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Fiasco vs Foil - What's the difference?

fiasco | foil |

As nouns the difference between fiasco and foil

is that fiasco is a ludicrous or humiliating situation some effort that went quite wrong while 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.

As a verb 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.

fiasco

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A ludicrous or humiliating situation. Some effort that went quite wrong.
  • A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket.

    • Synonyms

    * (ludicrous or humiliating situation) (l)

    See also

    * fiasci (hypercorrect plural) * fiaschi

    References

    * Concise Oxford Dictionary, s. v. fiasco. * Compact Oxford English Dictionary on-line. * The Word Detective, Issue of Oct 30, 2001. ----

    foil

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A particular algorithm for multiplying two binomials.

    • External links

    * (projectlink)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To apply the FOIL algorithm to.

    • Anagrams

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