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foil
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f??l/
- Rhymes: -??l
Etymology 1
From Middle English foil, foille, from Old French fueille (“plant leaf”), from Late Latin folia, the plural of folium, mistaken as a singular feminine. Doublet of folio and folium.
Noun
foil (countable and uncountable, plural foils)
- A very thin sheet of metal.
- (uncountable) Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
- A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
- (authorship, figuratively) 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.
- (figuratively) Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.
- As she a black silk cap on him begun / To set, for foil of his milk-white to serve.
- 1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey
- Hector has also a foil to set regard
- (fencing) A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip
- 1784-1810, William Mitford, History of Greece
- Socrates contended with a foil against Demosthenes with a sword.
- 1784-1810, William Mitford, History of Greece
- A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation. See transparency.
- (heraldry) A stylized flower or leaf.
- A hydrofoil.
- An aerofoil/airfoil.
Synonyms
- (thin aluminium/aluminum): aluminium foil, silver foil, silver paper, tin foil
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
foil (third-person singular simple present foils, present participle foiling, simple past and past participle foiled)
- (transitive) To cover or wrap with foil.
Etymology 2
From Middle English foilen (“spoil a scent trail by crossing it”), from Old French fouler (“tread on, trample”), ultimately from Latin full? (“I trample, I full”).
Verb
foil (third-person singular simple present foils, present participle foiling, simple past and past participle foiled)
- To prevent (something) from being accomplished.
- To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.
- And by mortal man at length am foil'd.
- To blunt; to dull; to spoil.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)
- (obsolete) To tread underfoot; to trample.
- 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes
- King Richard […] caused the ensigns of Leopold to be pulled down and foiled underfoot.
- Whom he did all to pieces breake and foyle, / In filthy durt, and left so in the loathely soyle.
- 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes
Synonyms
- (prevent from being accomplished): put the kibosh on, scupper, thwart
Translations
Noun
foil (plural foils)
- Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
- 1685, John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis
- Nor e'er was fate so near a foil.
- 1685, John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis
- One of the incorrect answers presented in a multiple-choice test.
Etymology 3
From French foulis.
Noun
foil (plural foils)
- (hunting) The track of an animal.
Synonyms
- (track of an animal): spoor
Translations
Etymology 4
From mnemonic acronym FOIL (“First Outside Inside Last”).
Verb
foil (third-person singular simple present foils, present participle foiling, simple past and past participle foiled)
- (mathematics) To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.
Translations
Etymology 5
See file.
Verb
foil (third-person singular simple present foils, present participle foiling, simple past and past participle foiled)
- (obsolete) To defile; to soil.
Anagrams
- Filo, LIFO, filo, lo-fi, lofi
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin folium. Compare fueille, from the plural of folium, folia.
Noun
foil m (oblique plural fouz or foilz, nominative singular fouz or foilz, nominative plural foil)
- leaf (green appendage of a plant which photosynthesizes)
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block
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bl?k/
- (General American) IPA(key): /bl?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
- Homophone: bloc
Etymology 1
From Middle English blok (“log, stump, solid piece”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch blok (“treetrunk”), from Old Dutch *blok (“log”), from Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukk? (“beam, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?el?- (“thick plank, beam, pile, prop”). Cognate with Old Frisian blok, Old Saxon blok, Old High German bloh, bloc (“block”), Old English bolca (“gangway of a ship, plank”), Old Norse b?lkr (“divider, partition”). More at balk. See also bloc.
Noun
block (plural blocks)
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- a block of ice, a block of stone
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- Anne Boleyn placed her head on the block and awaited her execution.
- You young porkers who are sitting in front of me, every one of you will scream your lives out at the block within a year.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 13
- Next morning, Monday, after disposing of the embalmed head to a barber, for a block, I settled my own and comrade’s bill; using, however, my comrade’s money.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 13
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- (printing, dated) A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- 1833, The Gospel Anchor (volume 2, page 371)
- She said, 'I hope I shall not be left to kill myself, but It would be no more sin to kill me, than to put a block on the fire.'
- 2012, Ron Herrett, Shorty's Story
- Dawn and Shorty would cut this tree into blocks, while Randy and Matt went back for more. Dawn and Shorty made a good team on the crosscut, so when another log arrived, the first was almost completely made into shake wood.
- 1833, The Gospel Anchor (volume 2, page 371)
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- a block of 100 tickets
- (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- a block of text, a block of colour, a block of land
- (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- (viticulture) A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- a block of data, a block of seven days, a block reservation
- (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
- (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
- (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- (rail transport) A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
- (computing) A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- I'm going for a walk around the block.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- The place you are looking for is two long blocks east and one short block north.
- A large, roughly cuboid building.
- a block of flats, an office block, a tower block
- A cellblock.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- Synonyms: barrier, blockage, obstruction
- There's a block in the pipe that means the water can't get through.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- a mental block
- writer's block
- (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- (cricket) A blockhole.
- (cricket) The popping crease.
- (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- Synonyms: stuff, roof, wall
- (Wiktionary and WMF jargon) A type of temporary or permanent ban which automatically prevents the blocked user from editing pages of a particular wiki.
- (slang) The human head.
- I'll knock your block off!
- (Britain) Solitary confinement.
- (obsolete) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:head
- city block
Related terms
- bloc
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
Verb
block (third-person singular simple present blocks, present participle blocking, simple past and past participle blocked)
- (transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- The pipe is blocked.
- (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- A broken-down car is blocking the traffic.
- (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- His plan to take over the business was blocked by the boss.
- (transitive, sports) To impede (an opponent or opponent's play).
- He blocked the basketball player's shot.
- The offensive linemen tried to block the blitz.
- (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play).
- It was very difficult to block this scene convincingly.
- (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
- (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
- (transitive) To disable communication via telephone, instant messaging, etc. with (someone undesirable).
- I tried to send you a message, but you've blocked me!
- (Wiktionary and WMF jargon, transitive) To place, on a user of a wiki, a type of temporary or permanent ban which automatically prevents the recipient from editing pages of the wiki.
- (computing, intransitive) To wait.
- When the condition expression is false, the thread blocks on the condition variable.
- (transitive) To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.
- I blocked the mittens by wetting them and pinning them to a shaped piece of cardboard.
- (transitive) To shape or sketch out roughly.
- When drawing a scene, first block the main features, and then fill in the detail.
- (transitive, slang, obsolete) To knock (a person's hat) down over their eyes.
- Synonym: bonnet
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
block
- Misspelling of bloc.
Manx
Etymology
Borrowed from English block.
Noun
block m (genitive singular bluick)
- block, log, cake (of soap)
Derived terms
- block-lettyr
Mutation
Spanish
Etymology
From English block. Doublet of bloc and bloque.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?blok/, [?blok]
Noun
block m (plural blocks)
- (Guatemala) cement block
- Synonym: bloque de cemento
Swedish
Etymology
From Middle Low German block, from Old Saxon blok, from Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukk?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bl?k/
Noun
block n
- a block, a boulder, a cuboid (of ice, wood, rock)
- a block, a pad, a notebook
- a block, a pulley
- a block, a piece of data storage
- a bloc (of voters or countries)
Declension
Related terms
- anteckningsblock
- blädderblock
- blockad
- blockbaserad
- blockera
- blockstorlek
- diskblock
- flyttblock
- isblock
- skrivblock
- stenblock
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