Usually means: Thin metal sheet, enhances contrast.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. foil: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. foil, foil, foil, foil: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. foil, foil, foil: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. foil: Collins English Dictionary
  5. foil: Vocabulary.com
  6. Foil, foil: Wordnik
  7. foil: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. FOIL, foil: Wiktionary
  9. foil: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. foil: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. foil: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. foil: Dictionary.com
  13. foil (n.), foil (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. foil: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. FOIL (programming language), Foil (architecture), Foil (disambiguation), Foil (fencing), Foil (fluid mechanics), Foil (literature), Foil (metal), Foil (song), Foil (sword), Foil: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Foil: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. foil: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. foil: Rhymezone
  19. foil: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. foil: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Foil: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. foil: Free Dictionary
  23. foil: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. foil: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. foil: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. foil: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)
  3. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  4. Glossary: Gothic Art and Architecture (No longer online)
  5. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. foil: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. FOIL: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. foil: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. foil: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. FOIL: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOIL: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. foil, foil: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Foil: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Foil: Sports Definitions

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  3. Fabric Glossary (No longer online)
  4. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  5. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  6. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (mnemonic) An acronym for the algorithm for multiplying two binomials.
verb:  (transitive) To apply the FOIL algorithm to.
noun:  A very thin sheet of metal.
noun:  (chiefly uncountable) Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
noun:  A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
noun:  (authorship, figuratively) 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.
noun:  (figuratively) Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.
noun:  (fencing) A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip
noun:  A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation. See transparency.
noun:  A premium trading card with a glossy finish.
noun:  (heraldry) A stylized flower or leaf.
verb:  (transitive) To cover or wrap with foil.
verb:  To prevent (something) from being accomplished.
verb:  To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.
verb:  To blunt; to dull; to spoil.
verb:  (obsolete) To tread underfoot; to trample.
noun:  Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
noun:  One of the incorrect answers presented in a multiple-choice test.
noun:  (hunting) The track of an animal.
verb:  (mathematics) To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.
verb:  (obsolete) To defile; to soil.
noun:  (architecture) A small arc in the tracery of a window, etc.
noun:  (hydrodynamics, nautical) Clipping of hydrofoil. [(nautical) A wing attached to the hull of a ship that raises it out of the water when travelling at speed and thus reduces drag.]
noun:  (aerodynamics, aviation) Clipping of aerofoil/airfoil.
verb:  (nautical) Clipping of hydrofoil. [(nautical, intransitive) To operate or use or ride atop a hydrofoil wing on a hull so equipped.]

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