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Flee vs Foil - What's the difference?

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In transitive terms the difference between flee and foil

is that flee is to escape from while foil is to apply the FOIL algorithm to.

As verbs the difference between flee and foil

is that flee is to run away; to escape while FOIL is to apply the FOIL algorithm to.

As a proper noun FOIL is

a particular algorithm for multiplying two binomials.

As a noun foil is

a very thin sheet of metal.

flee

English

Verb

  • (label) To run away; to escape.
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    • , passage=As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.}}
  • (label) To escape from.
  • (label) To disappear quickly; to vanish.

    • Related terms

    * flight

    Anagrams

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    foil

    English

    Proper noun

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

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    Verb

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

    • Anagrams

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