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Definition of Perforate
1. Adjective. Having a hole cut through. "A punctured balloon"
2. Verb. Make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation. "Perforate the sheets of paper"
Generic synonyms: Pierce
Derivative terms: Perforation, Perforation, Punch, Puncher
3. Verb. Pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance. "The bullet penetrated her chest"
Specialized synonyms: Dig Into, Poke Into, Probe, Cut, Interpenetrate, Permeate, Strike, Break, Foray, Poke Into, Creep In, Sneak In, Diffuse, Imbue, Interpenetrate, Penetrate, Permeate, Pervade, Riddle, Honeycomb, Pierce, Pierce, Thrust, Pierce, Tunnel, Filter, Percolate, Permeate, Sink In, Grain, Ingrain, Immerse, Plunge, Force, Storm, Ooze Through
Generic synonyms: Come In, Enter, Get In, Get Into, Go In, Go Into, Move Into
Derivative terms: Penetrator, Perforation
Definition of Perforate
1. v. t. 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.
2. a. Pierced with a hole or holes, or with pores; having transparent dots resembling holes.
Definition of Perforate
1. Adjective. (philately) Perforated. ¹
2. Verb. To pierce; to penetrate. ¹
3. Verb. To make a line of holes in a thin material to allow separation at the line. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Perforate
1. [v -RATED, -RATING, -RATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perforate
Literary usage of Perforate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Characters—Tests of the larger species arenaceous, either with or without a
perforate calcareous basis; smaller forms hyaline and conspicuously perforated. ..."
2. English Synonymes Explained: In Alphabetical Order ; with Copious by George Crabb (1883)
"To perforate and bore are modes of piercing that vary in the circumstances of
the action, and the objects acted upon ; to pierre, in ils peculiar use, ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"Of ancient North Americans the percentage of perforate bones out of 300 ...
In one collection from the Gila Valley, in Arizona, 48 perforate bones were ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Example of a branched adherent calcareous perforate ... 6, b, b, b, perforate
surface« of tin primary wall of four tiers of chambers, from which the ..."
5. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Lewellys Franklin Barker, Milton Howard Fussell, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"Uncomplicated defects of the septum have been found post mortem in subjects as
old as fifty years. 3. perforate Foramen Ovale Uncomplicated perforate ..."
6. Report by Oklahoma Adjutant-general's office (1859)
"As the little pin-holes which they perforate scarcely diminish the strength of
the timber in the least, they are deemed of no consequence. ..."
7. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1898)
"NOTE ON A MODERATOR BAND IN THE LEFT VENTRICLE AND A perforate SEPTUM OVALE ...
perforate SEPTUM OVALE. Another point of interest in the same heart was the ..."
8. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1876)
"... are quite concentric and enclosing, unlike any other known Foraminifer.
f Shells of the perforate or Hyaline Foraminifera. ..."
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