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Laminate vs Foil - What's the difference?

laminate | foil |

As nouns the difference between laminate and foil

is that laminate is 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.

laminate

English

Verb

(laminat)
  • To assemble from thin sheets glued together.
  • * We'll laminate the piece of wood with grain going in different directions to make a really strong hull for the boat.
  • To cover something flat, usually paper, in adhesive protective plastic.
  • To form, as metal, into a thin plate, as by rolling.
  • To cause to separate into thin plates or layers; to divide into thin plates.
  • Noun

    (wikipedia laminate) (en noun)
  • Material formed of thin sheets glued together.
  • Derived terms

    * laminate flooring

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Consisting of, or covered with, laminae, or thin plates, scales, or layers, one over another; laminated.
  • Anagrams

    * English heteronyms ----

    foil

    English

    Proper noun

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

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

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