Evade vs Foil - What's the difference?
evade | foil | Related terms |
To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument.
To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
Evade is a related term of foil.
As verbs the difference between evade and foil
is that evade is while foil is to prevent (something) from being accomplished or foil can be (mathematics) to multiply two binomials together or foil can be (obsolete) to defile; to soil.As a noun foil is
a very thin sheet of metal or foil can be failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage or foil can be (hunting) the track of an animal.evade
English
Verb
(evad)- The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of evading the Christian miracles. — .
- Evading from perils. — .
- Unarmed they might / Have easily, as spirits evaded swift / By quick contraction or remove. — .
- ''The ministers of God are not to evade and take refuge any of these ... ways. — .
