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(noun) transparency
picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector
(noun) hydrofoil
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
(noun) enhancer
anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities
pretty girls like plain friends as foils
(verb) spoil, scotch, queer, thwart, bilk, baffle, frustrate, cross
hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge; foil your opponent