Perforate
['pɜːfəreɪt] or ['pɝfə'ret]
Definition
(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.
(a.) Alt. of Perforated
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Pierce, penetrate, bore, transfix, drill, bore through.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Bored, pierced, drilled
ANT:Unpierced, imperforate
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Definition
v.t. to bore through: to pierce: to make a hole through.—adj. Per′forable capable of being perforated.—n. Per′forans the long flexor muscle of the toes or the deep flexor muscle of the fingers.—adjs. Per′forant perforating; Per′forate -d (bot.) pierced with holes: having transparent dots as the leaves of certain flowers.—n. Perforā′tion act of boring through: a hole through or into anything.—adj. Per′forātive having power to pierce.—ns. Per′forātor one who bores or an instrument for boring; Per′forātus the short flexor of the toes or the superficial flexor of the fingers.
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Examples
- An expert clerk could perforate such a tape at the rate of fifty to sixty words per minute. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A cylindrical tube with a perforated end contained the liquid. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The wet sheets of rubber are cut in square pieces, placed on perforated tin pans and loaded into the dryer, which will hold about eight hundred pounds of rubber. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The precipice on the opposite side of the canyon is well perforated with the small holes they dug in the rock to live in. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- To this end the burner portion through which the wick passed was perforated at its base to create a proper draft, and later the cap over the base was also perforated. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Instead of punching Morse characters in the transmission tape however, it was perforated with a series of small round holes forming Roman letters. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The perforated strips were prepared in thirty minutes by ten persons, and duplicated by nine copyists. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In operation the perforated tape is placed on the transmission drum, and the chemically prepared tape on the receiving drum. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It involved mechanical complications that seemed to be insurmountable, and up to the time Edison invented his perforating machine no really good method was available. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In practice, there was employed such a number of perforating machines as the exigencies of business demanded. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This was accomplished by making a chain of articulated cards, like a slatted belt, and perforating these cards with varying arrangements of holes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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