perforated

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Related to perforated: perforated eardrum, perforated ulcer

per·fo·ra·ted

(pûr′fə-rā′tĭd)

adj.

Having a hole or holes, especially a row of small holes.

perforated

(ˈpɜːfəˌreɪtɪd)

adj

1. pierced with one or more holes

2. (Philately) (esp of stamps) having perforations. Abbreviation: perf

per•fo•rat•ed

(ˈpɜr fəˌreɪ tɪd)

also perforate

adj.

1. pierced with a hole or holes.

2. (of a stamp) having closely spaced perforations along its edges.

3. marked by perforation: a perforated ulcer.

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Adj.	1.	perforated - having a hole cut through; "pierced ears"; "a perforated eardrum"; "a punctured balloon" perforate, pierced, punctured cut - separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument; "the cut surface was mottled"; "cut tobacco"; "blood from his cut forehead"; "bandages on her cut wrists"
	2.	perforated - having a number or series of holes; "a perforated steel plate"; "perforated cancellation"; "perforated stamp" cut - separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument; "the cut surface was mottled"; "cut tobacco"; "blood from his cut forehead"; "bandages on her cut wrists"

Translations

مَثْقوب، مُخَرَّم

perforovaný

perforiert

ajouré perforé

átlyukasztottperforált

gataîur

gjennomhullet perforert

perforovaný

delikli

穿孔的

perforated

[ˈpɜːfəreɪtɪd]

A. ADJ [stamp] → dentado

B. CPD perforated line N → línea f perforada
perforated ulcer N (Med) → úlcera f perforada

perforated

[ˈpɜː^rfəreɪtɪd] adj [eardrum, bowel] → perforé(e)

[plastic, metal] → perforé(e)perforated ulcer n → ulcère perforé

perforate

(ˈpəːfəreit) verb

to make a hole or holes in, especially a line of small holes in paper, so that it may be torn easily. Sheets of postage stamps are perforated.

ˈperforated adjective

ˌperfoˈration noun

1. a small hole, or a number or line of small holes, made in a sheet of paper etc. The purpose of the perforation(s) is to make the paper easier to tear.

2. the act of perforating or being perforated.

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The lonely bay of Nukuheva, dotted here and there with the black hulls of the vessels composing the French squadron, lay reposing at the base of a circular range of elevations, whose verdant sides, perforated with deep glens or diversified with smiling valleys, formed altogether the loveliest view I ever beheld, and were I to live a hundred years, I shall never forget the feeling of admiration which I then experienced.

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It is singular, but I never loved all that; for my part, however active and sober I might be (you know if I was so, Athos), however simple I might appear in my clothes, I would not the less have preferred the braveries and embroideries of Porthos to my little perforated cassock, which gave passage to the wind in winter and the sun in summer.

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He was only a young man, and a dandy at that, his face blackened with charcoal, his hair whitened with wood-ashes, with the freshly severed tail of a wild pig thrust through his perforated nose, and two more thrust through his ears.

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And it was blim, blam, blim, six times an' twice over, with his two big horse-pistols, an' the house perforated like a cullender.

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As I had asked for a night-light, the chamberlain had brought me in, before he left me, the good old constitutional rush-light of those virtuous days - an object like the ghost of a walking-cane, which instantly broke its back if it were touched, which nothing could ever be lighted at, and which was placed in solitary confinement at the bottom of a high tin tower, perforated with round holes that made a staringly wide-awake pattern on the walls.

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The Nautilus then rested on the bed of ice, which was not one yard thick, and which the sounding leads had perforated in a thousand places.

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It was a bookmark of perforated cardboard, with a gorgeous red and yellow worsted goblet worked on it, and below, in green letters, the solemn warning, "Touch Not The Cup." As Peter was not addicted to habits of intemperance, not even to looking on dandelion wine when it was pale yellow, we did not exactly see why Felicity should have selected such a device.

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Without referring to what he had believed in half an hour before, as though ashamed even to recall it, he asked for iodine to inhale in a bottle covered with perforated paper.

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Valparaiso -- Excursion to the Foot of the Andes -- Structure of the Land -- Ascend the Bell of Quillota -- Shattered Masses of Greenstone -- Immense Valleys -- Mines -- State of Miners -- Santiago -- Hot-baths of Cauquenes -- Gold-mines -- Grinding-mills -- Perforated Stones -- Habits of the Puma -- El Turco and Tapacolo -- Hummingbirds.

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This track was perforated by huge pot-shaped holes in the bed-rock, formed by the furious washing-around in them of boulders by the turbulent torrent which flows beneath all glaciers.

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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.