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v. To pierce, punch, or bore a hole or holes in; penetrate.

v. To pierce or stamp with rows of holes, as those between postage stamps, to allow easy separation.

verb-intransitive. To pass into or through something.

adj. Having been perforated.

adj. Perforated.

v. To pierce; to penetrate.

v. To make a line of holes in a thin material to allow separation at the line.

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.

adj. Pierced with a hole or holes, or with pores; having transparent dots resembling holes.

To bore through; pierce; make a hole or holes in, as by boring or driving.

Synonyms Bore through, Pierce, etc. See penetrate.

Bored or pierced through: penetrated.

Specifically— In botany, pierced with one or more small holes, or, more commonly, having translucent dots which resemble holes, as in most plants of the order Hypericineæ.

In ornithology, noting the nostril of a bird when lacking a nasal septum, so that a hole appears from side to side of the bill, as in the turkey-buzzard, crane, etc.

In anatomy, open; opened through; affording passage or communication; having the character or quality of a perforation; forminate

In zoology, full of little holes or perforations; cribrose; foraminulate; specifically, of or pertaining to the Perforata: as, a perforate coral; a perforate foraminifer.

Of the shells of gastropod mollusks, having a tubular cavity extending through the columella from the umbilicus to the apex: contrasted with imperforate, in which case the columella is solid.

v. pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance

v. make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation

adj. having a hole cut through

"It is probably derived from a root meaning "to bore," "perforate," and hence denotes perforated wind instruments of all kinds."

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perforated    perforates    perforating   

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perforate elytra   

punch    drill   

perforated    perforating    perforator    perforation   

penetrate    pierce    foraminate    terebrate    riddle    tunnel    trepan    trepanize    transforate    prickle   

corrugated    conical    rectangular    ceramic    concave    air-tight    invert    outer    metallic    porous