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Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having a hole or holes, especially a row of small holes.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as perforate.
- By extension, cut through in many places and with irregular and somewhat large openings. Compare à jour.
- In heraldry, same as cleché.
- Posterior, a deep fossa situated track of the corpora albicantia, and between the crura cerebri, perforated by numerous holes for the passage of blood-vessels.
Wiktionary
- adj. Pierced with holes.
- adj. Specifically, having a series of holes enabling easy tearing along a straight line.
- v. simple past tense and past participle of perforate.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having a hole cut through
- adj. having a number or series of holes
Etymologies
- Latin perforāre, perforāt- : per-, per- + forāre, to bore.
Examples
“Churinga, over a foot in length, they tell us, are not usually perforated; many churinga are not perforated, many are: _but the Arunta do not know why some are perforated_.”
“There is a legend that, of old, men hung up the perforated churinga on the sacred _Nurtunja_ pole: and so they still have _perforated_ stone churinga, not usually more than a foot in length.”
“a _Cobweb_, which yet, with the _Microscope_, I could plainly perceive [7] to be _perforated_, both by looking on the _ends_ of it, and by looking on it _against the light_ which was much the _easier way_ to determine whether it were solid or perforated; for, taking a small pipe of glass, and closing one end of it, then filling it _half full_ of water, and holding it”
“The 77-year-old leader had been in hospital since November 1 when he underwent an operation for what was officially described as a perforated intestine, but which independent newspapers have said was cancer of the digestive system.”
“Several looks were "perforated" with big hollowed-out circles as well as sweaters with (transparent) stripes and slits.”
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“The diagnosis of acute abdominal inflammation is non specific, but most likely describes a catastrophic event such as perforated or clotted off bowel, or pancreatitis.”
“Drainage facilities, such as perforated pipes, troughs or culverts, allow hydraulic filter bed cleaning.”
“These "perforated" rings will be introduced by the same method into the saturated rock under the water table (See 6.28).”
“Ruota," behind which a voice spoke mysteriously as through a telephone, the wooden shelf turning on itself and offering us a key -- key opening (by instructions of mysterious voice) an adjacent small room: two straw chairs on either side of small table before a thick black grating; another grating behind that, and a kind of perforated shutter between.”
“Ornaments of silver, such as perforated coins, are much used in adorning the men's pigtails, and coral and malachite ornaments are also common in Tibet for the same purpose, and are much valued by the natives.”
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