English
Etymology
From tin + foil.
Noun
tinfoil (countable and uncountable, plural tinfoils)
- A thin, pliable sheet of tin or an alloy of tin and lead, used as a protective wrapping.
- (informal) Aluminium foil.
Derived terms
Translations
tinfoil
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 錫紙 / 锡纸 (sek3 zi2)
- Mandarin: 錫箔 / 锡箔 (zh) (xībó)
- Czech: staniol m
- Danish: stanniol n or c, sølvpapir n
- Faroese: silvurpappír n, súllpappír n
- Finnish: lehtitina, stannioli (fi), tinafolio
- French: papier d'étain (fr) m, papier d’aluminium (fr) m
- German: Alufolie (de) f
- Greek: αλουμινόχαρτο (el) n (alouminócharto)
- Icelandic: álpappír (is) m
- Japanese: 錫箔 (ja) (すずはく, suzuhaku)
- Korean: 석박(錫箔) (seokbak)
- Polish: cynfolia (pl) f, staniol (pl) m
- Russian: станиоль (ru) m (staniolʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: sgragall m
- Spanish: papel de estaño m, papel aluminio (es) m, papel de plata m, papel estaño m, papel metálico m albal m, papel albal m
- Swedish: stanniol (sv) c pl
- Tagalog: palara
- Yiddish: זילבערפּאַפּיר n (zilberpapir)
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Verb
tinfoil (third-person singular simple present tinfoils, present participle tinfoiling, simple past and past participle tinfoiled)
- (transitive) To cover in tinfoil.