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foil

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

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"

enhance by contrast; "In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background"

Synonyms:

• Roscius,
• actor,
• actress,
• antagonist,
• antipode,
• antipodes,
• antipole,
• antithesis,
• antonym,
• background,
• background detail,
• bad guy,
• baffle,
• bafflement,
• balk,
• balking,
• barnstormer,
• beat,
• bilbo,
• bilk,
• blast,
• brave,
• broadsword,
• buffalo,
• cast down,
• challenge,
• character,
• character actor,
• character man,
• character woman,
• check,
• checkmate,
• child actor,
• circumvent,
• claymore,
• coat,
• coating,
• collop,
• confound,
• confounding,
• confront,
• confusion,
• contra,
• contravene,
• converse,
• counter,
• counteract,
• counterbalance,
• countercheck,
• countermand,
• counterpoint,
• counterpoise,
• counterpole,
• counterterm,
• counterwork,
• covering,
• cross,
• curb,
• cut,
• cutlass,
• dash,
• daunt,
• deal,
• deceive,
• decorative composition,
• decorative style,
• defeat,
• defeat expectation,
• defy,
• design,
• destroy,
• detail,
• disappoint,
• discomfit,
• discomfiture,
• disconcert,
• disconcertion,
• discountenance,
• diseur,
• diseuse,
• dish,
• disillusion,
• disk,
• disrupt,
• dissatisfy,
• dramatizer,
• elude,
• embarrass,
• epee,
• evade,
• falchion,
• faze,
• feeder,
• feuille,
• figure,
• film,
• flake,
• flap,
• flummox,
• foiling,
• fold,
• foreground detail,
• form,
• frustrate,
• frustration,
• get around,
• get round,
• give the runaround,
• give the slip,
• glaive,
• go one better,
• hamper,
• heavy,
• histrio,
• histrion,
• impede,
• ingenue,
• inverse,
• juvenile,
• knock the chocks,
• lamella,
• lamina,
• laminated glass,
• laminated wood,
• lamination,
• lap,
• layer,
• leaf,
• let down,
• matinee idol,
• membrane,
• mime,
• mimer,
• mimic,
• monologist,
• motif,
• mummer,
• national style,
• nonplus,
• nullify,
• obverse,
• offset,
• opposite,
• opposite number,
• ornamental motif,
• outfigure,
• outflank,
• outgeneral,
• outguess,
• outmaneuver,
• outplay,
• outreach,
• outsmart,
• outwit,
• overreach,
• pane,
• panel,
• pantomime,
• pantomimist,
• parry,
• pass the buck,
• patina,
• pattern,
• peel,
• pellicle,
• period style,
• perplex,
• plait,
• plank,
• plate,
• plating,
• playactor,
• player,
• ply,
• plywood,
• protean actor,
• rapier,
• rasher,
• rattle,
• rebuff,
• reciter,
• repeated figure,
• repulse,
• restrain,
• reversal,
• reverse,
• rout,
• ruin,
• saber,
• sabotage,
• safety glass,
• scale,
• scimitar,
• scotch,
• scum,
• setback,
• setoff,
• setting,
• sheet,
• skin,
• slab,
• slat,
• slice,
• soubrette,
• spike,
• spoil,
• stage performer,
• stage player,
• stonewall,
• stooge,
• straight man,
• stroller,
• strolling player,
• stump,
• style,
• table,
• tablet,
• tantalize,
• tease,
• the contrary,
• the other side,
• theatrical,
• theme,
• thespian,
• thwart,
• thwarting,
• touch,
• trouper,
• tuck,
• upset,
• utility man,
• veneer,
• victimize,
• villain,
• vis-a-vis,
• wafer