"tinfoil" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: tinfoils [plural]
Etymology: tin + foil Etymology templates: {{compound|en|tin|foil}} tin + foil Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} tinfoil (countable and uncountable, plural tinfoils)
  1. A thin, pliable sheet of tin or an alloy of tin and lead, used as a protective wrapping. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-tinfoil-en-noun-RX9V-2oj
  2. (informal) aluminium foil Tags: countable, informal, uncountable
    Sense id: en-tinfoil-en-noun-DvfDO4Ow Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 96 2
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: tin foil, tin-foil Derived forms: tinfoil hat Related terms: tin can Translations (tinfoil): 錫紙 (Chinese Cantonese), 锡纸 (sek³ zi²) (Chinese Cantonese), 錫箔 (Chinese Mandarin), 锡箔 (xībó) (Chinese Mandarin), staniol [masculine] (Czech), stanniol [common-gender, neuter] (Danish), sølvpapir [neuter] (Danish), silvurpappír [neuter] (Faroese), súllpappír [neuter] (Faroese), lehtitina (Finnish), stannioli (Finnish), tinafolio (Finnish), papier d’étain [masculine] (French), papier d’aluminium [masculine] (French), Alufolie [feminine] (German), αλουμινόχαρτο (alouminócharto) [neuter] (Greek), álpappír [masculine] (Icelandic), 錫箔 (suzuhaku) (alt: すずはく) (Japanese), 석박 (seokbak) (alt: 錫箔) (Korean), cynfolia [feminine] (Polish), staniol [masculine] (Polish), станиоль (staniolʹ) [masculine] (Russian), sgragall [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), papel de estaño [masculine] (Spanish), papel aluminio [masculine] (Spanish), papel de plata [masculine] (Spanish), stanniol [plural] (Swedish), palara (Tagalog), זילבערפּאַפּיר (zilberpapir) [neuter] (Yiddish)
Disambiguation of 'tinfoil': 0 0

Verb [English]

Forms: tinfoils [present, singular, third-person], tinfoiling [participle, present], tinfoiled [participle, past], tinfoiled [past]
Etymology: tin + foil Etymology templates: {{compound|en|tin|foil}} tin + foil Head templates: {{en-verb}} tinfoil (third-person singular simple present tinfoils, present participle tinfoiling, simple past and past participle tinfoiled)
  1. (transitive) To cover in tinfoil. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-tinfoil-en-verb-4kk1nXNq

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.