Hi, I'm working on a final English paper, and this sentence is kind of confusing to meWhat does the word foil exactly mean in this sentence? In what specific ways do you think that Mary Turner’s relationship with Moses in Doris Lessing’s 1950 novel The Grass is Singing is a foil to the conventional marital relationship between Mary and Dick Turner in the same novel?Thank you!
If using foil, you're taking a chance that the roll might stickParchment is just so easy to work withYou don't have to worry about anything sticking.
If you put the cake mixture directly into the pan it will stick with it, you can use the foil paper it helps you to get it out more easily and make the baking batter.
If you have wax paper use itThe foil might workDon't try making one without some kind of pan liner - it would fall to pieces when you try to roll it up.
Sorry to say the first four respondents are barking up the wrong treeThey're thinking of foil as a verb, but it's being used here as a nounSee definition three below: foil2 (foil) n1A thin, flexible leaf or sheet of metal: aluminum foil2A thin layer of polished metal placed under a displayed gem to lend it brilliance3One that by contrast underscores or enhances the distinctive characteristics of another: “I am resolved my husband shall not be a rival, but a foil to me” (Charlotte Bront?)4The reflective metal coating on the back of a glass mirror5ArchitectureA curvilinear, often lobelike figure or space formed between the cusps of intersecting arcs, found especially in Gothic tracery and Moorish ornament6.aAn airfoilbNauticalA hydrofoil-foil tr.vfoiled, foil·ing, foils1To cover or back with foil2To set off by contrast[Middle English, from Old French foille, from Latin folia, plof folium, leafSee bhel-3 below.] foil3 (foil) n1A fencing sword having a usually circular guard and a thin, flexible four-sided blade with a button on the tip to prevent injury2Often foilsThe art or sport of fencing with such a sword: a contest at foils[Origin unknown.]
