FOIL
verb C1- To apply the FOIL algorithm to.
He/she/it FOILs · Past FOILed · Past participle FOILed · -ing form FOILing
Verb forms
- Base form
- foil
- He/she/it
- foils
- Past
- foiled
- Past participle
- foiled
- -ing form
- foiling
From the library
The crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between layers of lead foil.
“I feel a foil as quick and supple as my own.
There were collected and piled up all Albert’s successive caprices, hunting-horns, bass-viols, flutes—a whole orchestra, for Albert had had not a taste but a fancy for music; easels, palettes, brushes, pencils—for music had been succeeded by painting; foils, boxing-gloves, broadswords, and single-sticks—for, following the example of the fashionable young men of the time, Albert de Morcerf cultivated, with far more perseverance than music and drawing, the three arts that complete a dandy’s education, i.e., fencing, boxing, and single-stick; and it was here that he received Grisier, Cooks, and Charles Leboucher.
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