foil lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• a sword used in the sport of fencing
• a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button
• a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal "the photographic film was wrapped in foil"
• picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector
• 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"
• anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities "pretty girls like plain friends as foils"
• cover or back with foil "foil mirrors"
• hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge" "foil your opponent"
• enhance by contrast "In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background"