Foil

[fɔɪl]

解釋/意思:

(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'.

(verb.) cover or back with foil; 'foil mirrors'.

(verb.) enhance by contrast; 'In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background'.

錄入:厄普顿--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To tread under foot; to trample.

(v. t.) To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.

(v. t.) To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase.

(v. t.) To defile; to soil.

(n.) Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.

(n.) A blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point.

(n.) The track or trail of an animal.

(n.) A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil.

(n.) A thin leaf of sheet copper silvered and burnished, and afterwards coated with transparent colors mixed with isinglass; -- employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy to pastes and inferior stones.

(n.) Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage.

(n.) A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection.

(n.) The space between the cusps in Gothic architecture; a rounded or leaflike ornament, in windows, niches, etc. A group of foils is called trefoil, quatrefoil, quinquefoil, etc., according to the number of arcs of which it is composed.

錄入:费尔普斯

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. Defeat, frustrate, balk, disappoint, baffle.

乔治錄入

同義詞及反義詞：

[See BAFFLE]

SYN:Set-off, background, contrast, enhancement, setting, elucidation

ANT:Eclipse, outshining, extinction, overshadowing

手打:莉莲

解釋/意思:

n. a leaf or thin plate of metal as tin-foil: a thin leaf of metal put under precious stones to increase their lustre or change their colour: anything that serves to set off something else: a small arc in the tracery of a window &c. (trefoiled cinquefoiled multifoiled &c.).—adj. Foiled.—n. Foil′ing.

v.t. to defeat: to puzzle: to disappoint: (Spens.) to beat down or trample with the feet:—pr.p. foil′ing; pa.p. foiled.—n. failure after success seemed certain: defeat: a blunt sword used in fencing having a button on the point.—Put to the foil to blemish.

校對:塞勒斯特