foil
A very thin sheet of metal.
Other meanings
A very thin sheet of plastic.
Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
“wrap the sandwich up in foil”
A kind of
- sheet metal
Kinds of foil
- aluminum foil
- gold foil
- tin foil
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "folia".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “foil” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.