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Hindi Word पन्नी Meaning in English - Foil - पन्नी अंग्रेज़ी में अर्थ

पन्नी Meaning in English is Foil, which is also written as 'Pannī' in Roman. Other Pannī Meanings in English include Antithesis, Background, Complement, Defense, Guard and Setting etc.

Definitions of Foil

n. Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.

n. A blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point.

n. The track or trail of an animal.

n. A leaf or very thin sheet of metal

n. A thin leaf of sheet copper silvered and burnished, and afterwards coated with transparent colors mixed with isinglass; -- employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy to pastes and inferior stones.

n. Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage.

n. A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection.

n. The space between the cusps in Gothic architecture; a rounded or leaflike ornament, in windows, niches, etc. A group of foils is called trefoil, quatrefoil, quinquefoil, etc., according to the number of arcs of which it is composed.

transitive v. To tread under foot; to trample.

transitive v. To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.

transitive v. To blunt; to dull; to spoil.

transitive v. To defile; to soil.

Form Verb (used With Object)

How To Spell Foil [foil]

Origin of Foil Middle English (in the sense ‘trample down’): perhaps from Old French fouler ‘to full cloth, trample’, based on Latin fullo ‘fuller’. Compare with full.

Synonyms For Foil , Similar to Foil

Antonyms For Foil , Opposite to Foil