foil
- noun
- /fɔɪl/
- Archaic
- The artist used a transparent foil to project her colorful drawings onto the wall.
Examples
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The teacher showed us how to use a foil to display our images during the science exhibition.
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A pellicle mirror is like plastic foil.
Blog text (11) -
The whole thing is made of cardboard and sheathed in some kind of see-through foil.
Fiction book (1994) -
The poster is printed digitally with a foil stamp on top, a very nice way of literally enriching the typically lackluster digital output.
Blog text (28) -
The poster is offset printed with UV inks and a foil stamp on top, a very nice way of enriching an already rich output.
Blog text (28) -
If you can't afford to do a 10-color screen print or offset run, a quality digital print with an embellishment such as foil stamping can be just as effective.
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When presenting the photographs, she placed a layer of foil beneath them to enhance their visibility.
Synonyms
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6.3
A picture on clear film for a projector
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5.3
A clear sheet put on a projector to show writing
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Foil in the sense of a thin transparent sheet is the same idea as a 'leaf' of material you can put an image on for a projector, coming from the Latin folium 'leaf'; so a projector foil is just a very thin 'sheet' that carries a picture.