Synonymer

Uttal

  • Uttal:
  • UttalUS:
ÖversättningKontextUttal
Verb
1.omintetgöra
2.foliera
3.kullkasta
4.gäcka
Substantiv
5.spår {ett}
  • Uttal
6.folie
7.florett {en}fäktning
8.aluminiumfolie {en}

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. A very thin sheet of metal.
  2. (hunting) The track of an animal.
  3. Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
  4. (uncountable) Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
  5. A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
  6. (figuratively) In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character.
  7. (figuratively) Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.
  8. (fencing) A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip
  9. A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation. See transparency.
  10. (heraldiccharge) A stylized flower or leaf.
  11. Shortened form of hydrofoil.
  12. Shortened form of aerofoil/airfoil.

Verb

  1. (obsolete) To defile; to soil.
  2. (mathematics) To multiply two binomials together.
  3. To prevent (something) from being accomplished.
  4. To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.
  5. To blunt; to dull; to spoil.
  6. (obsolete) To tread underfoot; to trample.

Exempel

  • As she a black silk cap on him began / To set, for foil of his milk-white to serve.
  • Hector has a foil to set him off.
  • Blunt as the fencer's foils, which hit, but hurt not.
  • Socrates contended with a foil against Demosthenes with a sword.
  • And by mortal man at length am foiled.
  • her long locks that foil the painter's power
  • First, former Toffee Mikel Arteta sent Walcott racing clear but instead of shooting he squared towards Ramsey, who was foiled by Tony Hibbert.
  • to foil the scent in hunting
  • King Richard [...] caused the ensigns of Leopold to be pulled down and foiled under foot.
  • Whom he did all to pieces breake and foyle, / In filthy durt, and left so in the loathely soyle.
  • Nor e'er was fate so near a foil.
  • [...]but after giving her a dodge, here's another b— follows me upon the foil.
  • aluminum foil, tin foil, plastic foil
  • Modern fencing as a sport consists of three categories: sabre, epee, and foil.
  • Sancho Panza served as a foil to Don Quixote, and similarly, Doctor Watson served as a foil to Sherlock Holmes.
  • The principal attack upon the Isle of Ré was foiled, and Buckingham forced an ignominious retreat.

Böjningsformer

PerfektparticipfoiledImperfektfoiled
PresensparticipfoilingPluralfoils
Tredje person singular indicativ presensfoilsTredje person singular indicativ presensfoileth

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