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

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

intransitive verb. To pass into or through something.

adjective. Having been perforated.

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

Synonyms Bore through, Pierce, etc. See penetrate.

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.

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.

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

transitive verb. 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.

adjective. Perforated.

verb. To pierce; to penetrate.

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

verb. pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance

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

adjective. 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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