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Flummox vs Foil - What's the difference?

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Flummox is a related term of foil.


As verbs the difference between flummox and foil

is that flummox is to confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast 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.

flummox

English

Verb

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  • To confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast.
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  • , year=2011 , date=January 22 , author= , title=Man Utd 5 - 0 Birmingham , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=With United's movement flummoxing the visitors, Berbatov saw his low shot saved well by Ben Foster on his first return to Old Trafford. }}

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    foil

    English

    Proper noun

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

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