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According to WordNet, the noun "foil" has 5 sense(s).

103375956 picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector.

103553019 a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through; "the fins of a fish act as hydrofoils".

103375575 a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button.

103375694 a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; "the photographic film was wrapped in foil".

105853924 anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities; "pretty girls like plain friends as foils".

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