foiling
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- noun
- /ˈfɔɪlɪŋ/
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frustración
- Her quick thinking led to the foiling of the scheme before it could cause any harm.
Examples
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The first foiling exercise for USA-17 should have been the news of the day, even though the breeze was mild, the "flight" was brief, and it took the big sail to get her up.
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Oracle Team USA was the first to tease us with a full-foiling catamaran months ago when it revealed an AC45 flying above the water on test-version-only foils...
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Oh, and check out that foiling in the top left; it's even nicer in real life.
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"It depends on the ARC (for instance, fancy things like foiling or embossing or glossy covers tend to add cost), but from $16 to $20 is a pretty normal range.
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I have a teensy 12-square embellished wall hanging that surely took more than 100 hours to make, plus all batiks, copper, foiling, custom threads, and beads.
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The police were praised for their successful foiling of the bank robbery plans.
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The intelligence agency reported the foiling of several cyber attacks aimed at critical infrastructure.
Synonyms
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Something that stops or slows progress and makes a task hard
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Stopping someone's plans so they cannot happen
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Stopping someone from doing what they planned
Something that makes progress slow or difficult
Antonyms
How Preventive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Foiling is connected to the word foil, a thin sheet of metal like kitchen foil, and a helpful way to remember it is to picture someone wrapping a plan in foil to block it. So, to foil someone is to 'stop' or 'prevent' their plan from working.