foil
UKfɔil
USfɔıl
معنی فارسی
شمشيرکند شمشيربي نوک حرمان الودن ردکردن دفع کردن عجز نوميدي
تعریف انگلیسی
verb
- a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal “the photographic film was wrapped in foil”
- anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities “pretty girls like plain friends as foils”
- 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”
- picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector
- a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button
- enhance by contrast “In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background” “Somebody ----s something” “Something ----s something”
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of “What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge” “foil your opponent” “Somebody ----s something” “Something ----s something”
- cover or back with foil “foil mirrors” “Somebody ----s something” “Something ----s something”
مترادفها
I. verb active
Defeat, frustrate, balk, baffle, thwart check, circumvent, disappoint, checkmate.
II. noun
1. Film, flake, lamina (of metal).
2. Contrast, background, set off.
3. Blunted rapier.