Foil vs Moil - What's the difference?
foil | moil |
To toil, to work hard.
* Francis Bacon
* Dryden
* {{quote-book, passage=There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.
, author=Robert W. Service
, title=(The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses)
, chapter=(The Cremation of Sam McGee)
, year=1907}}
To churn continually.
Hard work.
Confusion, turmoil.
A spot; a defilement.
* (rfdate) (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
(glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.
(glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed after annealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).
(glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.
As verbs the difference between foil and moil
is that foil is to apply the FOIL algorithm to while moil is to toil, to work hard.As nouns the difference between foil and moil
is that foil is a very thin sheet of metal while moil is hard work.As a proper noun FOIL
is a particular algorithm for multiplying two binomials.moil
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ; from the Proto-Indo-European root 'mel-', 'soft'.Verb
(en verb)- Moil not too much under ground.
- Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.
Noun
- The moil of death upon them.