms of cultural colonisation.
- More rich color comes from a deep green dwarf philodendron, whose glossy leaves are a foil to the pincushions' fine texture.
- The big leathery leaves of the hostas are an excellent foil for the fernlike foliage of the astilbes.
- He was a great ‘reacter,’ which made him the perfect foil for Stan and Ollie.
- He provided a perfect foil for Afridi, and reached a half-century of his own.
- With women finding themselves pushing their way up the social ladder, husbands are now okay with playing the perfect foil.
- It provides a perfect foil for the more lively Donaghy's bar.
Synonyms contrast, background, setting, relief, antithesis complement - 2.1 A thin leaf of metal placed under a precious stone to increase its brilliance.
Example sentencesExamples - Additionally, I love combining the pewter with other metal foils such as copper and brass foil, as well as using metal paints and glass beads.
- Metal foils are available, with embossed aluminum most popular.
- Coloured foil on the glass skin adds a further kaleidoscopic dimension.
- The shine and transparency of glass automatically adds dimension and using metallic inks and foils only enhance the effect.
- The reflective foil gives the surface a shiny playful quality.
- The final inclusion is a thin foil case badge saying simply ‘Geared by MSI’.
- All work is done by hand and no dyes or stencils are used to trace the pattern or to cut foils,’ says Indu.
3Architecture
A leaf-shaped curve formed by the cusping of an arch or circle.
Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin folium 'leaf'. noun fɔɪlfɔɪl A light, blunt-edged fencing sword with a button on its point. Example sentencesExamples - The rules still state that the foil and épée are thrusting weapons.
- The very design of the Italian foil and épée is based on the rapier prototype.
- Audrey was pointing the foil still on Vincent's throat.
- He clouds his own points by making references to modern foil, épée and sabre.
- The tournament involves the three fencing swords, foil, épée and sabre and comprises individual and team events.
- What is the compelling reason for beginning your fencing career with the foil?
- Indeed Veeru's Napier thrust looked just the foil to Rahul's rapier thrust.
- The Italian foil with crossbar, with a very short grip, requires holding the pommel against the wrist by means of a strap.
- Just as she gets stabbed through the neck with a fencing foil, it is revealed that what we've just seen was nothing but a TV movie.
- The illustration shows a parry similar to the French foil parry of fifth.
- Harrison gulps with the point of the foil at his throat.
- Quentin walks to the wall and examines one of the two fencing foils on display.
- They loaded it into the Holden's carriage along with some foils for fencing, a few books, and the girls' dolls.
- Each adversary was dressed in a white jacket, the buttons of their foils were dipped in liquid; that of Lapiere's red, Le Brun's black.
- She grimaced and let the point of her foil drop to the floor.
- As she spun, the missed thrust carried the girl forward, and she took advantage of that, hitting the girl in the stomach with the tip of her foil.
- However, it reappeared in a different form the next day when Tandy was doing some work on his fencing foil.
- Afterwards the Prince asked for a set of foils, masks and gloves, for which Roland was suitably rewarded.
- I had read about this kind of sword before - a Rapier - a dueling foil - a child's toy.
- He puts the fencing foil back on the wall and asks Petofi if he needs a doctor.
Derivatives noun The modern sabreur plays a game of priority of one cut over another cut and like the foilist, creates situations and provokes responses from the opponent to allow him to score points. Example sentencesExamples - The visitors took the first leg, before Oxford came back with strong displays from the foilists and épéeists to wrap up the contest.
- Put another way, you could equip 8.5 classical foilists for the cost of 3 Olympic foilists.
Origin Late 16th century: of unknown origin. noun fɔɪlfɔɪl Each of the structures fitted to a hydrofoil's hull to lift it clear of the water at speed. Example sentencesExamples - Because the foils are fine they react very well indeed - the positive side of having the ballast in the hull.
- The greater the pressure, the smaller the diameter the ruptured foil would be.
- The flow lines are compressed, and the pressure beneath the foil is increased.
- Friction between the shuttle rollers and the foil causes problems with the tension control.
- Roller-furling headsails should be removed from the foils not only do they create windage but the chance of their unrolling is great.
Origin Abbreviation of hydrofoil. verbfoilfɔɪl [with object]1Prevent (something considered wrong or undesirable) from succeeding. a brave policewoman foiled the armed robbery Example sentencesExamples - I was informed recently that it was a Johnson who foiled the gunpowder plot.
- Police and the army have already foiled several bomb attacks and captured several suspected terrorists.
- Two Bradford postmen have been hailed for foiling a raid on a post office on their way to work.
- Rain is man's mortal enemy, foiling our fiendish plans at every opportunity!
- Like the film, it begins with an ordinary day in the life of Mr. Incredible and his wife-to-be, Elastigirl, as they foil a bank heist.
- A have-a-go hero who was shot as he tried to foil a bank robbery was a retired bank manager himself, it emerged last night.
- A courageous have-a-go hero was threatened with a wooden pole after foiling a late-night theft attempt.
- But Morgan makes enemies right away when he foils a mugging by a gang of local ruffians.
- Lamont and Rollo foil a robbery and take possession of the burglar's gun.
- There is more to foil the car thief's attempt.
- At around 11 am that day a pensioner foiled another attempted scam by a man and woman in Central Avenue, Gravesend.
- On May 30, the government announced that it had foiled a second coup attempt.
- The security company which foiled the abduction of a baby from a maternity hospital is to create 200 new jobs in a nationwide expansion.
- His direct action and cool nerves foil the robbery in suitably dramatic fashion.
- Armed police foiled a robbery in Urmston today.
- Police foiled their attempt to march out of the Dhaka University campus to demonstrate on the street.
- The officers also foiled a protected animals smuggling attempt to South Korea, South Africa and Japan.
- Police foiled a 1999 kidnap plot against Victoria and Brooklyn, although no one was arrested in that case.
Synonyms thwart, frustrate, counter, oppose, baulk, disappoint, impede, obstruct, hamper, hinder, snooker, cripple, scotch, derail, smash, dash - 1.1 Frustrate the efforts or plans of.
Errol Flynn was a dashing Mountie foiling Nazi agents in Canada Example sentencesExamples - The area's sheer size no doubt foiled the patrols, but confusion as to who ought to be ejected also likely played a part.
- If scarcity doesn't foil the restitution effort, public opinion could.
- Let James rejoice with the Skuttle-Fish, who foils his foe by the effusion of his ink.
- Terror leadership is being found and brought to justice; attacks have been foiled.
- And even if he does, by then we'll have foiled his plans.
- The 89-year-old foiled two would-be thieves last November.
- But I found my efforts repeatedly foiled by the expectations of the students themselves.
- My heart raced as I thought that my plan had been foiled once again.
- However, the alleged attack was foiled by the alert police force of the district.
- The metaphorical character of Nietzsche's concepts serves to foil any definitive reading of his philosophy.
- For the chickadees, he made feeders from lengths of PVC pipe that hung from high wires to foil the bears.
- Last night a basketball game foiled my efforts to watch the third from the last ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ episode.
- Am I joining exercise classes so I can foil fools who rob me?
- But thanks to us alert Icelanders (well, me at least) this evil plot is foiled yet again.
- Well, it looks like all my zest for writing what could possibly have turned into a dirty little article has been foiled.
- These attempts were foiled as Vince flew through open gaps before the water could tighten around his body.
- When trying to foil any pest or nuisance animal, learn about its habits, likes, and dislikes.
- My plan was foiled when I asked my sister if she'd accidentally called me, and she said ‘Must have, you're in my calls list!’
- In Tucson, Arizona, Barbara dries them on her roof, spreading the tomatoes on oiled screens under cheesecloth tents to foil the birds.
- She wanted to ignore him, but he kept foiling her best attempts.
Synonyms thwart, frustrate, counter, oppose, baulk, disappoint, impede, obstruct, hamper, hinder, snooker, cripple, scotch, derail, smash, dash - 1.2Hunting (of a hunted animal) run over or cross (ground or a scent or track) in such a way as to confuse the hounds.
Example sentencesExamples - What's more fun to watch than a trained dog foiling bad guys?
- They tried to get close to the animal but were foiled by the frustrated beast.
- At the other end Foy was foiled twice before Kilheeney's cross was scrambled clear, as the game swung from end to end.
nounfoilfɔɪl 1Hunting
The track or scent of a hunted animal. 2archaic A setback in an enterprise; a defeat.
Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘trample down’): perhaps from Old French fouler ‘to full cloth, trample’, based on Latin fullo ‘fuller’. Compare with full. nounfɔɪlfoil 1Metal hammered or rolled into a thin flexible sheet, used chiefly for covering or wrapping food. Example sentencesExamples - Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil and brush with olive oil.
- Tom carefully arranged the bacon on a sheet covered with aluminum foil.
- An outer insulating layer protects the anode, a thin lithium metal foil or a graphite - lithium composite.
- And I've covered all my work surfaces with heavy-duty kitchen foil.
- She parked her tush on one of the chairs and removed the foil wrapping.
- Mr. Doe unwrapped the tin foil and found five hundred dollar bills.
- And as well as wrapping the turkey in foil this year, some people tried doing the same with their sets.
- I could see lots of clear plastic bags and silver foil wraps floating away.
- For special needs, stainless steel and copper foil may be specified.
- For large cutouts, copper foil is used as a temporary backing to hold the enamel in place.
- I unwrapped the tin foil from the sandwich as Zephyr glared hungrily at it.
- I unwrapped a Pop Tart from its foil wrapper and placed it in the toaster.
- Gold foil is used for decorative gilding coatings in, for example books, church furniture, steeples and statues.
- On a baking sheet lined with aluminium foil spread out the seeds.
- When the photon hits an object, that object recoils - you can measure this using a thin sheet of foil in a vacuum.
- Do not cover drip tray or any part of the oven with metal foil.
- Tin foil hats arrive in the mail ten days after your membership is confirmed.
- Indeed the roses made of purplish painted aluminium foil have a sick irradiated glow.
- If you can't track them down use foil instead, which may not be as pretty but is just as effective.
- What if I blocked the vents with crumpled aluminium foil and kept the hot air from escaping?
2A person or thing that contrasts with and so emphasizes and enhances the qualities of another. the earthy taste of grilled vegetables is a perfect foil for the tart bite of creamy goat cheese Example sentencesExamples - Their partnership seemed perfect - the steady Toms offering a perfect foil to the inconsistent brilliance of Mickelson.
- ‘Sutton is the perfect foil for a more mobile striker, and in his Blackburn days Shearer performed that role,’ the defender states.
- And as for that little man, who was the ghost writer of the whole thing, well he is the perfect foil for Mr. Keane.
- As a foil to the brilliance of Dalglish he was the cornerstone of the fabulous Liverpool midfield of the 1980's.
- He provided a perfect foil for Afridi, and reached a half-century of his own.
- With women finding themselves pushing their way up the social ladder, husbands are now okay with playing the perfect foil.
- Tony's meddling sister Janice turns into an excellent foil and object of Tony's anger.
- More rich color comes from a deep green dwarf philodendron, whose glossy leaves are a foil to the pincushions' fine texture.
- He was a great ‘reacter,’ which made him the perfect foil for Stan and Ollie.
- Now Thatcher's famous intransigence provided the perfect foil to the image being built of the noble rebel.
- Both of these are conceived as lightweight foils to the solid white mass of the main volume and reveal something of the building's functions.
- The big leathery leaves of the hostas are an excellent foil for the fernlike foliage of the astilbes.
- Qualities such as these make goddesses a perfect foil to counter new forms of cultural colonisation.
- Patterson feels that 34 year-old Starbuck will be the perfect foil for him in on-the-field affairs.
- Noah is the perfect foil to Rachel's twitchy intellect.
- It provides a perfect foil for the more lively Donaghy's bar.
- The more I learned, the more he became the foil to Cook's trajectory - the night sky to Cook's rising star.
- His chunky, twitchy presence is the perfect foil for Li's monotone, driven one and the scenes the two have together are amongst the best in the film.
- No longer simply comic foils or chubby sidekicks, the leading men of these shows are supersize stars.
- If Sandra for the major part is congenial, affable, it is her sparring partner, Regina King, who plays a perfect foil.
Synonyms contrast, background, setting, relief, antithesis - 2.1 A thin leaf of metal placed under a precious stone to increase its brilliance.
Example sentencesExamples - The reflective foil gives the surface a shiny playful quality.
- The shine and transparency of glass automatically adds dimension and using metallic inks and foils only enhance the effect.
- Coloured foil on the glass skin adds a further kaleidoscopic dimension.
- Metal foils are available, with embossed aluminum most popular.
- The final inclusion is a thin foil case badge saying simply ‘Geared by MSI’.
- Additionally, I love combining the pewter with other metal foils such as copper and brass foil, as well as using metal paints and glass beads.
- All work is done by hand and no dyes or stencils are used to trace the pattern or to cut foils,’ says Indu.
3Architecture
A leaf-shaped curve formed by the cusping of an arch or circle, typically occurring in groups of three or more in Gothic tracery.
Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin folium ‘leaf’. nounfɔɪlfoil A light fencing sword without cutting edges but with a button on its point. Example sentencesExamples - The Italian foil with crossbar, with a very short grip, requires holding the pommel against the wrist by means of a strap.
- However, it reappeared in a different form the next day when Tandy was doing some work on his fencing foil.
- The very design of the Italian foil and épée is based on the rapier prototype.
- The rules still state that the foil and épée are thrusting weapons.
- She grimaced and let the point of her foil drop to the floor.
- I had read about this kind of sword before - a Rapier - a dueling foil - a child's toy.
- They loaded it into the Holden's carriage along with some foils for fencing, a few books, and the girls' dolls.
- Just as she gets stabbed through the neck with a fencing foil, it is revealed that what we've just seen was nothing but a TV movie.
- Harrison gulps with the point of the foil at his throat.
- The tournament involves the three fencing swords, foil, épée and sabre and comprises individual and team events.
- Each adversary was dressed in a white jacket, the buttons of their foils were dipped in liquid; that of Lapiere's red, Le Brun's black.
- Audrey was pointing the foil still on Vincent's throat.
- Indeed Veeru's Napier thrust looked just the foil to Rahul's rapier thrust.
- He clouds his own points by making references to modern foil, épée and sabre.
- The illustration shows a parry similar to the French foil parry of fifth.
- Afterwards the Prince asked for a set of foils, masks and gloves, for which Roland was suitably rewarded.
- He puts the fencing foil back on the wall and asks Petofi if he needs a doctor.
- As she spun, the missed thrust carried the girl forward, and she took advantage of that, hitting the girl in the stomach with the tip of her foil.
- Quentin walks to the wall and examines one of the two fencing foils on display.
- What is the compelling reason for beginning your fencing career with the foil?
Origin Late 16th century: of unknown origin. nounfɔɪlfoil Each of the winglike structures fitted to a hydrofoil's hull to lift it clear of the water at speed. Example sentencesExamples - Roller-furling headsails should be removed from the foils not only do they create windage but the chance of their unrolling is great.
- The flow lines are compressed, and the pressure beneath the foil is increased.
- Because the foils are fine they react very well indeed - the positive side of having the ballast in the hull.
- The greater the pressure, the smaller the diameter the ruptured foil would be.
- Friction between the shuttle rollers and the foil causes problems with the tension control.
Origin Abbreviation of hydrofoil. |