We found 55 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word foil:
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 General (29 matching dictionaries)
- foil, foil, foil: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
- foil: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info]
- foil, foil, foil: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- foil, foil, foil: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
- foil: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
- Foil, foil: Wordnik [home, info]
- foil: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
- FOIL: Wiktionary [home, info]
- foil: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
- foil: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- foil: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
- foil: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- foil (n.), foil (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
- foil: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
- foil: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
- FOIL (programming language), FOIL, Foil (band), Foil (chemistry), Foil (fencing), Foil (fluid mechanics), Foil (literature), Foil (sword): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
- Foil: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
- foil: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
- foil: Rhymezone [home, info]
- foil: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- foil: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
- Foil: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
- Foil: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
- foil: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- foil: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
- foil: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
- Foil, foil: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
- foil: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
- foil: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]
Art (6 matching dictionaries)
- foil: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology [home, info]
- Foil: An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry [home, info]
- Foil: English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) [home, info]
- Foil: Glossary: Gothic Art and Architecture [home, info]
- FOIL: Shakespeare Glossary [home, info]
- Foil: Natural Magick [home, info]
Business (3 matching dictionaries)
- Foil: Construction Term Glossary [home, info]
- foil: Legal dictionary [home, info]
- foil: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info]
Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
- FOIL: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
- foil: Encyclopedia [home, info]
Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
- FOIL, foil: online medical dictionary [home, info]
- foil: Medical dictionary [home, info]
Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
- FOIL: Acronym Finder [home, info]
- FOIL: AbbreviationZ [home, info]
Science (2 matching dictionaries)
- foil: MATH SPOKEN HERE! [home, info]
- FOIL: PlanetMath Encyclopedia [home, info]
Slang (1 matching dictionary)
- Foil: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade [home, info]
Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
- foil: Hickok Sports Glossaries [home, info]
- Foil: Sports Definitions [home, info]
Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
- foil: Book Binding [home, info]
- FOIL: Metal Terminology [home, info]
- Foil: Fabric Glossary [home, info]
- Foil: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
- foil: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]
- Foil: Urban Conservation Glossary [home, info]
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Quick definitions (foil)
▸ noun: a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button
▸ noun: a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal ("The photographic film was wrapped in foil")
▸ noun: picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector
▸ 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")
▸ verb: enhance by contrast ("In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background")
▸ verb: cover or back with foil ("Foil mirrors")
▸ verb: hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of ("Foil your opponent")
▸ name: A surname (very rare: popularity rank in the U.S.: #26595)
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