Crossword clues for perforate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perforate \Per"fo*rate\ (p[~e]r"f[-o]*r[asl]t), Perforated \Per"fo*ra`ted\ (p[~e]r"f[-o]*r[=a]"t[e^]d), a. Pierced with a hole or holes, or with pores; having transparent dots resembling holes.
Perforate \Per"fo*rate\ (p[~e]r"f[-o]*r[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Perforated (p[~e]r"f[-o]*r[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
Perforating.] [L. perforatus, p. p. of perforare to
perforate; per through + forare to bore. See Bore, v.]
To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument;
to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to
pierce or penetrate the surface of.
--Bacon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c. (implied in perforated), a back-formation from perforation or else from Latin perforatus, past participle of perforare "to bore through, pierce through." Related: Perforating.
Wiktionary
(context philately English) perforated v
1 to pierce; to penetrate 2 to make a line of holes in a thin material to allow separation at the line
WordNet
adj. having a hole cut through; "pierced ears"; "a perforated eardrum"; "a punctured balloon" [syn: pierced, perforated, punctured]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "perforate".
In the second station, the woman in the chair had her head secured in a perforated bathing cap while the beautician pulled tiny strands through the rubber with what looked like a crochet hook.
In Germany the Ariston player with thirty-six notes then the Hupfeld with sixty-one still no pneumatics till the Welte family patents its pneumatic Orchestrion operated with a perforated paper roll, in France Carpentier shows his Melograph and Melotrope to the French Academy, mechanical fingers brought to life by electromagnets and a perforated strip.
The reduced muzzle velocity was causing the shells to explode before penetrating the RAF airframes, and the cannon shells were fragmenting into such small pieces that the monocoque structures were often being perforated but not always shattered.
The front was, as I had once seen it in a dream, but a well-like wall, very high and very fragile-looking, perforated with paneless windows: no roof, no battlements, no chimneys -- all had crashed in.
Light-boxes glowed on the pair of claw-footed parquetry tables in the dim sitting room, low candlelight shining through the tiny pinpricks in the perforated tin housings.
It is believed that the spout of the oil-can must have passed under the zygoma to the base of the skull, perforating the great wing of the spheroid bone and penetrating the centrum ovale, injuring the anterior fibers of the motor tract in the internal capsule near the genu.
Planque speaks of a small bone perforating the esophagus and extracted through the skin.
Wirth, Fine, and Evers, all mention perforating wounds of the trachea and esophagus with recoveries.
Girard, Weeds, Meacham, Bacon, Fryer and others report cases of perforating gunshot wounds of the chest with recovery.
Schenck mentions a calculus perforating the bladder and lodging in the groin.
Geronimo mowed the Russians down, the Commando and SAR perforating their torsos, slaying them before they could fire a single shot.
Deep, perforating pain accompanies inflammation of the bones, or of their enveloping membranes.
The prosecretin might be thought of as resembling a perforated block of stamps.
Lord John Quetzal quickly fitted the perforated cap down over the bowl, locked it in place, and picked up the thurible by its clutch of chains.
And he can tell you offhand, not only their worth in the normal perforated and canceled condition, but also how their values vary if they are uncanceled, unperforated, embossed, rouletted, surcharged with all manner of initials, printed by mistake with the king standing on his head, or water-marked anything from a horn of plenty to the seven lean kine of Egypt.