Crossword clues for perforated
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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.
Wiktionary
1 Pierced with holes. 2 ''Specifically'', having a series of holes enabling easy tearing along a straight line. v
(en-past of: perforate)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "perforated".
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.
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.
After the wool has been through these scouring liquors it is thrown on a scray to drain, and is next placed in cisterns which have perforated false bottoms.
In the eighteenth century decorative flea traps were devised - perforated tubes worn on cords around the neck containing sticky tubes or a blood-soaked cloth to trap the fleas.
He opened it and took out a perforated piece of iron, like a bit of unsharpened knife-blade hung on a string.
Despite all the malicious provocations, supported or at least connived at by Varn and the rest of the Dekkan Planetary Council, despite the brutal stupidity of the PDI, even despite being perforated by a chunk of metal that had made a jigsaw puzzle of his elbow joint, Johnson was holding a full two steps down from the intensity of response that the rules of engagement now permitted.
An Alabamian had his shoe knocked off, another had his canteen perforated, a third lost his shoulder strap.
Living Space USS Archerfish South of Karlskrona Baltic Sea Chief Monday awoke to find himself looking up at a perforated, off-white acoustic ceiling not two feet over his head.
When Katya and Leonid caught up at the third car, Ivan had boosted Josef over the perforated roof onto the tilted side.