foils
Because it is a word with a single syllable, foils is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions offoils
- A very thin sheet of metal.
- Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
Example: "wrap the sandwich up in foil"
- A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
- (authorship) 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.
- Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.
- A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip
- A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation. See transparency.
- A stylized flower or leaf.
- A hydrofoil.
- An aerofoil/airfoil.
- To cover or wrap with foil.
- Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
- One of the incorrect answers presented in a multiple-choice test.
- To prevent (something) from being accomplished.
Example: "I was foiled by my superior"
- To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.
Example: "They foiled my plans."
- To blunt; to dull; to spoil.
Example: "to foil the scent in hunting"
- To tread underfoot; to trample.
- The track of an animal.
- To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.
- To defile; to soil.
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