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Foil vs Hoodwink - What's the difference?

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Foil is a related term of hoodwink.


As verbs the difference between foil and hoodwink

is that 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 while hoodwink is (archaic) to cover the eyes with a hood; to blindfold.

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.

foil

English

Proper noun

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

    • External links

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    Verb

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

    • Anagrams

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    hoodwink

    English

    (wikipedia hoodwink)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To cover the eyes with a hood; to blindfold.
  • * , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1 p.81:
    • Some there are, that through feare anticipate the hangmans hand; as he did, whose friends having obtained his pardon, and putting away the cloth wherewith he was hood-winkt , that he might heare it read, was found starke dead upon the scaffold, wounded only by the stroke of imagination.
  • To deceive or trick.
    • I feel like the salesman hoodwinked me into buying right away.