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GOLD FOIL

Pronunciation (US):

• GOLD FOIL (noun)
The noun GOLD FOIL has 1 sense:

1. foil made of gold

Familiarity information: GOLD FOIL used as a noun is very rare.

• GOLD FOIL (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Foil made of gold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("gold foil" is a kind of...):

foil (a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal)

Meronyms (substance of "gold foil"):

atomic number 79; Au; gold (a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gold foil"):

gold leaf (a very thin form of gold foil)

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(English proverb)
"All plants are our brothers and sisters. They talk to us and if we listen, we can hear them."
(Native American proverb, Arapaho)
"Who does, pays."
(Catalan proverb)
"He who studies does not waste his time."
(Corsican proverb)

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