| 单词 | foil |
| 释义 | foil (once / 1033 pages) 1v 2nv 3nv 4n 5n You can serve as a foil to someone if you show them to be better than you by contrast. If you can't dance but your friend Lisa can, you can be a foil to Lisa's grace. If you're having trouble remembering this definition, think about a shiny piece of tin foil. It reflects an image back to you, so if you're a foil to someone, their image is reflected off of you in a positive light. Your brother's mediocre grades might serve as a foil to your intelligence. As a verb, if you foil someone's plans or attempts to do something, you cause them to fail. Your brother will be really mad if you foil his plans to hide his mediocre report card from your parents. WORD FAMILYfoil: foiled, foiling, foils, foliate+/foliate: bifoliate, foliated, foliating, foliation/foliation: foliations USAGE EXAMPLESIn Melbourne, police foiled a “significant” Islamic State-inspired Christmas Day terror plot. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) But a lack of progress in his recovery foiled those plans. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Most of the artwork is printed on aluminum panels, although one artist incorporates aluminum foil into mixed-media canvases. Washington Post(Dec 23, 2016) 1 v hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of 2foil your opponent Syn|Hypo|Hyper baffle, bilk, cross, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart disappoint, let down fail to meet the hopes or expectations of dashdestroy or break short-circuithamper the progress of; impede ruindestroy or cause to fail betray, faildisappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake come short, fall shortfail to meet (expectations or standards) disenchant, disillusionfree from enchantment undocause the ruin or downfall of breakcause the failure or ruin of shipwreckruin utterly forbid, foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent keep from happening or arising; make impossible 1n a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal the photographic film was wrapped in foil Hypo|Hyper aluminium foil, aluminum foil, tin foil foil made of aluminum chafffoil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure gold foilfoil made of gold tin foil, tinfoilfoil made of tin or an alloy of tin and lead gold leafa very thin form of gold foil sheet metal sheet of metal formed into a thin plate 2v cover or back with foil 3foil mirrors Hyper cover provide with a covering or cause to be covered 1n anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities pretty girls like plain friends as foils Syn|Hyper enhancer attention a general interest that leads people to want to know more 2n picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector Syn|Hypo|Hyper transparency lantern slide, slide a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector overhead, viewgrapha transparency for use with an overhead projector icon, ikon, image, picture a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface 3v enhance by contrast 4In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background Hyper contrast, counterpoint to show differences when compared; be different n a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button 5Hyper fencing sword a sword used in the sport of fencing n 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 Syn|Hyper hydrofoil device an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose |
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